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At a private meeting, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley urged fellow Republicans to remove the flag.

The flag debate is the center of the state’s political focus because of the June 17 church shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston that left nine people dead, including the pastor of the church, Clementa Pinckney, who was also a state senator.

The pastor, state senator Clementa Pinckney, was among the dead and the shooting suspect, Dylann Roof, was shown in photographs brandishing the flag as a symbol of hate.