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Day 10: Thank you South Carolina

 Day 10: last day. We made it. Ten long days in South Carolina bouncing between Columbia, Aiken, Irmo, Lexington and Charleston. Thank you to our guest speakers who took time out of their busy schedules to come talk to twenty-four eager students. Thank you to the South Carolina Democratic Party (SCDP) for hosting us Democratic interns. Your kindness, generosity, and (southern) hospitality is very appreciated and recognized. Thank you to Randi Doan and Richie Marini for being our incredible supervisors. You were there for any questions we had, kept us going, and continued celebrating what Road to the Whitehouse is all about. Last but most certainly not least, thank you to Dr. Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan. This prestigious, once-in-a-lifetime program would not be possible without you. Thank you for letting me about a part of it and inviting me to be a guest speaker on WUSF with you (WUSF link). I will take everything I have learned with me to my post-graduate studies and career. 

As I go back to St. Pete, Florida, I reflect on how the outcome of the future primaries will look. Will Trump win the majority of the votes? Will the General Election be a repeat of the 2020 cycle? Will we be once again looking to the swing states to determine the future of the presidency for the next four years? Will Georgia go blue once more? So many questions trample my mind and I even think to the 2028 cycle and who may be the potential candidates then. So much uncertainty in the political realm, but what I do know is that South Carolina as first-in-the-nation in the sequential nominating process, has forever changed the future of primaries and caucuses. 

Thank you for coming along with me on this journey and reading my blog. See you soon. 


Virtually yours, Lana Sleiman💞


Black History Month Parade - posted by @aikendemocrats on IG



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