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Associated with the talking points. you know, government needs to understand the value of a dollar and understand the fact it's not what you spend, it's how you sfend. it's the fact that they need to be accountable for all that they do. we need term limits, not only in south carolina. we need them on the federal level. it's about making sure the people are in control again and elected officials remember who it is they work for. >> let me ask you this, will the republican party in south carolina now be behind you? because to me, the most interesting part of this entire campaign was that the rep...

We're here live at the white house, awaiting the arrival of general mcchrystal. history-making night. we've got the rundown. in south carolina, rising republican star nikki haley easily defeated gresham barrett. she overcame allegations of marital infidelity, ethnic slurs from a state senator and is now the first woman in south carolina to win a major party's nomination for governor and is going to probably be the next governor. >> to our friends in the media, across this state and across this country who are analyzing what this victory means and what barriers this may have broken, i will tell...

Any distractions. >> you know, she did something that many people have tried to do in south carolina. she brought the sanfords back together. both governor mark sanford and jenny sanford are both haley supporters. mark sanford on monday took a vacation without informing his second in command. haley opponent gresham barrett joins kay bailey hutchison as incumbents in congress who have lost primaries for governor. he voted for the wall street bailout. speaking of the bailout vote. elsewhere in south carolina, another incumbent bites the dust. trey gowdy crushed representative bob ingliss. incumb...

Nikki haley won the republican gubernatorial nomination in south carolina last night. haley easily beat u.s. congressman gresham barrett in their runoff election. in other results, six-term republican u.s. congressman bob inglis became the fifth incumbent to lose this year. he lost to prosecutor trey gowdy, and tim scott is in line to become the first republican african-american congressman in south carolina in over a century when he beat the son of former segregationist strom thurmond. scott is a big favorite in the general, and if he wins, he'll be the republican party's first black lawmaker...

captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning. i'm matt lauer. >> and i'm meredith vieira. all eyes are on the white house this morning and that face-to-face meeting between president obama and general stanley mcchrystal. >> what seems to be ironic, general mcchrystal was put in charge in afghanistan in part because he wasn't afraid to speak his mind. but now it's his words that could come back to haunt him. the controversy is over disparaging remarks about president obama and top administration officials made by general m...