Former President Donald Trump has praised McKissick, but Wood, who holds the belief that the November contest was a scam, accuses McKissick of not doing "enough to have the election investigated and reversed based on fraud and illegality."
"That makes him what I think people call a RINO Republican, Republican in Name Only, meaning that he will embrace President Trump, he will get his endorsements, he will take advantage of what Trump does for South Carolina because they had really good numbers in 2020. McKissick tries to take credit for it, the credit belongs to Donald Trump," Wood told the Washington Examiner during an interview on Saturday at the Health and Freedom Convention in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
"When President Trump needed his help to undo a fraudulent election, Drew McKissick was missing in action. So was Lindsey Graham," he asserted, aiming at one of South Carolina's two U.S. senators, who is a Republican.
Wood went to the Palmetto State from Georgia in February and announced his endeavor to run for the South Carolina GOP chairman position on March 29. The election to lead the state's Republican Party is slated for May.
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"The reason that certain members of the party asked me if I would run is that the people in the party have no control over what the party establishment is doing," Wood said.
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"Lin Wood is a carpetbagging RINO who’s been in South Carolina for two months," McKissick said in a statement.
"Any suggestion or accusation of cheating or not being a true Republican is just a strategy out of the slick trial lawyer’s handbook–a trial lawyer who donated to Obama twice and supported candidates endorsed by Planned Parenthood," he added. "Trump endorsed my reelection campaign and that speaks for itself."
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Trump backed McKissick in 2018 and did so again this year on March 30, the day after Wood announced his bid to challenge him.
Trump said, "Drew fought all the way to the Supreme Court to defend our voting laws—and WON," referring to an election-related case. “He will continue to grow the party and help Conservatives get elected in the Great State of South Carolina," the former president added.
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Wood, who was stuck in his 2020 election fraud litigation and is under investigation over whether he illegally voted in Georgia, does not appear interrupted by Trump's endorsement of McKissick over him, standing by his loyalty to the former president.
"I believe Donald Trump is a genius," Wood told the Washington Examiner on Saturday.
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