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Henry McMaster (Republican Party) is the Governor of South Carolina. He assumed office on January 24, 2017. His current term ends on January 11, 2023.

McMaster (Republican Party) is running for re-election for Governor of South Carolina. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 8, 2022. He advanced from the Republican primary on June 14, 2022.

McMaster replaced South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) in 2017, when she joined the Trump administration as the ambassador to the United Nations. At the time, McMaster was serving as the lieutenant governor of South Carolina, having been elected in 2014.[1][2][3]

He also served two terms as attorney general of South Carolina from 2003 to 2011. McMaster was chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party from 1993 to 2002.

Before holding elected office, McMaster was the U.S. attorney for the District of South Carolina. He was the first U.S. attorney appointed by President Ronald Reagan (R).

McMaster was born in Columbia, South Carolina, on May 27, 1947. He received a B.A. in history from the University of South Carolina in 1969 and a J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1973. He also served in the U.S. Army Reserve until 1975, when he was honorably discharged. After graduating from law school, he worked as a legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond (R) and as an attorney in private practice.

He was appointed a U.S. attorney in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan (R). From 1993 to 2002, he was chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party. He was first elected attorney general of South Carolina in 2002 and served two terms. He then worked on the South Carolina Ports Authority before being elected lieutenant governor of South Carolina in 2014. After South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) left office to join the Trump administration, McMaster became governor of the state in 2017.

Joe Cunningham (Democratic Party) is running for election for Governor of South Carolina. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 8, 2022. He advanced from the Democratic primary on June 14, 2022.

Cunningham (Democratic Party) was a member of the U.S. House, representing South Carolina's 1st Congressional District. He assumed office on January 3, 2019. He left office on January 3, 2021.

Joe Cunningham was born in Kentucky. Cunningham earned a B.S. in engineering from Florida Atlantic University and a law degree from Northern Kentucky University. His career experience includes working as a lawyer and in ocean engineering with government agencies and environmental groups. Cunningham has been affiliated with the Charleston Lawyers Club, Charleston County Bar Association, South Carolina Young Lawyers Division, and the American Bar Association.

U.S. House of Representative’s for South Carolina’s 1st District (2019-2020):
Cunningham was assigned to the following committees:
• House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
• Committee on Natural Resources

- https://ballotpedia.org/Joe_Cunningham

Clemson Forward seeks to provide a much-needed forum for growth, learning, and voter education in an era of increasing radicalization, demonization, division, and polarization.

Our motto, that of our nation's, 'E Pluribus Unum,' exemplifies and sums up our mission and cause - "Out of many, one."
America's strength has always been found in its diversity of belief, ideology, opinion, race, creed, and religion as the world's great 'melting pot.'

As Thomas Jefferson, one of our most influential Founding Fathers and second President of the United States, put so poignantly in a letter penned to John Tyler Washington - "No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth."

As the 'great experiment in democracy' that America was and is for the world, we must always leave our minds, hearts, and ears open to those we disagree with if we are ever to survive and function as a diverse and functioning democracy.

That begins with listening and understanding those you feel may be diametrically opposed to your sense of direction the nation should head in. We should begin to see ourselves united in the commonality of our cause and national identity than the political party divisions in opinion of approach.

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Other Forward Policies:

• Instituting 18-year term limits for members of Congress.
• To establish a new cabinet-level Department of Technology.
• Support civic juries and advocate for a "citizens' portal” to make accessing government provided resources simpler and more easily accessible.
• Support data as a property right.
• An economy based on "human-centered capitalism", the enactment of universal basic income, and support for alternative forms of measuring economic progress.
• Automatic tax filing.
• The implementation of a universal health care system.
• Public finance reform in the form of democracy dollars.
• Encouraging Forwardists to maintain their membership in the Democratic and Republican parties as to not disenfranchise them by leaving them unable to vote in party primaries. As a consequence, Forward plans to endorse candidates from both major parties, third parties, as well as independents who advocate for the core values rather than field their own.