In case you missed it, a frontrunner has emerged in the race for the Republican nomination in South Carolina’s first congressional district. Mount Pleasant, S.C. town councilwoman Kathy Landing jumped back into this contest in a big way over the holiday weekend, launching a television commercial during Saturday’s football game between defending national champion Clemson University and its arch-rival, the University of South Carolina. “Our Congressman filled his campaign coffers with money from Adam Schiff then voted for the impeachment inquiry,” Landing stated in the ad. Bigger picture, the first district is demographically evolving … although it did back Trump by more than 13 percentage points in the most recent presidential election. Sanford represented the first district in congress from 1995-2001 (when it spanned from Charleston, S.C. up the coast) and again from 2013-2019.