I asked Fry to rate GOP unity in the campaign’s closing days & Trump’s 2nd visit to SC for Darline Graham in as many weeks.

Another common theme is Rs pleading for support for Darline Graham.

“What is out there, that is an existential threat to SC values & our way of life,” gov nom Alan Wilson says, calling for unity that’s “greater than the petty differences that we squabble about during primaries.”

Also a theme of Rs’ warnings tonight against supporting Annie Andrews/Ds in the Senate is the leadership opportunities for Bernie Sanders/Chuck Schumer/Elizabeth Warren.

Ted Cruz also predicts AOC will be Ds’ 2028 pick if El-Sayed wins in MI.

“President Donald Trump is a blessing from God,” Tim Scott says.

I spoke with Scott moments ago, more to come.

A week out from Election Day, I asked Scott about the Senate map, Trump’s repeat trip here to SC & what the NRSC chairman’s closing message is for voters ⬇️

Sen Darline Graham tells this Myrtle Beach crowd Trump’s urging - just after she was sworn in as interim senator - wasn’t the only reason she decided to run for her brother’s seat.

Today I’m in Myrtle Beach, where Rep @RussellFrySC hosts his 3rd annual Freedom Fry & most South Carolina GOP candidates are expected to speak.

@Votejimjordan & @tedcruz are expected here tonight, too.

Eight days to Election Day.

Latest endorsements for Annie Andrews in the South Carolina Senate race: former GOP governor David Beasley and former Democratic governor Jim Hodges⬇️

He was just here last week & now it’s been announced that President Trump will return to South Carolina on Thursday to stump for Republican candidates, presumably to include Sen. Darline Graham.

This is an unprecedented general election Senate campaign visit to SC for Trump.

Today Trump told a rally in South Florida that US warships returning from the Middle East could stop over in Cuba on their way back from the Iran war, his latest suggestion of taking an interventionist approach to the nearby country.
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In an op-ed out today, the son of GOP Rep. Ralph Norman says he's voting for a Democrat - Annie Andrews - for the first time ever.

Ralph Norman lost to Sen. Darline Graham in the special SC primary.

11 days to Election Day.

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Today I’m in Columbia SC, where Sen @DarlineGrahamSC just held a news conference aimed at addressing ways she says Democrat Annie Andrews has “lied straight to our faces” about both of their records.

We asked Graham if she’s spoken to Trump - who campaigned for her here last night - about his waiver of the Russia sanctions bill, named for her late brother.

The answer was no, and she told me it will need to be a “private conversation.”

I asked Graham about the waiver on Saturday, a day after Trump blocked the bill. Here’s what she told me then.