How did Republicans lose a Senate seat in fireball-red South Carolina?

Bitter postmortem under way as party comes to terms with Darline Graham’s stunning loss to Annie Andrews It’s not that Shane Brown somehow didn’t know about the US Senate election in South Carolina. Nor was he unaware that the outcome of the race between Senator Darline Graham and her Democratic challenger, Annie Andrews, was shockingly competitive when he refrained from voting Tuesday. The campaigns would not let him forget it. Continue reading...

George Chidi in Moncks Corner, South Carolina · Thu, Nov 5, 2026, 4:00 AM
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How did Republicans lose a Senate seat in fireball-red South Carolina?

Bitter postmortem under way as party comes to terms with Darline Graham’s stunning loss to Annie Andrews

It’s not that Shane Brown somehow didn’t know about the US Senate election in South Carolina. Nor was he unaware that the outcome of the race between Senator Darline Graham and her Democratic challenger, Annie Andrews, was shockingly competitive when he refrained from voting Tuesday.

The campaigns would not let him forget it.

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