So many in our SC Republican Party lost a good friend, Gerri Suggs McDaniel. 

Gerri and I fought like a cat and dog might for years (though we remained friends and cohorts for about 10+ years behind the scenes). 

When I made the concrete decision last year after running @VivekGRamaswamy’s SC apparatus—my GOP candidate of choice who left the race—to back President @realDonaldTrump she was the FIRST person to call me from the SC Trump Team. (She was with Trump from the very beginning and she made sure everybody knew it.)

She said Vivek would be her second pick, a high honor, as she was picky. 

She knew politics was a game of addition and I loved her spirit. Any meeting I ever attended, I could always go give Gerri a hug. She’d tell me I was full of crap and I’d tell her she was full of crap, we’d laugh, then go do our own thing.

I miss people like Gerri so much because she was old-school and hard but approachable. 

RIP, Gerri, our good friend. This is a photo I found of her at the RNC convention last year, and I’m so glad we got to hang out and have a great time in Milwaukee.