{"id":76247,"date":"2026-07-18T11:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/rep-ralph-norman-enters-south-carolina-senate-race-despite-trumps-endorsement-of-darline-graham\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T11:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:55:28","slug":"rep-ralph-norman-enters-south-carolina-senate-race-despite-trumps-endorsement-of-darline-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/rep-ralph-norman-enters-south-carolina-senate-race-despite-trumps-endorsement-of-darline-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep Ralph Norman enters South Carolina Senate race despite Trump’s endorsement of Darline Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., will run for Senate in South Carolina following the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham<\/a>, he revealed Saturday.<\/p>\n

“I’m here to announce that I will be a candidate for the Senate<\/a>, I’ll be throwing my hat into the ring, and day one, Kayleigh, I will be laser-focused on passing President Trump’s America First” Norman said during an appearance on “Saturday In America with Kayleigh McEnany.”<\/p>\n

Norman then championed Trump’s SAVE America Act and said he would focus on eliminating the filibuster, saying Republicans need to<\/a> “nuke” the procedure.<\/p>\n

Norman made the announcement just days after President Donald Trump<\/a> publicly endorsed Darline Graham<\/a>, Lindsey Graham’s sister who was appointed to finish the remainder of his term, to run for the seat fully when her term is up in January.<\/p>\n

CONSERVATIVES UNITE AROUND SAVE AMERICA ACT AFTER TRUMP DECLASSIFIES ‘SHOCKING’ ELECTION INTEL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

DARLINE GRAHAM IS CONSIDERING RUNNING FOR A FULL SENATE TERM, A REPORT SAID, AS MEMORIAL SERVICES HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED FOR HER LATE BROTHER LINDSEY GRAHAM.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“I hope Darline does this, in \u2060that there would be nobody better to honor \u200bthe legacy of her beloved brother, Lindsey,” Trump \u200bsaid in a Truth Social post, also writing “Run Darline Run.”<\/p>\n

Norman acknowledged Trump’s endorsement Saturday, telling McEnany he asked for Trump’s blessing.<\/p>\n

“He decided to go with Darline, who’s a nice person, and he decided to go with her and I respect that, but that doesn’t deter my plans. I’m in this to win,” he said.<\/p>\n

Norman will be running in the Aug. 11 special GOP primary election<\/a>, revealing that he is in the process of filing the paperwork.<\/p>\n

Though not backed by Trump, Norman has received support from GOP Senators Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Rick Scott, R-Fla., both of whom endorsed him<\/a>. The pair, like Norman, are both vocal opponents of the filibuster.<\/p>\n

Norman will be entering a competitive primary, as at least two other candidates have declared their intentions to run with further challengers expected to enter the race.<\/p>\n

Businessman Mark Lynch, who ran against Lindsey Graham<\/a> in the recent June primary, has announced his candidacy, as did attorney Duke Buckner.<\/p>\n

And though Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., hasn’t publicly announced an intention to run, state lawmakers are already eyeing his seat in the House<\/a> should he decide to enter the fray, according to reporting<\/a> from News From The States.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital contacted Reps. Norman, Mace and Fry, along with Sen. Darline Graham for further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., will run for Senate in South Carolina following the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, he revealed Saturday. “I’m here to announce that I will be a candidate for the Senate, I’ll be throwing my hat into the ring, and day one, Kayleigh, I will be laser-focused on passing President Trump’s America … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}