Annie Andrews Wins South Carolina Senate Race — SkimNews
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- Annie Andrews, a former paediatrician, was on course to defeat Republican Darline Graham in Tuesday’s midterm elections, with CBS projecting a result that would deliver Democrats their first South Carolina victory in 28 years.
- Darline Graham was appointed to the Senate seat in July after the sudden death of her brother, Senator Lindsey Graham.
- Trump supported Graham’s appointment and won South Carolina by 18 points in the 2024 election.
- Graham, a political newcomer, conceded during the primary that she was “not that informed on national security” and stumbled on a foreign-policy question; asked about the U.S. stance toward Taiwan, she said she supported the military.
- Lindsey Graham was elected to the Senate in 2002 and became an influential Washington voice on foreign policy, often pressing for U.S. military intervention overseas.
Why it matters: The projected result gives Democrats a Senate seat in a state Trump won by 18 points in 2024, while defeating the candidate he backed after her July appointment. It also shifts a seat held since 2002 by a vocal advocate of overseas military intervention to former paediatrician Annie Andrews.
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