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KRT US NEWS STORY SLUGGED: ELECTION KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY RICH GLICKSTEIN/THE STATE (November 2) COLUMBIA, SC -- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and his wife, Debbie DeMint, celebrate in Columbia, South Carolina, while waiting for Democratic challenger Inez Tenenbaum to concede the South Carolina Senate race on November 2, 2004. (cdm) 2004
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KRT US NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SENATE-REPUBLICANS KRT PHOTO BY CHUCK KENNEDY/KRT (NOVEMBER 15) WASHINGTON, DC -- Senate Republican Campaign Committee Chairman George Allen (R-Va.) holds a news conference to introduce the seven newly elected Republican senators including Senators-elect Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.) (left) presented each new Senator elect with a football showing their vote percentages as score. Allen and the new senators also discuss the elections and the Senate Republican majority. (cwk) 2004
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KRT STAND ALONE PHOTOGRAPH BY CHUCK KENNEDY/KRT (January 18) Sen. Jim DeMint, with his wife Debbie Henderson, join Vice President Dick Cheney in re-enacting being sworn in on Tuesday, January 4, 2005. The official swearing in takes place in the Senate Chamber and is then re-enacted for photographs in the Old Senate Chamber in the U.S. Capitol. (gsb) 2005
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KRT STAND ALONE PHOTO SLUGGED: DEMINT BY CHUCK KENNEDY/KRT (April 21) Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) photographed on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Thursday, April 7, 2005. (lde) 2005
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KRT US NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SCOTUS-NOMINEE KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY CHUCK KENNEDY/KRT (August 15) Judge John G. Roberts, President Bush's choice to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court meets Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) in Washington, Friday, July 29, 2005. Roberts visits with key Senators during his confirmation campaign on Capitol Hill to affirm Republican Senate support and overcome Democrats' fears that he would push the nation's highest court far to the right on abortion and other polarizing issues. (lde) 2005
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KRT US NEWS STORY SLUGGED: SCOTUS-ALITO KRT PHOTO BY CHUCK KENNEDY/KRT (November 30) Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito during a meeting with Sen. Jim DeMint, (R-SC) in DeMint's office on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005 in Washington, D.C. (lde) 2005
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KRT US NEWS STAND ALONE PHOTO KRT PHOTO BY CHUCK KENNEDY/KRT (December 1) Senators Lindsey Graham and Jim DeMint (R-SC) outside the Senate Floor in the US Capitol, November 17, 2005. (lde) 2005
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Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) flanked by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) talk on port security and legislative schedule before brake with reporters following party policy luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, September 12, 2006. (Chuck Kennedy/MCT)
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Tommy's Ham House in Greenville, South Carolina is a frequent hangout for county GOP groups. About 125 people turned out to hear Sen. Jim DeMint, who has become a leading critic of the immigration bill in Congress that would grant legal status to 12 million undocumented workers. DeMint greets the crowd before the question-answer session, Wednesday, May 30, 2007. (Tim Dominick/The State.MCT).
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U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) speaks to republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney during a campaign stop at the Sea Breeze Marina in Charleston, South Carolina, on Wednesday, January 16, 2008. (Jeff Blake/The State/MCT)
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Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) speaks at a Tea Party, an anti-tax rally, in Columbia, South Carolina, on July 4, 2009. (Tim Dominick/The State/MCT)
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Sen. Jim DeMint was one of three panelists for a Labor Day question and answer forum at the Columbia Metropolitican Convention Center in Columbia, South Carolina, Monday, September 5, 2011. Republican candidates Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney attended the event. (Kim Kim Foster-Tobin/The State/MCT)
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