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Then-Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee speaks with moderators at an economic forum, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford) **FILE**

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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley speaks to the crowd at the Kemp Forum, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)

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Concerned Student 1950 member Ayanna Poole uses a megaphone while leading a "We Are Not Afraid" march including local and regional campuses Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 on Rollins Street on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, Mo. (Daniel Brenner/Columbia Daily Tribune via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

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Concerned Student 1950 member Ayanna Poole uses a megaphone while leading a "We Are Not Afraid" march including local and regional campuses Friday, Nov. 13, 2015 on Rollins Street on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, Mo. (Daniel Brenner/Columbia Daily Tribune via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

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University of Missouri system President Tim Wolfe announces his resignation from office on Nov. 9, 2015, during a UM System Board of Curators meeting in University Hall at the campus in Columbia, Mo. Wolfe has been under fire for his handling of race complaints that had threatened to upend the football season and moved one student to go on a hunger strike. (Justin L. Stewart/Columbia Missourian via AP)

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University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe walks away after speaking to members of Concerned Student 1950 on Nov. 3, 2015 outside University Hall on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, Mo. (Daniel Brenner/Columbia Daily Tribune via AP)

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An honor guard from the South Carolina Highway patrol lowers the Confederate battle flag as it is removed from the Capitol grounds Friday, July 10, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley speaks during a ceremony where she signed a bill into law, Thursday, July 9, 2015, at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. The law enables the removal of the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds more than 50 years after the rebel banner was raised to protest the civil rights movement. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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A Confederate battle flag flies in front of the South Carolina statehouse Wednesday, July 8, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. The House is expected to debate a measure Wednesday that would remove the flag from the Capitol grounds. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

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The South Carolina State House is seen through a Confederate flag held along Gervais Street, Monday, July 6, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. (Gerry Melendez/The State via AP)

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FILE - In this June 19, 2015 file photo, the Confederate flag flies near the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. The General Assembly returns Monday, July 6, 2015, to discuss what to do with the rebel flag that has flown over some part of the Statehouse for more than 50 years. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt, File)

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A Confederate flag flies near the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

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Mariangeles Borghini holds a burned Confederate flag during a rally to take down the Confederate flag at the South Carolina Statehouse, Saturday, June 20, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. Rep. Doug Brannon, R-Landrum, said it's past time for the Confederate flag to be removed from South Carolina's Statehouse grounds after nine people were killed at the Emanuel AME Church shooting. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

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State Sen. Vincent Sheheen gets emtional as he sits next to the draped desk of state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, Thursday at the Statehouse in Columbia, South Carolina. (Associated Press photographs)

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In this June 3, 2014 photo, state Sen. Clementa Pinckney speaks at the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. Pinckney was killed, Wednesday, June 17, 2015, in a shooting at an historic black church in Charleston, S.C. The shooter is still at large. (Grace Beahm/The Post and Courier via AP)

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Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to Frederic Hunt, minister of the First Calvary Baptist Church, Wednesday, May 27, 2015, at The Main Street Bakery, May 27, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro) (credit)

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lead in: Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to South Carolina House Democratic Women's Caucus and Women's Council, Wednesday, May 27, 2015, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Richard Shiro) (vtredit)

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Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in Columbia, S.C., on May 27, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Republican presidential candidate and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during a campaign stop at the South Carolina Military Museum, Monday in Columbia, South Carolina.