‘Trump Threw Us All a Curveball’

“When President Donald Trump helped orchestrate Darline Graham’s appointment to finish Sen. Lindsey Graham’s term, many Republicans in South Carolina saw it as a fitting tribute to her late brother,” CNN reports.

“But four days later, following Trump’s announcement that he wanted Graham to run for a six-year term, their feelings quickly flipped.”

“The president’s decision to get behind a political unknown for a breakneck special election process is further testing his clout in South Carolina, a solidly red state where Republicans already this year have roundly rejected his first pick for the governor’s race and his push to redraw the state’s congressional maps. Behind the scenes, some Republicans are stewing as others fret that Trump is setting himself up for failure, once again, in the Palmetto State.”

Mediaite: First poll on South Carolina Senate race for Lindsey Graham’s seat shows runoff is likely.