The South Carolina Senate race between Darline Graham and Ralph Norman will be very interesting to watch as the runoff date arrives soon, August 25th.
Darline Graham is supported by President Trump, the NRSCC, the professional republican class and the new endorsement from the 3rd place candidate Russell Fry. Additionally, Darline Graham has been endorsed by Senator Lisa Murkowski, Senator Tim Scott and other very well-known Republican brand names.
Mrs Graham has also picked up a $1 million Super-PAC donation from the leftist “Invest in Tomorrow Coalition” a clean energy and climate change advocacy group. They will be running ads against Ralph Norman.
That said, CTH has a strong hunch that Ralph Norman is going to win. There’s an internal poll showing Norman with a 12-point advantage (52/40); however, that’s not the strongest indicator.
A very unscientific review of voter sentiment visible on social media reflects a profound rejection of the Lindsey Graham legacy vote. While it is entirely possible those voices are just more algorithmically visible than Darline Graham supporters, there sure are a lot of South Carolina republican voters willing to support Ralph Norman over Graham.
It’s weird because no one seems overly enthusiastic for either candidate but voting Norman over Graham appears to be the least bad option. Darline Graham’s record working for leftist NGOs has many people rejecting her as an option.
What are your thoughts?
It is possible this race may be in the loss column for President Trump’s endorsement record.
Here in NH we call this a real shit situation.
It’s hard to have any sympathy though because they all could have chosen a real Republican candidate and they chose Lindsay’s sister thinking it’s her turn.. and for no reason at all other than that.
This is certainly not the best way to choose your representation while your nation is at war.
It’s all based on emotions. Darline is the emotional pick. So many go the emotional route versus the common sense way.
If you tell a liberal that you are headed to Planned Parenthood to get an abortion they will applaud you. If you tell them you are taking your pregnant dog to the vet to get the puppies aborted they will scream murder.
I will let SC voters decide this one. Hopefully she is not squishy like Collins and Murkowski once she is in and more like Marsha. Hopefully he is not like McConnell or any of the other secret RINOs that just infuriate me and more like Rick Scott who I feel is definitely MAGA
Yep, leaving it up to the SC voters is how it goes. Funny though, how many have piled on to support her without knowing anything about her, except that she was Lindsey’s sister.
The Rolling Stones had a good song for this situation – “Sympathy for the Devil.” Which is always in the details.
Rick Scott??? former Florida Governor??? The same Rick Scott that bowed to obama’s demands and ordered Bondi to prosecute Zimmerman even though the local Sheriff and the local Police Chief investigated and determined that Zimmerman was innocent because he was defending himself???
And the same Rick Scott that called a special session for new gun control laws after Parkland.
Welcome to FL 🚩 laws.
Norman here
It depends on what Clyburn wants.
That how it goes in our state.
I despise the practice of legacy seats in the House and the Senate. It’s the peoples’ seats, not politicians and their families.
Norman has fewer RINO credentials than Graham with the glaring exception of endorsing Nikki Haley for President in 2024.
How anyone billed as “the most conservative” voice in Congress could justify such an action without calling into question his true leaning is difficult to swallow.
Supporting a legacy candidate who venerated her brother’s careeer and vowed to carry on his policies however, is even more distasteful. President Trump’s major weakness in his second term continues to be an often misguided personal loyalty in endorsing legacy candidates (often for those who have no such reciprocal sentiments for him) instead of decisions founded in what’s really best in the long run.
Bad choices. As always. Norman for the shortest duration of puking while pulling the lever.
No more Graham crackers!
Just as Fox News works as controlled opposition for the democrat party, Lindsey Graham worked his republican senate seat as controlled opposition for the democrat party. Sister Darline appears to be poised and ready to pick up the mantle where her brother left off.
What’s happening in this South Carolina Senate race is yet another example in the long chain of abuses inflicted on the American voters with the passing of the 17th Amendment. Within the South Carolina Senate there are forty six state senators, any one of which being exponentially more qualified to fill Lindsey’s loafers than his sister.
I could not care less about a Trump endorsement at this point. I disliked Grahmnesty & his BFF McShame.
So vote for Ralph, imo.
SSDD
Upstate SC here…I haven’t talked to one person that is voting Darline. Hopefully, Trump does get the L here. He made a mistake here for sure.