![]() ![]() ![]() “Even if it doesn’t contain a microchip, I could foresee the day, because right now you have to show your ID or your passport and here in South Carolina, we have to get that real ID just to fly commercially,” Stutts said on a conservative YouTube vlog at the time. Stutts has even claimed in an April interview that a potential vaccine for COVID-19 could possibly “contain a microchip” for the government to track its citizens. Stutts, the group’s chair, is a longtime critic of vaccinations, and has publicly discouraged people from wearing face masks during the coronavirus pandemic and spread the conspiracy theory that billionaire Bill Gates is working to reduce the human population. Mark Sanford to primary Graham after he voted to confirm Justice Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, and one speaker at a Greenville Tea Party rally that year made accused Graham of “trying to sell out your own countrymen” to avoid being outed.įor his part, Graham once relished his battles with the state’s most conservative activists, calling the inter-party skirmishes “more fun than any time I’ve been in politics,” but with polls showing Graham in a statistical dead heat with Harrison, the senator is scrambling to resolve those well-documented problems with voters who have largely moved from the Tea Party to Team MAGA-even though the group’s brand of politics couldn’t be less in sync with Graham’s own. ![]() Leaders of the state’s Tea Party chapters attempted to recruit then-Gov. During the Tea Party wave in 2010, Graham-once seen as one of the most mainstream members of the Republican Party-became one of the movement’s most loathed “RINOs,” or Republicans In Name Only. This ringing endorsement for Graham’s re-election-which included Michael LaPierre, who tried to primary Graham this year-amounts to a cease-fire between the Palmetto State’s most well-known elected official and a coterie of some of his most dedicated trolls. Sam Manley, a conservative podcaster, put the stakes of the race directly: “If you ever vote your way into socialism, you’ll have to shoot your way out.” Graham is in the race of his life,” said Stutts, introducing conservative activists who lambasted Harrison-or “Harris,” as several of them called him-for being a “Marxist-Leninist” who would impose socialism on South Carolina. “This is not a time for us to be squabbling over differences of opinion,” Pressley Stutts, chair of the Greenville Tea Party, said at an event on Wednesday afternoon, before introducing nearly a dozen grassroots conservative leaders “to stand tall” with Graham. ![]()
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