South Carolina Democrats expected to celebrate after failure of Trump-backed redistricting push

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democrats may be in a more celebratory mood than usual as they gather Friday in South Carolina, a state led almost entirely by Republicans. The party is holding events days after the GOP-led state Senate shot down an effort backed by President Donald Trump to redraw House district lines to help Republicans this fall. That move was aimed at ousting longtime Rep. Jim Clyburn , the state’s lone congressional Democrat and a party powerbroker who has been in office since 1993.

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