“Could Lindsey pull a Murkowski and run anyway even if he loses the primary?”
You, man, just predicted the one thing that I am afraid of. I like to think that he would lose anyway, but he might cause a Democrat win.
I don’t think that Lindsay cares as much for the Party, or the state, as he does for his maintenance of power.
I believe SC, unlike AK, has a sore-loser law that keeps a primary loser out of a general election.