Darline Graham wins South Carolina Republican special Senate primary runoff

Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.), sister of the late-senator Lindsey Graham, won the special Republican primary election runoff on Tuesday to represent South Carolina for a full term in the Senate.With 99% of votes counted, Graham had 52.3% of the vote against 47.7% for Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), a five-term congressman for South Carolina’s 5th District in the Upstate region. The Associated Press called the race for Graham about two hours after polls closed.Lindsey Graham died suddenly and unexpectedly in July from an aortic tear shortly after returning from a visit to Ukraine and one month after he had won the Republican primary for his 2026 re-election.He was known during his tenure in the Senate as a foreign policy hawk, advocating strong relations between the United States in Israel and for American military power abroad.South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, appointed Darline Graham to her brother’s Senate seat on July…

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