The story Tuesday night wasn’t much different than on recent election nights. Republicans in South Carolina swamped Democrats with a huge wave in 1994, taking over the House, and and again in 2000 taking over the Senate.

A red wave swept across South Carolina on Tuesday, with state Republicans up and down the ballot capitalizing on a dominant performance by President-elect Donald Trump. “Yesterday, Republicans all across our state added an exclamation point to what we already knew and that is that South Carolina is Trump country,

South Carolina voters defeated a GOP-backed proposal on Tuesday that seeks to block non-U.S. citizens from voting in elections in a move that critics have said is “completely unnecessary.” The measure would have amended the state’s constitution to allow “only” citizens to vote in elections,