Democrats notched an upset victory in South Carolina’s Senate race, NBC News projects, with Annie Andrews toppling Republican Sen. Darline Graham, who was appointed this year to succeed her late brother, longtime Sen. Lindsey Graham.
Andrews, a pediatrician, will be the state’s first Democratic senator in more than 20 years. Donald Trump carried South Carolina by more than 17 percentage points two years ago.
Andrews is a pediatrician.
I was rooting for her from Illinois.
God knows SC needed someone with some brains for once.
Not sure how common it is for physicians to become politicians but probably should happen more than it does.
“In memory of her brother, she finished on the bottom.”
With his ladybugs.
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Pause and Phrasing.
dying was the best thing Lindsay ever did
There’s some dudes he met in a bathroom that would disagree with you.
That’s like believing that the bunnies were with Hugh Hefner for his sexual prowess.
Would they though?
Gotta push past the ladybugs
Hey I was saving that line for my estranged SIL’s funeral
Genuinely cannot believe it. Never thought I’d see a democratic senator from SC.
The governor’s race was just over 4 points with 1.2 points 3rd party. Way closer than I would have guessed.
My favorite win of the night. Suck shit Darlene ya bigoted old skinflap
Darlene, Collins, Paxton, and many more. I am soooo happy to say goodbye to all of them.
I just woke up to a new day and I feel happiness for the first time in a long, long time. I know it will be short lived, but it’s worth it to see them handed their hat.
I’m not sure what’s stunning - apart from the fact that it happened in SC: Darline Graham is dumber than a sack of bricks, grossly incompetent, and even the most hardcore republican can’t possible vote for her and think she’s gonna bring any added value for South Carolinians to the senate. Not to mention the risk that she might open her dumb mouth again and shame the whole state by saying something inane.
I don’t usually count on the good sense and intelligence of republican voters, but Darline Graham is really over the top. I’m not surprised she lost.
Trump picked her though. That’s what’s hilarious about this, he’s saying that the candidates are shitty when he picked some of them, lol.
And he picked those candidates on Jan 6th riot supporter absolute loyalty basis. Graham’s “I don’t need to care about foreign policy” zombie was the perfect Trump rubber stamp candidate.
You clearly over estimate the intelligence and integrity of the people of S. Carolina. If they were as you described then this shouldn’t have even been close and yet it was a very narrow victory.
I’m more stunned that Lindsay Graham held that seat for as long as he did.
This is great too, every vote counts and high turnout matters!
Both Carolinas in the bag.
Roy hasn’t lost an election in 40 years.
Roy’s our boy!
I lived in Durham from 1998 to 2005. That whole RTP area was a great place to live. Durham Bulls games. Almost always some decent live music somewhere nearby.
I am feeling the utmost excitement for Kansas right now. What a wonderful night.
And then there is Ala-fucking-bama, electing as governor one of the few people in the world dumber than Trump. Alabama never fails to disappoint.
Thank god for Alabama - every state ranked 49th in something good
Wait what?
checks
Oh dear fucking lord what is it with these morons and people they know from TV?!?!?
I haven’t been following that but it would be great if the GOP loses both the Senate seat and the governor’s race in Kansas.
It is pretty amazing that all the statewide elections in Georgia all went blue. Going to be grid lock there since the GA House is solidly GOP.
That should give Darline plenty of time to inform herself on national security. Maybe she’ll realize one of the biggest threats is the GOP.
Pretty crazy one. Am i allowed to hope again?
I… I’m starting to feel the same way. I’m holding my breath still. Because… I have hard time believing that these evil people will let go of power willingly.
No. Jeffries and Schumer are still in powerful and will work to nerf anything meaningful.
They need to win leadership election. Who would be good challengers? Just below average AIPAC financing would be a start for candidates. Happens 2 months from now.
This is just the starting point. If Dems look at these results and still want to do the same old then we’ve gone nowhere.
Cool, now we can shit on her for being a transphobe and no one will complain.
Damn straight we can.
She’s infinitely better than the barely sentient pile of excrement she replaced, but her stance on trans folks is unacceptable.
Be better.
☝️
You’re a great ally Malica!
Unfortunately we can see they started complaining almost instantly. Not surprised by them at this point.
So youre just copy-pasting everywhere now?
Two comments for two equally terrible transphobes. I shouldn’t be able to say the exact same thing about them but yet here we are ̄\(ツ)/ ̄
This is so fantastic.
I saw Darline saying normal Americans need to kiss her ass. Guess she can kiss OUR ass.
The race was within the margin of error according to polling. Maybe a major upset from a political geography perspective but not if you believe polling.
An upset in the sense that if you heard that two years ago that SC would elect a Democrat senator in 2026 people would have laughed at you. A 17+ point shift in two years is insane.
Yeah I mean I alluded to that but I just want to point out that in this era of being blackpilled about the polls, if you watched and trusted them this wasn’t a complete shock.
Good
