{"id":22636,"date":"2026-05-13T19:17:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mcmaster-plans-to-call-special-session-to-redraw-south-carolina-house-map\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T19:17:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:17:51","slug":"mcmaster-plans-to-call-special-session-to-redraw-south-carolina-house-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mcmaster-plans-to-call-special-session-to-redraw-south-carolina-house-map\/","title":{"rendered":"McMaster plans to call special session to redraw South Carolina House map"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>South Carolina GOP Gov. Henry McMaster is expected to announce a special session on redistricting, teeing up the state legislature to pass a Republican gerrymander that would almost certainly cost Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn his seat in this year\u2019s midterms.<\/p>\n<p>Clyburn is the sole Democrat in South Carolina\u2019s House delegation; the new map would dismantle his district, leaving the state with 7 likely red seats and no Democratic-leaning ones.<\/p>\n<p>McMaster\u2019s plan \u2014 confirmed by four people familiar with the decision, who were granted anonymity to share private details \u2014 is a reversal of his position <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/politics\/mcmaster-special-session-redistricting-congressional-map-sc\/article_c3ab841e-7bf6-458a-95bb-09b23b310ca9.html\" target=\"_blank\">earlier this month<\/a> and follows pressure from President Donald Trump and his allies to gerrymander the state.<\/p>\n<p>The looming special session comes after five Republican state senators voted with Democrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/12\/south-carolina-redistricting-vote-fails-00917584\" target=\"_blank\">block a measure<\/a> that would have allowed them to redraw South Carolina\u2019s districts this cycle without a call from McMaster.<\/p>\n<p>The special session will allow lawmakers to pass a new map with a simple majority, making it likely that it will advance given the GOP\u2019s margins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina GOP Gov. Henry McMaster is expected to announce a special session on redistricting, teeing up the state legislature to pass a Republican gerrymander that would almost certainly cost Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn his seat in this year\u2019s midterms. Clyburn is the sole Democrat in South Carolina\u2019s House delegation; the new map would dismantle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}