‘Trump’s farmer’ wins nomination for SC agriculture commissioner

By: Jessica Holdman

Outlets: South Carolina Daily Gazette

Published: June 24, 2026

Words: 719

Last Updated: 4 weeks, 1 day ago

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COLUMBIA — The candidate who calls himself “President Trump’s farmer in South Carolina” easily won the GOP nomination to become the state’s next agriculture commissioner.

Cody Simpson won with a lopsided 63% of votes over Danny Ford II, the son of the legendary football coach of Clemson’s 1981 national championship. Ford, whose crops include hemp, touted his first-hand understanding of the plant. But he said it was a crisis at his family’s Upstate cattle …

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