UPDATE: Graham Wins – AP Calls the Race
The special election in South Carolina to fill the seat of Senator Lindsey Graham is today. The polls close at 7:00pm ET in South Carolina and for President Trump there is a significant stake.
The opposition media are hoping that Ralph Norman defeats President Trump endorsed candidate Darline Graham so they can write about articles about how Trump has lost his political strength and now suffers election embarrassment. President Trump not only endorsed Darline Graham, but he also held a rally for her last Friday and instructed his SuperPAC to fund her campaign heavily.
No one is sure how this special election is going to turn out. What I find interesting is the lack of publicly displayed and discussed polling over the past week. That doesn’t mean polls were not conducted, it only means conducted polls were never made public. This one will be super interesting to watch unfold this evening.
NYT Election Results Here
AP Election Results Here
Should Darline Graham win she retains the entire staff of her deceased brother, Lindsey Graham, who have been guiding her as an interim appointed senator. The South Caroline old guard GOP also has a stake in this race as the professionally republican political class are not very supportive of President Trump and the MAGA coalition.
Consider this an open discussion thread for anything that relates to the special election and South Carolina politics. There is also voting in primary voting in Georgia and Oklahoma. We will pin this thread to the top of the page until the final results are complete.
At the end of the day, Norman got spanked. Beat by a complete political novice by over 5 points.
So…..let’s hope this rookie can fend of the Commie the Dems are putting up. And you can bet that they will pour a lot of $$$ into what they reasonably see as a possible flip.
Especially if she agrees to a debate……
She would be better off acting like a dem candidate and say she won’t debate without concessions.
wasn’t going to vote until I saw nikki endorse Norman, I voted Graham.
Tim Scott and merkowski endorsed graham…
Graham’s giving a good victory speech. On FNC
It’s on Cspan 1.
FNC dropped it
Huzzah for Pres Trump! Hope (I know right)…..hope the political capital was well spent.
Who knows, an outside the GOP circle is a good thing.
Oklahoma Governor’s race:
84% of votes counted
Mike Mazzei
GOP
157,279 50.5%
Gentner Drummond
GOP
154,110 49.5%
86% of votes counted
Mike Mazzei
GOP
163,218 50.4%
Gentner Drummond
GOP
160,384 49.6%
Update:
90% of votes counted
Mike Mazzei
GOP
169,478 50.4%
Gentner Drummond
GOP
166,779 49.6%
For the first time in my life, I will vote Democrat, I CANNOT vote for Graham. I won’t. She is absolutely, spectacularly dumb.
What does the Democrat you will be voting for support? Sometimes (I would say most of the time) dumb is preferable to Democrat.
Terribly young are you?
That’s real genius. Vote for the commie instead. Were you dropped on your head as a child?
I am not crazy about another Graham. However, she is not dumb. She just won a Primary race and the run-off against a formidable opponent. Equally important, what does her Democrat opponent stand for? Is there a vote history? If so, what is it?
And the D-Rats are not dumb and evil? LOL
This will age poorly.
President Trump and his family are giving their lives to this country. That is not an exaggeration. He asks us to support Graham and you say this?
lol This is one endorsement that I believe we will regret after Trump is out of office, if she wins the general. Trump was “giving his life to this country” when he endorsed Lindsey, but that was also a bad choice.
Believe it or not, for all the good he’s done for the country, Trump is not always right.
J
Terribly over emotional reaction .
In her Victory Speech, Graham described her Dem opponent.
Sounded like a DSA lunatic.
Also, what you makes you think she will be anything like Lindsey? We know almost nothing about this person.
The one thing we can expect tho, is she will probably be voting with Trump for as long as he’s in office. Which is probably a good thing.
Hopefully you’ll calm down and get a grip about this after a good nite’s sleep.
Ugh.
In the end this was South Carolina’s decision and there is not much the outsiders can do.