MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — South Carolina state Representative Russell Fry — an ambitious young conservative from Surfside Beach — trounced U.S. Rep. Tom Rice in his bid for Congress on Tuesday, snagging a re-election win from a five-term incumbent who had committed Republicans’ one cardinal sin: crossing Donald Trump.
It was Rice’s vote to impeach the former president last year after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol that angered GOP voters across his district, which gave two-thirds of its vote to Trump in 2020.
Unofficial results on Tuesday showed Fry winning 51% of the vote in the GOP primary, enough to beat Rice and avoid a run-off election against him.
