Tuesday after filing closes. If no candidate wins an outright majority, a runoff follows two weeks after that.
Whoever emerges from that process will face Democrat Annie Andrews in the general election. South Carolina is a reliably red state, and the seat should remain Republican — but “should” and “will” are different words, and the compressed timeline, combined with the national attention this race will now receive, means Republicans cannot afford to hand this nomination to the wrong candidate. The stakes are real. The window is short.
Graham spent twenty-four years representing South Carolina in
