All posts tagged "Joe Wilson"

A veteran politics reporter on Monday suggested who he believes could be the next person to seek the Senate vacancy left by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

Scott MacFarlane, chief Washington correspondent for MeidasTouch, told CNN anchor Brianna Keilar that since Graham was facing re-election in November, questions have surfaced over who could replace him — floating 78-year-old Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), who has been loyal to President Donald Trump.

In the interim, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster on Monday appointed Darline Graham Nordone, the senator's sister, to replace her brother after his unexpected death this weekend and serve the rest of his term through January 2027. ...

A Republican lawmaker known best for shouting "You lie!" was reportedly hospitalized Tuesday night after collapsing at an event in Washington, D.C.

Rep. Joe Wilson, 77, of South Carolina was taken to a hospital and receiving treatment, a congressional aide with knowledge of the situation told NBC News. The collapse came after he was present for House votes and was reportedly joking with reporters off the floor.

Wilson has represented South Carolina in the House since 2001 and gained notoriety after shouting “you lie” at President Barack Obama during a speech to a joint session of Congress in 2009....

WASHINGTON — Many Republicans on Capitol Hill are all but daring New York Judge Juan Merchan to lock Donald Trump up ahead of November.

After former President Donald Trump and Republican campaign committees saw a windfall of donations after the guilty verdict came down, the GOP base is enlivened and that’s only emboldening rank-and-file Republicans who are feeling bullish.

“I think it’s bulls—,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told Raw Story of the guilty verdict. “It’d be seen as election interference on steroids.” ...

WASHINGTON — A Republican House representative burst into laughter Tuesday when a Raw Story reporter asked him to comment on former President Donald Trump's remarks praising autocrats that included Adolf Hitler.

"You guys still paying attention to what Trump says?" Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) said with a giggle. "Oh my God ... journalists never learn."

Harris, a Freedom Caucus member whose ties to Trump include attendance at a meeting in 2020 to discuss keeping the former president in the White House, admitted that he does not listen to the words that come out of the leading Republican presidential candidate's mouth. ...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Raw Story that the biggest mistake the Republican Party made was not choosing a candidate firmly behind former President Donald Trump to run in the New York Third District special election.

Disgraced former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was expelled, and a new election was called, which Greene called their first mistake. It's a bad precedent to set to expel a member of Congress, she said.

"We shouldn't have lost that seat to begin with," she told Raw Story, meaning Santos. ...

In May, when police interrupted the Rushingbrook Children’s Choir performance of the U.S. National Anthem inside the U.S. Capitol, a viral video of the singing shut-down thrust the small group from Greenville, S.C., into an unexpected limelight.

It also prompted new performance opportunities for the children — including singing at a recent campaign rally for former President Donald Trump.

Now, the kids are slated to reprise in Washington, D.C., next month with an all-expenses-paid trip to the Capitol, sponsored by South Carolina’s congressional delegation, Raw Story has learned from David Rasbach, director of the Rushingbrook Children's Choir....