baby steps
https://rightwingnewshour.com/republican-defeats-obama-endorsed-candidate-deep-within-blue-territory/?utm
Local Republican beats national Democrats
Daniel Rickenmann, a local businessman and Columbia city council member, had an uphill battle from the beginning in his race to become the next mayor of Columbia.
Barack Obama , who recorded an endorsement for Devine shortly before the election, won by huge margins in the city both times he ran for president.
House Majority Whip James Clyburn, who played a key role in delivering South Carolina for the Biden campaign and reviving it when Biden was struggling against Bernie Sanders, also endorsed Devine.
Republicans have not even been trying to run candidates in the Columbia mayoral race in recent years; the Democrats have not been defeated there in decades.
Both sides apparently felt that Rickenmann was gaining momentum in the weeks before the election. The South Carolina GOP rushed to aid Rickenmann and Democrats enlisted Obama and Clyburn to support Devine.
Ultimately those big name endorsements did nothing for Devine, who lost the race by four points in an area which Biden had carried by nearly 10 times that percentage difference.
Conclusion- either democrats didn't vote or the blacks in Colombia voted republican. I am shocked that fraud wasn't triggered to save the democrat.