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@NancyMace Today I officially filed to run for Governor of South Carolina. South Carolina didn’t just shape me, it made me. And now it’s time to give it everything I got. My family has been here for hundreds of years. I grew up here. I raised my children here. And serving South Carolina has been the honor of my life. I’m working hard to earn every single vote, and I won’t stop until you tell me to.

@MarkLynchSC Lindsey Graham is vulnerable because he has put global priorities ahead of American ones. He has ignored Americans in favor of foreigners. He has fought for special interests instead of his constituents. That ends on June 9. I will represent South Carolinians, defend their values, and fight for America First policies in Washington.

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

Businessman Mark Lynch is surging against longtime incumbent Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) ahead of the May primary in South Carolina, a new poll provided exclusively to Breitbart News ahead of its public release shows. On an initial ballot, Graham is well under 50 percent down at just 41 percent while Lynch has moved up to 21 percent. A third candidate, Paul Dans, is at 11 percent and 22 percent are unsure. “Lindsey Graham is in real trouble in this solidly pro-Trump primary,” the polling memo states. “When South Carolina Republican voters learn the candidates’ records, they shift sharply to conservative...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is viewed unfavorably by 61% of voters, according to a new statewide poll conducted by Impact Research. The poll suggested that only 34% of voters viewed him favorably, with 57% of respondents claiming they are "looking to vote for someone else." "Senator Graham is in serious political trouble, and this poll confirms what South Carolinians already know — they're ready for change," said Dr. Annie Andrews. "I'm running because working families in this state deserve a senator who fights for them, not one who's spent decades in Washington collecting corporate checks and...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) late Tuesday said President Trump has “no reason” to invade Tehran but urged the president to “take” Kharg Island to cripple the Iranian regime’s economy. “No, we’re not going to evade Iran,” Graham told Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “There’s no reason to, we’re going to destroy their ability to hurt us, have a nuclear weapon, build missiles to hit America and terrorize the region.” “Kharg Island — 90 percent of their income comes from oil and gas revenue,” he continued, adding that “100 percent of that revenue generating capabilities on a single island, Mr. President, take...

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham filed for reelection on Monday to continue representing South Carolina in the United States Senate. Sen Graham shared his vision and outlined how he plans to continue delivering President Trump’s agenda in the Palmetto State. "If you give me six more years, I'm going to continue doing what I've been doing, helping you at home, taking care of the roads and the bridges, all the sewage and the water, all the things you need to grow South Carolina." Sen. Graham said. Sen Graham has been endorsed by President Donald J. Trump, as well as Governor Henry...

Congressional Democrats are reintroducing legislation that would repay the families of Black American veterans who served in World War II and were unable to take advantage of the original GI Bill. The GI Bill Restoration Act would provide descendants of these veterans a transferable benefit that could be used to obtain housing, attend college or start a business, according to the announcement Thursday from the bill’s sponsors. To mark Veterans Day, the bill was unveiled Thursday by House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina and Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts in the House and is expected to be introduced...

"The South Carolina GOP senator is using golf, good humor and frequent White House visits to try to influence foreign policy and keep Trump close as he faces a primary challenge.I’m his north star,” Graham told NBC News in an interview this week, a bold remark few in his party would dare make. “We disagree, but he knows where I am coming from. He sees me helping him as much as anybody in the Senate.” ADVERTISING Late last month, Graham temporarily blocked a $1.2 trillion deal to avert a government shutdown. Asked by reporters why he would block something that...

A notable number of Republican lawmakers broke sharply with the White House on Friday after President Trump posted — and later deleted — a video on social media that included a clip of former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama depicted as apes. Republicans have generally been careful about voicing criticisms of Trump, and Friday’s episode began with a more typical partisan line, with Democrats quick to condemn the video as racist. But then Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.) — a close Trump ally and the only Black Republican in the Senate — soon joined them, paving the way...

The White House deleted a meme video posted on President Trump’s Truth Social that depicted former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, as apes — after a prominent GOP senator called the clip the “most racist thing I’ve seen” and demanded it be taken down. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt initially defended the post and accused critics of fomenting “fake outrage” — but the video was taken down a little before noon Friday. A White House official added that a staffer had “erroneously made the post. It has been taken down.” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), the highest-ranking black...

CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA—Maryland governor Wes Moore, who is widely expected to seek the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, has a powerful family story of racial injustice that he repeatedly tells during public speeches: His grandfather, as a small boy, fled 1920s Charleston with his family in the dead of night after his father—a prominent black minister and Moore’s great-grandfather—angered the Ku Klux Klan with sermons condemning racism. Narrowly escaping a lynching, the family took refuge in Jamaica. But Moore’s grandfather, just six years old at the time, vowed to return to America, where he eventually raised a grandson who made history...

The Senate’s race to avert a shutdown hit the skids late Thursday night as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) placed a hold on the government funding package, forcing leaders to punt the vote. Senators had been hoping to vote on the so-called minibus after leaders struck a deal earlier in the day and President Trump endorsed it. Under the agreement, the Senate was set to vote on a package of five full-year funding bills and a stopgap measure funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for two weeks. But as lawmakers awaited word on the vote late Thursday, a fired-up Graham...

A senior Navy official removed from her post by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last year is running for Congress. Nancy Lacore, who served in the Navy for 35 years as a Navy helicopter pilot, three-star admiral and the chief of the Navy Reserve, announced a run for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District on Tuesday. "After decades of service to our country, a career that started as a Navy pilot and finished as a three-star admiral, I was removed from my position without cause. I still have more to give, more to fight for, more work to do -- and I...

The South Carolina measles outbreak is growing at an astounding speed. “Over the last seven to nine days, we’ve had upwards of over 200 new cases. That’s doubled just in the last week,” Dr. Johnathon Elkes, an emergency medicine physician at Prisma Health in Greenville, South Carolina, said during a media briefing Friday. “We feel like we’re really kind of staring over the edge, knowing that this is about to get a lot worse.”... The number of cases is expected to grow. The health department’s report only reflects the number of people whose illness has been confirmed as measles by...

House Republicans are escalating scrutiny of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) after Oversight Committee members moved to seek immigration records connected to long-standing allegations surrounding her second marriage. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) confirmed this week that lawmakers are pursuing subpoenas related to Omar’s immigration history and that of her former spouse, amid claims that the marriage may have been entered into for immigration purposes. “Federal marriage fraud and knowingly entering a marriage to evade immigration laws is a serious felony punishable by prison time, steep fines, denaturalization, and deportation,” Mace said in a statement. “Marrying a sibling is illegal in every...

South Carolina state Rep. John Lastinger (R), a pastor, won the special election for South Carolina House District 88, defeating Democrat and retired Army Col. Joseph “Chuck” Hightower. The seat opened after former state Rep. RJ May (R) resigned following a guilty plea in a federal child sexual abuse material case. Lastinger, who ran as a conservative backing anti-abortion measures and gun rights, will serve through next November.

A South Carolina man accused of drunk driving and stealing a patrol car vowed to take his case to President Donald Trump during a fiery spat at his bond hearing. William Waters allegedly stole the patrol car from the QuikTrip gas station in Spartanburg County on Saturday night while suffering from an apparent mental health crisis. Waters, 34, appeared before a judge on Monday, facing charges of grand larceny, failure to stop for blue lights and driving while under the influence. As the judge read the charges out, the suspect repeatedly interrupted, accused the judge of lying and refused to...

The Trump administration’s aggressive deportation policies have heightened stress among the country’s approximately 14 million immigrants who are living in the U.S. without legal authorization. The sharp rise in dramatic arrests and deportations of immigrants over the past year has received widespread media attention. A less publicized issue is that many young, undocumented immigrants are also finding it harder to apply to and stay in college. As someone who researches teacher training and was a high school teacher in South Carolina, I have researched how restrictive education policies make it harder for immigrant students, particularly undocumented students, to receive a...