June 14, 2022: What Trump is watching in today’s South Carolina primary

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🗓️ 14 June 2022

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It’s a Tuesday in 2022, which means it’s time for yet another stop in Donald Trump's post-presidency revenge tour against incumbent Republicans he thinks have wronged him. Today will see two high-profile GOP primaries in South Carolina, where Reps. Tom Rice and Nancy Mace face Trump-backed opponents. Though there are similarities between the two — Rice was one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the Jan. 6 insurrection, while Mace, a freshman then on her third day in Congress, went on TV to slam Trump for lying about the 2020 election — today will be a case study in the divergent tactics the two have taken in responding to Trump’s attacks, as NYT’s Maya King noted Monday Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Presented by Amazon.
0:01.9	Hey, good morning, Playbookers, and Rogan Winovalin.
0:04.6	Another Tuesday, another set of high-profile GOP primaries.
0:08.4	We'll tell you what to watch for in South Carolina and Nevada today.
0:11.8	It's your Politico Playbook Daily briefing.
0:17.9	It's another Tuesday in 2022, which means it's time for yet another stop.
0:22.7	In Donald Trump's post-presidency revenge store, against incumbent Republicans, he thinks, have wronged him.
0:28.6	Today we'll see two high-profile GOP primaries in South Carolina,
0:32.2	who are representatives Tom Rice and Nancy Mace face Trump-backed opponents.
0:36.3	Though there are similarities between the two, Rice was one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump after the January 6th insurrection, while Mace, a freshman then on her third day in Congress, went on TV to slam Trump for lying about the 2020 election.
0:49.8	Today will be a case study in the divergent tactics the two have taken in responding to Trump's
0:54.8	attacks, as Maya King from the New York Times noted on Monday. Rice's approach lean into the criticism
1:00.4	in a dispatch from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Politico colleague Ali Mutnick reports in today's
1:05.7	playbook on the backlash Rice has endured from Trump supporters, angry over his continued critiques of the former president,
1:13.2	ranging from death threats to shouts of, quote, traitor, from passing car windows to an official censure by the South Carolina Republican Party,
1:20.3	a copy of which, by the way, Rice has hanging in his office.
1:23.6	Rice's challenger, State Representative Russell Fry, was endorsed by Trump in February and has made much of his campaign about Rice's challenger, State Representative Russell Frye, was endorsed by Trump in February, and
1:28.1	has made much of his campaign about Rice's impeachment vote.
1:32.0	Even so, Rice is not changing his tune when it comes to Trump in January 6th.
1:36.3	He told Ali, quote, I think that was one of the worst things, if not the worst, that a president
1:40.7	has ever done in terms of attacking the Constitution and separation of powers.
1:45.4	I just couldn't stand for that.
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