GOP House member on ’embarrassing’ South Carolina prospects: ‘Darline is dragging Rs’

A House Republican called the competitive Senate race in South Carolina “embarrassing,” adding that incumbent Sen. Darline Graham (R) is “dragging Rs down the ticket.”

“Republicans won this seat by 18 points. The fact it’s this close and the speaker has to come to SC 1 to drag the R across the finish line is embarrassing,” the anonymous member wrote in an exchange posted Thursday by Joe Khalil, a NewsNation senior congressional correspondent, on the social platform X.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is expected to campaign in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, according to local news station WCSC.

A tight Senate race is unfolding in South Carolina between Graham........

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