NC & SC Results Thread

9:20pm: 100% is now reporting in SC-03. Duncan’s sporting a 3% or 2,100 vote lead over Cash, but still no call from the AP after a short delay, the AP has called it for Duncan.

9:00pm: Given that the Ark of the Covenant is in Arizona, Tim D’Annunzio can try his next congressional run there. AP calls NC-08 for Johnson.

8:57pm: Duncan continues to hold his lead over Cash in SC-03; this territory went for Cash narrowly by 0.4% in the first round. This is a swing of 3.7% to Duncan, who needs a swing of 2.3% to win. In NC-08, Johnson continues to whomp D’Annunzio 62-38.

8:47pm: AP calls SC-01 for Tim Scott. He will likely become the first black Republican in Congress since JC Watts left office in 2003.

8:40pm: It’s over for Rep. Bob Inglis – the AP calls it. Trey Gowdy has beaten him soundly. Inglis is the third House incumbent and fifth member of Congress to lose a primary/convention so far this cycle.

8:37pm: Man, maybe SSP HQ needs to take a ganja break this time! The two biggest races have been called (NC-Sen and SC-Gov), and NC-08, SC-01, and SC-04 all look like blowouts. And SC-03 isn’t exactly a barnburner. We may not have much real action until Utah starts coming in later tonight.

8:33pm: Really bad news for fans of Raiders of the Lost Ark: Tim D’Annunzio is getting smashed by Harold Johnson, 68-32, with about 18% reporting. This represents an almost 15% swing to Johnson, which means Timmy D might wind up with a smaller share than in the first round. Pretty pathetic, but if anyone could pull this off, he could.

8:31pm: The one real barnburner tonight might be SC-03, the seat being vacated by gubernatorial loser Gresh Barrett. Duncan leads Cash 52-48 with over half the vote in. This represents a nice swing toward Duncan from round one, though, so it might not wind up being this close in the end.

8:30pm: Yeah, it’s officially official – We Are Marshall. She’ll take on Richard Burr this fall.

8:29pm: Buncha people on Twitter are saying the AP has called NC-Sen for Elaine Marshall. Really gotta wonder what the DSCC was thinking here. Time for them to embrace her fully.

8:22pm: AP calls SC-Gov for Nikki Haley. She’ll face Dem state Sen. Vincent Sheheen in the fall. Unlike in SC-Sen, we definitely got the candidate we wanted in our primary.

8:19pm: Meanwhile, in SC-01, Tim Scott is cruising with a 73-27 lead with a quarter of the voted reporting. Hard to see him losing this one. I guess Paul Thurmond can go commiserate with Ethan Hastert.

8:17pm: With about 30% of the vote in, Nikki Haley is crushing Gresham Barrett 64-36. Gotta wonder what folks like Andre Bauer and the local Chamber of Commerce were thinking.

8:16pm: Terrible sign for Inglis – he’s down 60-40 in his purported “base” of Greenville. He was a dead man walking for the last couple of weeks. Tonight is just the grand finale.

8:11pm: 1% of the vote has trickled in in NC-08, and Harold Johnson leads Tim D’Annunzio 70-30. This represents a 13% swing to Johnson from the first round (based on the two-candidate share of the vote).

8:04pm: True to the Greenville v. Spartanburg divide in SC-04, the one precinct from Greenville in has closed this to 70-30 Gowdy.

8:02pm: Cash has retaken the lead in SC-03 over Duncan narrowly at 50.3-46.7, but this is territory that went for him 26-19 in the first round.

7:59pm: In NC-Sen, Elaine Marshall continues to sport her 64-36 lead over Cal Cunningham. This is territory that went for Marshall 39-30 in the first round. In SC-Gov, Haley’s lead is 62-38 over Barrett; this territory went for her 49-23 in the first round.

7:55pm: In SC-01, Scott’s lead remains an impressive 70-30 over Thrumond. Further west in SC-03, Duncan now has a 52-48 lead over Cash.

7:49pm: Marshall’s lead has ticked up slightly to 64-36 with 6% reporting in NC. Johnson is whomping D’Annunzio 75-25 with two precincts in.

7:47pm: Duncan’s now taken the lead in SC-03, a slim 89-vote lead over Cash.

7:42pm: 1% reporting in North Carolina now, Marshall is up on Cunningham 63-37.

7:30pm: We only have five precincts reporting in South Carolina, and Nikki Haley leads Gresham Barrett by 61-39. In SC-01, Tim Scott leads Paul Thurmond by 67-33, and ice cream truck driver businessman Richard Cash leads state Rep. Jeff Duncan by 54-46 with one precinct counted in SC-03. Trey Gowdy is also crushing Bob Inglis by 85-15 in the early vote.

Polls have now closed in South Carolina. (North Carolina will close at 7:30pm ET.) We’ll be using this thread to follow the returns.

RESULTS:

109 thoughts on “NC & SC Results Thread”

  7. They’ve just reported 2/3rds of their precincts. Marshall winning there 2-1.  

  8. She has 64% with 159/2763 precincts in, mostly on the strength of Wake County.

  9. NC needs to have earlier runoffs/crazy Republicans need to wait till after they win their primaries to go crazy. Look at Rand Paul, he knows how it’s done.

  15. Perhaps the strength of Marshall’s victory, if she continues to hold the current margin, could be a shocker.

    For Scott, the final margin will probably be a bit closer after Horry and Georgetown come in, although it’s certainly looking to be a comfortable victory for him. I am not too surprised, as this is a coastal South Carolina district – the same one that almost elected Ketner two years ago – that would presumably me more culturally moderate.

  16. Gowdy’s winning Greenville, Inglis’ base, handily.  Inglis is toast.

    And I wouldn’t read too much “moderation,” cultural or otherwise, into Scott’s win; he’s a serious wingnut. Indeed, no one should buy tonight’s certain GOP story line that Haley and Scott represent some sort of big tent party.    

  18. Not only is Tim Scott winning, William Randall is beating his better-financed opponent in NC-13, and if Bill Marcy wins in MS-02, they’ll have won three nominations.

  21. I think that she will be a good candidate for Democrats to hopefully take back this haunted seat. We have a great chance for victory, especially if Marshall can increase her fundraising. Campaign support from Bill Clinton of course would not hurt either.

  26. Has any scandal-free incumbent ever lost a primary by this margin? He’s running like “some dude.”

  27. I don’t know if Sheheen is really the candidate we wanted to win.  He won mainly because Jim Rex didn’t seem to run much of a campaign.  So it was all Sheheen all the time.

    But what about now?  Sheheen seems to have disappeared.  I would’ve expected him to be having high profile campaign events right after his win, so that the Rep primary didn’t push him out of the spotlight.  But I’ve seen zilch.

  30. predicted Thurmond.  You guys must really have a negative feeling about the South Carolina GOP electorate.

    I wouldn’t believe all the stories about the reason why McCain and Romney lost SC in 2000 and 2008, respectively.  It wasn’t based on religion anymore than Huckabee’s failure in New Hampshire was based on religion.

  31. Four incumbents (3R, 1D) were forced into runoffs.

    One seat is finally all-in, and the GOP incumbent won 57-43 after having finished ahead 46-33.

    Another is being Inglissed, one is really close and the Dem is hard to tell.

  33. William Randall won in NC-12, and Bill Marcy has just been called the winner in MS-02. Not that it matters in November, of course.

  36. What a big disappointment. Guess all t’at hype wasn’t worth the paper t’was written on. Losing by 19 points wasn’t even close. Maybe Marshall just got lucky because this is supposed to be one o them ‘year of the females’, t’ain’t it?

    Judging from Marshall’s weakness as a candidate, at this point it looks like Richard Burr may be on the way to be breaking the dreaded ‘one term only’ curse on his seat there.  

  38. Initially i was surprised by size of Marshall’s victory, but only until i noticed a patheticaly low turnout in NC. Less then 160.000 voters came to Democratic runoff in whole state, more then 2 times less then in neighbouring South Caroline for Republican gubernatorial runoff. Taking into account that North Carolina’s population is about 2 times of SC – that speaks volumes. Especially – about extremely low interest of potential Democratic voters in this year elections. On the other hand, as SC shows, Republican electorate is very motivated and quite ready to go to the polls. All that bodes ill (so far) for Democratic chances in November.

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