{"id":77286,"date":"2026-08-11T19:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/senator-darline-graham-advances-to-runoff-in-south-carolina-special-primary\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T19:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T00:56:16","slug":"senator-darline-graham-advances-to-runoff-in-south-carolina-special-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/senator-darline-graham-advances-to-runoff-in-south-carolina-special-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Darline Graham advances to runoff in South Carolina special primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsey Graham\u2019s sister, appointed to replace the Republican, held a narrow lead in the Senate primary<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Senator Darline Graham, appointed to complete the Senate term of her late brother, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has advanced to a runoff election for the Republican nomination of the seat. It remains unclear who she will face on 25 August.<\/p>\n<p>Graham held a narrow lead in the polls going into the abbreviated special primary on Tuesday, which predicted a close contest for second place. Congressman Russell Fry, Congressman Ralph Norman and former governor Mark Sanford polled within a point of each other in the most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjcl.com\/article\/darline-graham-south-carolina-senate-primary\/73403052\">survey<\/a> from the Trafalgar Group. Graham has loudly trumpeted her endorsement from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, but also enjoys the support of South Carolina\u2019s governor, Henry McMaster, and John Thune, the Senate majority leader.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/11\/south-carolina-senate-primary-runoff-darline-graham\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsey Graham\u2019s sister, appointed to replace the Republican, held a narrow lead in the Senate primary Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Senator Darline Graham, appointed to complete the Senate term of her late brother, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has advanced to a runoff election for the Republican nomination of the &#8230; <a title=\"Senator Darline Graham advances to runoff in South Carolina special primary\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/11\/senator-darline-graham-advances-to-runoff-in-south-carolina-special-primary\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Senator Darline Graham advances to runoff in South Carolina special primary\">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-77286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77286","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=77286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}