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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Independent voter-led movement reaches major milestone as political attention and media interest grow in South Carolina’s U.S. Senate race. SOUTH CAROLINA — What began as a grassroots expression of political independence has reached a significant milestone. South Carolinian’s for Write-In Ralph Norman, a public Facebook group advocating an independent write-in effort in […]

A precinct-by-precinct examination of South Carolina’s Republican Senate runoff shows that Ralph Norman’s vote total grew more between rounds and that most new turnout came from Trump territory — even as Darline Graham performed substantially better in precincts Kamala Harris carried in 2024. The statewide result of South Carolina’s August Republican U.S. Senate runoff seemed […]

Communism is back in American political vocabulary. Heading into the 2026 midterms, President Donald Trump and other Republican leaders have increasingly presented the election as a struggle against communism. Trump has described Democrats as communists and warned that Democratic victories would move the country in that direction. The Associated Press reported this summer that Vice […]

There is a special kind of irony in watching South Carolina’s Senate race unfold. Less than a month after one of the most expensive and aggressive Republican intraparty fights this state has ever seen, Darline Graham’s campaign is now asking supporters to chip in five bucks because apparently the primary and runoff emptied their bank […]

The Story Didn’t End With Mark Lynch About six weeks ago Evan Mulch published “Pop-Up PACs and Political Power” to his substack, the South Carolina Republican Senate story was still unfolding. In the article he focused heavily on Palmetto Action, a super PAC created during the 2026 election cycle that spent millions opposing Mark Lynch […]

A primary election does something very specific: it chooses a political party’s nominee. It does not decide the general election. That distinction seems obvious, but it has become increasingly blurred in South Carolina’s U.S. Senate race. Darline Graham won the Republican runoff on August 25 with roughly 52.5% of the vote, that result made her […]