Summary
Democrat Annie Andrews defeated incumbent Republican Darline Graham in South Carolina’s U.S. Senate race, CBS News projected. Andrews campaigned on health care access and affordability and on fighting corruption; her victory gives Democrats an unexpected Senate pickup.Key Facts
- Andrews is a 45-year-old pediatrician.
- Graham, 62, was appointed to serve the remainder of her brother Lindsey Graham’s Senate term after his death in July.
- Graham won a special primary to become the Republican candidate for a full six-year term.
- South Carolina last elected a Democrat to the Senate in 1998, and Donald Trump won the state by 18 points in 2024.
- Andrews criticized Graham’s experience, citing her comment that she was “not that informed on national security.”
- The Senate Leadership Fund spent $5 million supporting Graham in October.
- MAGA Inc., a super PAC controlled by Trump, gave Graham $827,000 in August; Trump also campaigned for her.
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