There's a price for having the country's top-two politicians come visit.

Being a farmer is hard enough. But imagine trying to figure out on the fly how to cultivate a crop not legally grown in South Carolina since at least World War II and bankrolling the experiment yourself with no ability to get insurance in case it flops. That's what it's like to grow hemp in this inaugural year of South Carolina's pilot program.

Two prominent South Carolina Republicans publicly voiced displeasure with President Donald Trump's performance in a joint press conference Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

Republican Katie Arrington thanked supporters and urged Republicans to stand together, while admitting she ran as "an outsider in my own party." She then took aim at her Democratic opponent Joe Cunningham and veered into policy positions, specifically her stance on offshore drilling.

Here's the latest round of congressional fundraising disclosures. 

A South Carolina Democrat has more than five times more cash on hand than his Republican challenger, an eyebrow-raiser in a congressional district long-considered a GOP-stronghold.