Clean Energy Super PAC Backs Graham's SC Senate Primary Win
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- Darline Graham won Tuesday's South Carolina Republican Senate primary, defeating Rep. Ralph Norman, with both President Trump and the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition (ITC) celebrating the outcome.
- Invest in Tomorrow Coalition (ITC), a clean energy super PAC financed by a solar entrepreneur, backed Graham's campaign and is touting the victory as its fifth Republican primary win.
- Graham is the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, positioning her as a notable political figure in her own right in South Carolina politics.
- President Trump publicly celebrated Graham's primary win, aligning the sitting president with a clean-energy-aligned challenger against an incumbent Republican congressman.
Why it matters: A solar-financed super PAC notching a fifth GOP primary win demonstrates that clean-energy donors are now a meaningful force in Republican primaries, reshaping how candidates in conservative districts court outside money. Graham's defeat of Norman — an incumbent — signals the PAC can defeat sitting members, not just open-seat candidates.
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