LINDSEY GRAHAM'S DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGER NEARLY TIED IN HEAVILY-REPUBLICAN SOUTH CAROLINA, POLL SHOWS

[JonLP24]

Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is statistically tied with Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison, with the staunch pro-Trump incumbent seeing his favorability ratings plummet among independent voters.

Graham, who was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2002, is clinging to a 2-percentage point lead over Harrison, 47 to 45 percent, with nearly 10 percent of voters surveyed still remaining undecided about their 2020 vote. As the Change Research/Post and Courier newspaper poll notes, Graham performs poorly in hypothetical November election matchups as well as with voters who do not identify solely as Republicans. The statistical dead heat between Graham and Harrison, who has pulled in record fundraising in recent weeks, comes as the GOP senator has become one of President Donald Trump's most outspoken supporters during the ongoing impeachment inquiry.

Trump won the traditionally-Republican state of South Carolina in the 2016 presidential election by a margin of nearly 15 percentage points over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

https://www.newsweek.com/lindsey-graham-tied-democrat-south-carolina-senate-challenger-jaime-harrison-poll-1477336?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true

[dchill]

1. I gotta say that's MUSIC to my ears!

[NurseJackie]

3. Little Lindsey will have more free time for his dungeon.

[Salviati]

4. Help Jamie Harrison send linsey graham into retirement.

I'm sure he can find someplace nice in Moscow to settle down in...

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_harrison_fr_homepage_2019

[sprinkleeninow]

6. Done! Thx for link! 💙

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Pour it on Leningram Linsey!

Lickspittle for Trump and Putin.

[UTUSN]

7. K&R

[BigmanPigman]

8. Poor little Lindsey.....

I hate him as much as Moscow Mitch. So did the crowd at the protest I attended today. Lots of "Booos" heard whenever either one of them was mentioned by the speakers.

[gratuitous]

9. How can that be? The conservatives won big in the late British election!

I mean, sure, the Democrats won a smashing victory 13 months ago, and the swell is building for another one in 2020. But Boris Johnson won in Britain, so it's unpossible that any Republicans could be defeated, much less threatened in their next election. Republicans are so sure of their invincibility that a couple dozen of them have announced their retirements.

Hmmm. Maybe the media are selling the public a bill of goods to maintain ratings? Naaaah!

[Bleacher Creature]

10. I would love for this poll to be true, but it's almost certainly an outlier.

I'd love to be wrong, however, and hate being the naysayer, but it's going to be damn hard to win that seat.

[JonLP24]

11. I think they would pull this poll if it was an outlier

I remember when a poll had Bernie Sanders in the lead a few months back in a national poll they were quick to call their own poll an outlier.

Polling director acknowledges recent Monmouth survey was an outlier

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/08/28/politics/monmouth-poll-outlier/index.html

[Bleacher Creature]

15. That's good info. Thanks!

Like I said, I'd LOVE for this poll to be accurate. A Graham loss would go a long way towards restoring some of my faith in this country.

[Happyhippychick]

12. Just donated $18. My fellow Jews will know why

[Initech]

13. Lindsay, you're fired!

[boomer_wv]

14. I'll get excited.....

When I see a decent pollster showing these kind of results.

Change Research is a garbage poll.

[DENVERPOPS]

16. You gotta bet

That Putin is not only working on Trump's election, but Mitch's and Lindsey's......

[smirkymonkey]

17. I donated! Please help! I'm not an SC citizen, but I am serious about voting out

Lindsey, Mitch and a number of other republican obstructionists, so will do anything to help their opponents.

https://jaimeharrison.com/

[Thekaspervote]

21. Thx for the link...just donated!

It would be such an out of the ball park home run for democracy if little lindsey went away

[smirkymonkey]

24. Thank you!

We have to do every thing we can to get these traitors out of office!

[KelleyKramer]

18. Maybe he can get Trump to come campaign for him

Ask the Republicans in Kentucky and Louisiana how that will help him

[Rizen]

19. Graham is an invertebrate.

Screw him.

[Midnight Writer]

20. 10% Undecided is good for Challengers. That is 10% that is not thrilled with the Incumbent.

[diva77]

22. K&R!!!!!!!

[Botany]

23. South Carolina is an example of Republicans winning by some kind of cheating

S.C. is 35% African American and 11% (and growing) Hispanic those #s
should make it hard for the GOP to win a state wide race.