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It's a Super Tuesday with a special House election in Nebraska, House GOP runoffs in Mississippi as well as primary elections in Colorado, Illinois, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah.
Special #NE01 House election today to fill fmr GOP Rep. Jeff Fortenberry's vacant seat until end of 2022.He resigned March 31 after being convicted.Fmr NE Legislature Spkr Republican Mike Flood & Democratic State Sen Patty Pansing Brooks face off in both today's & fall elections.
Two House GOP runoff elections in MS today: 6th term #MS04 GOP Rep. Steven Palazzo,who is facing Ethics Cmte investigation for allegedly misusing campaign fund,& 2nd term #MS03 Rep. Michael Guest,who voted to create independent commission to investigate 1/6 attack on US Capitol.
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I reached out to Graham for comment. His spokesman simply responded:

"Graham on Hannity tonight at 9pm."
NEW: @LindseyGrahamSC tells @Hannity he will donate $500,000 to @realDonaldTrump's legal defense fund.

"I'm here tonight to stand with President Trump, he stood with me."
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Though polls had shown a close race, local observers urged caution, citing the stateā€™s history of electing statewide Republicans by wide margins.

When the votes were counted, @LindseyGrahamSC had won by 11 percentage points.

My retrospect of #SCSen.

apnews.com/article/senateā€¦
In his candidacyā€™s nascence, @HarrisonJaime told me he imagined it'd take $10M to oust Graham. In the end, he raised more than 10 times that, becoming the first Senate candidate ever to cross the $100M threshold.

In all, he brought in a total of $130M, according to his campaign.
Analyzing the spending Wednesday, @SCGOP Chairman @DrewMcKissick told me that, given Grahamā€™s decisive win, coupled with a red wave that swept through races across the state, he imagined out-of-state Democrats would feel hard-pressed to hone in on South Carolina, anytime soon.
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Breaking news! @LindseyGrahamSC is victorious in #SCsen! #ElectionNight
WSO PAC's six-figure campaign to help re-elect this #ProLife hero included:

šŸ—³ļø 500K targeted voters reached

šŸ“« 664K voter mail pieces

šŸ’» 1.6M digital ad views

šŸ“ž 171K live voter calls

šŸ“³ 353K texts
As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Graham has championed the confirmation of 3 SCOTUS justices & 200+ lower federal court judges in 4 years. He's also the lead sponsor of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

No wonder he was target #1 for the abortion lobby...
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Tonight, I'm at @LindseyGrahamSC HQ in Columbia, SC.
Polls close at 7pm.
Will update on #SCSen, as well as other state & nat'l race calls.
Will tweet AP race calls as they come.

@AP may not be first, but we'd rather be right.

So be patient - and stay tuned! #Election2020 Image
As we wait, there's a hiccup in #SC01.

13,500 mail-in ballots could not be read by scanners because of a printing error.

They will need to be entered by hand, so there may not be a race call tonight if the race is close.

@JSCollinsAP reports.

apnews.com/article/charleā€¦
For those of you following nationally, #SC01 was the first U.S. House seat to flip from Republican to Democrat in South Carolina since 1986. Republicans desperately want this seat back and have been targeting it since @JoeCunninghamSC took office in 2018.
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NEW: Senate candidate @harrisonjaime announcing this morning that he has raised a record $57 million in the Q3 in his race against @LindseyGrahamSC.

This is the highest quarterly amount raised by a Senate candidate in US history.

Brings his total haul to an unfathomable $86M.
These lines from the Q2 story I wrote back in 2019 continue to stick out:

"Harrison, 43, has said that he thinks it could take $10 million to win the race next year."

"In the first quarter of 2019, (Graham) raised more than $2 million, setting a personal quarterly record."
Needless to say, we've come a long way since the days (last year) when $4.6 million was considered ā€œone of the largest campaign war chests among Republican incumbents in the country.ā€
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Sen. ā¦@LindseyGrahamSCā© and ā¦@harrisonjaimeā© are set to meet for their second debate tonight, although campaign clashes over COVID-19 are stirring doubts of whether the matchup will go on at all.

My story on this #SCSen pre-debate, debate. apnews.com/32aac71fc733dcā€¦
Harrison threatened to tank the debate, scheduled for 7 p.m. in Spartanburg, unless Graham takes another COVID-19 test.
Graham, citing advice from a physician who oversees members of Congress, says itā€™s unnecessary.

ā€œWhether Mr. Harrison attends tomorrowā€™s debate is his decision, not mine. I will be there,ā€ he said yesterday.
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Lindsey Graham & Jaime Harrison are debating in 5 minutes (& both are wearing a mask while the debate starts on stage ā€” would Graham have a few days ago?). #scsen
Grahamā€™s introductory statement invokes ā€œconservative judges and liberal judges, order and chaos.ā€
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NEW: @LindseyGrahamSC's campaign has needed a moment to shore up support with GOP voters in #SCSen.

Several strategists in the state (Democratic and Republican) said the timing of a #SCOTUS fight couldn't be better as he faces a tight re-election race. morningconsult.com/2020/09/22/majā€¦ Image
What #SCSen looks like among GOP voters (Biden + Harrison are on even footing w/ Dems).

Why a #SCOTUS fight is good for Graham, per @MattMooreSC: "Presidential elections come down to turnout on the edges, and judges motivate the most conservative voters" morningconsult.com/2020/09/22/majā€¦ Image
An interesting theory that came up in interviews w/ several Dems last week was that Trump supporters, wary of Graham, might back the Constitution Party candidate, or just sit out #SCSen.

#SCOTUS fight could make that proposition harder. morningconsult.com/2020/09/22/majā€¦ Image
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Breaking @QuinnipiacPoll in #SCSEN:

Lindsey Graham (R) 48%
Jaime Harrison (D) 48%
Breaking @QuinnipiacPoll in #MESEN

Sara Gideon (D) 54%
Susan Collins (R) 42%
Breaking @QuinnipiacPoll in #KYSEN

Mitch McConnell (R) 53%
Amy McGrath (D) 41%
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NEW: @AmyMcGrathKY's campaign says its national TV ads have helped her raise millions in her #KYSen bid. (Setting aside the current primary) I explored whether the fundraising strategy could be replicated (Looking at you, #SCSen).

More (and a thread!): morningconsult.com/2020/06/18/mcgā€¦
McGrath's national buying started out as an experiment, her campaign manager told me. They had the resources, so why not? Low risk, high-potential reward. The response? #KYsen morningconsult.com/2020/06/18/mcgā€¦ Image
.@Team_Mitch is an easy target for national Democratic activist energy -- his #KYSen rival in '14 raised a ton of money, too -- due in part to his large, and almost totally negative name ID from the national Dem base. @LindseyGrahamSC comes in second. morningconsult.com/2020/06/18/mcgā€¦ Image
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SHOT: GOP Senate sneaks a $170 BILLION dollar tax break for real estate developers into the #coronavirus relief bill meant to help struggling Americans.

CHASER: The Real Estate Roundtable, the group pushing the tax break, gave GOP Senators more than $70,000. #COVID19
COLLINS: @SenatorCollinsā€™ campaign committee took $11,500 in contributions from The Real Estate Roundtable PAC. #MESen americanbridgepac.org/after-receivinā€¦
MCCONNELL: @senatemajldr took $17,500 from The Real Estate Roundtable over the course of his long career. #KYSen americanbridgepac.org/after-receivinā€¦
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Good morning from Beaufort, where @PeteButtigieg is set to begin a weekend in South Carolina.

Several hundred folks were undeterred by the rain and are now filing in. #SC2020
@PeteButtigieg Opening with a shoutout to SC Dems, GA Dems and IN Dems in attendance, @PeteButtigieg says "we know that there is no such thing as a permanently red state." #SC2020
"There has never been a moment of greater urgency," @PeteButtigieg tells Dem voters in Beaufort, listing plans for rural healthcare/internet, tackling systemic racism and gun safety.

"I think we may even be under-reacting to the stakes of the moment we're living in." #SC2020
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