Russell Fry, a Republican who toppled five-term U.S. Rep Tom Rice in South Carolina's 7th House district with backing from former President Donald Trump, has won election to Congress.
Fry, a state representative, handily defeated Democrat challenger Daryl Scott in the general election. The incumbent Rice had become a focus of Trump's scorn for the congressman's impeachment vote after the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riots.
It marks the first time in 10 years that voters in the district will send a new elected official to Washington, D.C.
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