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Sen. Lindsey Graham held a campaign event in Downtown Charleston [last] Friday, where he outlined his political priorities and urged supporters not to back down heading into election season... Regardless of the topic being discussed, Graham found a way to loop in how his tight relationship with the President is a pillar voters should lean on when at the polls...

Poll after poll shows the 24-year incumbent struggling to stay above the critical 50% line. Here’s the truth about Tuesday, and it’s simpler than the establishment wants you to think. Lindsey Graham doesn’t have to be beaten outright on June 9. He just has to be held under 50%. In South Carolina, if no candidate clears a majority, this goes to a runoff — one-on-one, no crowded field for Graham to hide behind. And poll after poll this year has shown the same thing: after 24 years in Washington, Graham keeps hovering right around that 50% line. Some have him...

A "predator's paradise" May 31, 2026. by Daniel Greenfield. Let’s sum up. Graham Platner is not an ‘oyster farm’, not working class and was not forced to fight in Iraq. Or to put it another way, everything he says about himself is a lie. But well before all this, he did talk about being a Communist, got a Nazi tattoo and posted some nasty stuff. The campaign and its allies defended Platner as just posting things without really meaning them.

Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., cautioned Republicans to be "very careful what you pray for" amid a Trump-backed effort by Republican South Carolina state lawmakers to redraw the state’s map — an effort that would target Clyburn, the lone Democratic member of the state’s U.S. House of Representatives. Deemed a "kingmaker" within the Democratic Party, Clyburn’s endorsement of then–presidential candidate Joe Biden during the 2020 election was widely credited with helping Biden win the presidency. He has been in Congress for more than 30 years, but now faces uncertainty as the South Carolina legislature voted Wednesday to consider redrawing the state’s...

"Please help me.” Lindsey Graham goes on Fox News to plead for money. ...

Apparently, Tucker Carlson thought it would be a good idea to use his platform to attack Franklin Graham, Samaritan’s Purse and the faith-based community. Tucker Carlson made a big mistake. There are situations that we sometimes have a great deal of familiarity with. The work of Samaritan’s Purse and Franklin Graham is one of those situations for me. Readers here will know of my time spent as a CERT volunteer during national disasters, most of which involve hurricane relief. I have worked closely with Samaritan’s purse, spent time inside that organization and know the scale of assistance they provide. They...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) responded to photos of him at Disney World over the weekend in the midst of a partial government shutdown. Graham was seen at the theme park in Florida on Friday and Saturday with a bubble wand while waiting in line to get on the Space Mountain ride. “I was invited to a meeting in South Florida on Friday with Trump official Steve Witkoff … to talk about the possibility of normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel,” Graham told TMZ in a statement, which was also shared with The Hill. “I went to Orlando to meet friends...

President Trump has been assured about the fate of his immortal soul, according to a letter he posted on Sunday on Truth Social on Palm Sunday. Franklin Graham, the son of a late legendary televangelist, assured the commander in chief in a private letter that his “soul is secure,” and he is “bound for heaven” if he accepts Jesus Christ as God, in the note sent last year. Graham, a key evangelical ally of Trump, wrote to him last year after the president jokingly questioned whether or not he would make it to heaven. “It is an important issue to...

@wendyp4545 Graham is going to win his Primary again because the people in South Carolina repeat the same mistakes every single time that he is up for reelection. To the voters in South Carolina: To get rid of Graham, you need to rally your vote around 1 single challenger. As it stands today, you're splitting the vote between the 2 challengers which allows Graham to slide in and win it. Graham has used this same strategy every reelection and like clockwork, the people in South Carolina keep repeating the same mistake.

Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R) on Sunday said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was acting as if U.S. soldiers were “expendable cattle” following his comments about the possibility of losing servicemembers in battle. “I am deeply upset at the lack of respect for life Senator Lindsey Graham is displaying when talking about our troops. He is acting as if they are expendable cattle. This is unacceptable and dark. There were over 26,000 American casualties at Iwo Jima,” Luna wrote in a post on the social platform X, with a clip of Graham’s remarks on Fox News’s “Fox News Sunday.” During...

@PpollingNumbers New - Senate Primary poll - South Carolina 🔴 Graham 41% 🔴 Lynch 21% 🔴 Danes 11% Pulse opinion #B - LV - 3/17

NOW - Lindsey Graham pleads with Trump to join the Israeli military fighting in Lebanon

A senior US senator clashed with Danish and Greenlandic leaders on the margins of the Munich Security Conference last week, refueling fears that the US appetite for the Arctic island has not faded. Tensions in US-Danish relations had calmed after Donald Trump walked back threats to deploy military force to acquire Greenland and to impose tariffs on eight European countries that were deploying troops on the island. But during a meeting with the two European leaders — Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen and Greenland’s Jens-Frederik Nielsen — Republican lawmaker Lindsey Graham warned that if Trump wanted Greenland, Washington could simply take it,...

FBI Director Kash Patel has fired agents involved in tracking phone calls of eight Republican senators and a congressman as part of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of President Donald Trump. Communication records belonging to GOP Sens. Lindsey Graham (SC), Marsha Blackburn (TN), Ron Johnson (WI), Josh Hawley (MO), Cynthia Lummis (WY), Bill Hagerty (TN), Dan Sullivan (AK), Tommy Tuberville (AL), and Rep. Mike Kelly (PA) were handed over to Smith’s “Arctic Frost” team after they subpoenaed major phone companies in 2023, Breitbart News reported. That fact was unknown to the public until this week, with Patel saying he...

Texas Republican Congressman Brandon Gil has filed articles of impeachment against US District Judge James Boasberg amid revelations that the Obama-appointed activist approved secret subpoenas to seize private phone records of Senators in the sham “Arctic Frost” investigation. It was revealed last week that the FBI and DOJ weaponized their power to target President Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, and their allies to dig up dirt on Republicans and activists who participated in efforts to overturn the rigged 2020 election. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley said last week that “197 subpoenas were issued...

Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Jim Himes (Conn) took issue with the Trump Administration policy of having the US Navy blow up drug smugglers boats, saying "Sen Graham (SC) and other Republicans say it's okay to kill suspected drug smugglers, just so long as the American public supports it. What will they say when President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez orders a strike on a MAGA demonstration or suppresses the speech of individuals who disagree with her policies? Do they really want to establish a precedent that the president can do whatever he or she wants?" "What precedent is he...

Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s national finance director announced his resignation on Friday, marking the latest departure an exodus of personnel from a campaign dogged by controversy at every turn. Ronald Holmes, who started working for Platner’s campaign in August, announced his immediate exit in a LinkedIn post, saying he is “no longer fully aligned” with the campaign’s standards. The exit comes just days after Platner’s campaign manager, Kevin Brown stepped down after less than a week on the job, and two weeks since the campaign’s political director, Genevieve McDonald, left. “I joined this campaign because I believed in...

The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald, as the U.S. prepares to initiate the next stage of its campaign against the Soles drug cartel. The planned attacks, also reported by the Wall Street Journal, will seek to destroy military installations used by the drug-trafficking organization the U.S. says is headed by Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and run by top members of his regime. Sources told the Herald that the targets — which could be struck by...

Ukraine counterintelligence investigates presence of sicarios on front line. [Spanish word for a hitman or a hired killer, especially in Latin American and Mexican drug cartels.] Ukraine's domestic intelligence suspects Spanish-speaking volunteers of infiltrating the International Legion to train in flying FPV drones. [First-Person View drones.] Some are reportedly linked to cartels and have been recruited through private military companies.

President Donald Trump has officially thrown his weight behind RINO Lindsey Graham—whose record includes climate pandering, open-borders showmanship, and globe-trotting war-baiting—in the 2026 Senate race.“Happy Birthday to Senator Lindsey Graham!” Trump posted, along with a smiling golf-course photo of the two. “He is always there when I need him, and I hope everyone in the Great State of South Carolina will help Lindsey have a BIG WIN in his re-election bid next year.”But if the goal was to rally the MAGA faithful around the career politician, Trump may be in for a surprise.“Thank you, Mr. President! This means a great...