{"id":5611,"date":"2026-06-10T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=5611"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T08:00:26","slug":"sen-lindsey-graham-wins-south-carolina-gop-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/sen-lindsey-graham-wins-south-carolina-gop-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Lindsey Graham Wins South Carolina GOP Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <em>Breitbart News<\/em>, <strong>Graham<\/strong> captured 106,164 votes, representing 59.3 percent of the total with 35 percent of precincts reporting. His opponent <strong>Mark Lynch<\/strong> received 48,171 votes, or 26.9 percent, based on Associated Press tallies.<\/p>\n<p>The South Carolina Republican will now advance to the general election in November, where he will face Democrat <strong>Annie Andrews<\/strong>, who defeated challengers <strong>Brandon P. Brown<\/strong> and <strong>Kyle Freeman<\/strong> in the Democratic primary.<\/p>\n<p>Graham&#8217;s primary victory comes after receiving crucial support from President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>, who issued his endorsement on Thursday ahead of the Tuesday vote. Trump urged South Carolina Republicans to back Graham and thanked the senator for advancing the SAVE AMERICA Act for a vote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DecisionDeskHQ\/status\/2064500793470779631\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump had previously endorsed Graham in April, when he described Lynch as someone who supports Representative <strong>Thomas Massie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The commanding victory margin represents a significant turnaround from March polling that showed Graham in more precarious territory. An InsiderAdvantage poll conducted May 13-14 showed Graham with 56 percent support among likely Republican primary voters, while Lynch stood at 13 percent.<\/p>\n<p>However, earlier internal polling provided to <em>Breitbart News<\/em> in March had indicated a much tighter race, with Graham registering just 41 percent support on an initial ballot compared to Lynch&#8217;s 21 percent. A third candidate, <strong>Paul Dans<\/strong>, polled at 11 percent at that time, with 22 percent of voters undecided.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Boyle<\/strong>, Washington Bureau Chief at <em>Breitbart News<\/em>, reported the March polling data showed Graham well below the 50 percent threshold typically considered safe for an incumbent, suggesting potential vulnerability in the solidly pro-Trump primary.<\/p>\n<p>On primary day, Graham took to social media platform X to rally supporters, emphasizing his alliance with President Trump and urging South Carolina residents to cast their ballots before polls closed at 7:00 PM.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/2064418161261232216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The senator touted Trump&#8217;s complete and total endorsement and pledged to continue delivering results for South Carolina voters alongside the former president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Lindsey Graham won South Carolina&#8217;s Republican primary with 59.3 percent of the vote, defeating challenger Mark Lynch and advancing to face Democrat Annie Andrews in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":5610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[196,3515,6034,4354,6035,2243],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-5611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-mark-lynch","tag-republican-primary","tag-save-america-act","tag-south-carolina","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5664,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5611\/revisions\/5664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5611"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=5611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}