Was Darline Graham’s Dumb Debate Answer Just an Act?

Ed Kilgore: “Throughout her brief career as a senator and as a candidate to remain one, Darline Graham has gone to some lengths to distance herself from the legacy of her late brother while snuggling up to Donald Trump as closely as possible. That reflects a political shrewdness that Lindsey Graham himself might have ruefully endorsed.”

“After all, the very distinguished senior senator from South Carolina was never entirely trusted by the conservative ideologues of his state. A lot of the voters likely to dominate a low-turnout special-election runoff in the hellish heat of late August probably suspected smart-ass Lindsey looked down on them as knuckle-dragging rubes.”

“Darline needs to steer clear of such associations, and she also needs to make herself less the biological sister of Lindsey Graham than the political stepdaughter of the 47th president, whose endorsement improbably lifted her from caretaker status to a viable candidacy for six years in the Senate.”