Your flop sweat is showing, senator:
Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, paired with Democrats’ vague threats of retribution if they win power, are practically the only thing unifying conservatives in a state that President Donald Trump won by 14 points in 2016. It could be what saves Graham and, in turn, the Senate Republican majority.
But that’s far from a given. Graham (R-S.C.) has been forced into the race of his life. He’s facing an opponent who is the best-funded Senate candidate in American history; anger from the left over his metamorphosis from scathing Trump antagonist to fierce loyalist; and lingering distrust from a small but not insignificant slice of conservatives over his past as an aisle-crossing compromiser.
“Lindsey Graham, do you know why @harrisonjaime raised $57 Million?” asked the Lincoln Project. “Because America knows you believe in nothing but Lindsey Graham.”
The snarling chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is reduced to illegally pleading for donations in the halls of Congress.
Cook’s Political ranks the race a toss-up.
Those in S.C. who have not voted absentee by now? Vote early or make a plan to vote on Nov. 3.
Oscar-winning South Carolina native Viola Davis narrates this new ad for Jaime Harrison.
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