In Democrats’ second Senate flip of the night, South Carolina rejects the senator Trump hand-picked
Trump put Darline Graham in her late brother’s seat and even rallied for her thrice. She ran about 10 points behind her own party’s candidate for governor.
On Tuesday night, South Carolina voters elected a Republican governor and a Democratic senator, flipping the Senate seat that President Donald Trump had previously appointed. Democrat Annie Andrews, a former pediatrician, defeated Republican incumbent Sen. Darline Graham. This marked the first time a Democrat had won a Senate race in South Carolina since 1998.
Graham, a longtime Republican, struggled due to perceptions of nepotism, as Trump had backed her sister for the position. Andrews, who raised $10.8 million for her campaign, largely focused on working across party lines and not running against Trump.
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