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4 Nov, 4 tweets, 6 min read
BREAKING: #APRaceCall - Veteran Rep @WhipClyburn defeats Republican challenger @MccollumFor in #SouthCarolina's 6th District, securing his 15th term in Congress #SC06 #Election2020 Image
BREAKING: #APRaceCall - Republican @RepJeffDuncan defeats Democratic challenger @ClevelandHosea in #SouthCarolina's 3rd District, securing his 6th term in Congress #SC03 #Election2020 Image
BREAKING: #APRaceCall - Republican @RepRalphNorman defeats Democratic challenger @MoeBrownSC in #SouthCarolina's 5th District, securing his 2nd full term in Congress #SC05 #Election2020 Image
BREAKING: #APRaceCall - Republican @RepTomRice defeats Democratic challenger @melissawatsonf1 in #SouthCarolina's 7th District, securing his 5th term in Congress #SC07 #Election2020 Image

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5 Nov
A jab at @LindseyGrahamSC from the president's son. 👀
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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4 Nov
Though polls had shown a close race, local observers urged caution, citing the state’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/senate…
In his candidacy’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. Image
Analyzing the spending Wednesday, @SCGOP Chairman @DrewMcKissick told me that, given Graham’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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4 Nov
JUST IN: @JoeCunninghamSC not conceding #SC01 for now. Campaign says in statement that "both candidates have agreed that every ballot must be counted and every voice heard before an election result is called.”

@NancyMace, however, tells me she accepts last night's race call.
Mace goes on to tell me that she hasn’t spoken with Cunningham or his campaign since the result was announced, adding “the ‘agreed to’ part is disappointing.”
Meanwhile, I’m at this @WaffleHouse in Ladson, SC, where Mace once worked. She’s just arrived to deliver her #SC01 victory speech.
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3 Nov
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/charle…
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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11 Oct
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 “one of the largest campaign war chests among Republican incumbents in the country.”
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9 Oct
Sen. ⁦@LindseyGrahamSC⁩ and ⁦@harrisonjaime⁩ 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/32aac71fc733dc…
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 it’s unnecessary.

“Whether Mr. Harrison attends tomorrow’s debate is his decision, not mine. I will be there,” he said yesterday.
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