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The American Party of South Carolina is a
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in the
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. Established in 2014, the party is active only in
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.


History

The American Party of South Carolina was founded by physician Oscar Lovelace and former
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Jim Rex Jim Rex (born November 21, 1941 in Toledo, Ohio) was the 16th South Carolina Superintendent of Education. He ran for the position in 2006 as a South Carolina Democratic Party, Democrat, against Karen Floyd, a South Carolina Republican Party, Repu ...
in 2014. According to Rex and Lovelace, their impetus in starting the new party was to present a
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alternative to the Republican Party and
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that could address perceived government dysfunction. Rex and Lovelace began collecting the 10,000 petition signatures required for formal party recognition under South Carolina state law during the 2013
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. Voter discontent with the
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, which coincided with the fair, helped invigorate an unusually robust level of interest in the proposed new party. In 2014, the first year of electoral activity for the party, it unsuccessfully ran four candidates for public office in that year's South Carolina elections. The same year, its youth wing, Young Americans, was established with an inaugural chapter at
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. The party's 2016 state convention was attended by 61 delegates from nine South Carolina counties, and nominated
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as its candidate for
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, as well as candidates for five other offices. As of 2016, the party said it hoped to expand beyond South Carolina and it registered with the
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the same year. On October 14, 2018 a group of independent state political organizations, including the American Party, joined together to create the Alliance Party. Jim Rex is the National Chair. In the 2018 South Carolina elections the party unsuccessfully ran thirteen candidates, one of whom was under a fusion vote with the Democratic Party, for public office. In the 2020 South Carolina elections the American Party, now affiliated with the Alliance Party, presidential candidate Roque "Rocky" De La Fuente Guerra received 1,862 votes, around 0.07%. The party unsuccessfully ran five other candidates for public office.


Platform

According to the party, it supports
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s,
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reform, and "attacking problems from the center instead of the left or the right".


See also

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Centrism Centrism is a political outlook or position involving acceptance or support of a balance of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy while opposing political changes that would result in a significant shift of society strongly to the l ...
*
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