[don-o]

The 58-year-old is running for a third term and faces Nancy Mace, the first female graduate of the Citadel, State Senator Lee Bright and local businessman Richard Cash in the GOP primary.

SC conservatives must demand that the three announced candidates lay out a road map to victory in defeating Linda. If there are three opponents, it's simply a suicide mission. We have the same situation shaping up in Tennessee with Lamar!

[MplsSteve]

“If there are three opponents, it’s simply a suicide mission.”

OTOH, maybe not. South Carolina’s primary dictates that if a candidate doesn’t get 50% =1 of the vote, the top two finishers move on to a run-off to be held several weeks later.

There’s good reason to believe that Graham would be one of the the two. He does (rightly or wrongly) have a significant base of support to work with.

But if the other two candidates can gain some strength and raise some money, it’s not out of the question that Graham gets knocked off in the primary rather than the run-off.

[JRandomFreeper]

If there are three opponents, it's simply a suicide mission.

That's not how primaries work in SC. In the first election, if Graham doesn't get 50%+, then he'll be in a run-off with ONE opponent.

Quite different from presidential primaries.

/johnny