SC is 'so red it is sunburned,' but Jaime Harrison might have a chance vs. Lindsey Graham
In a year full of unusual events, here's another a Democrat could actually win a U.S. Senate seat in South Carolina, a Republican stronghold that one political expert describes as "so red that it is sunburned."
Several polls show a dead heat between first-time candidate Jaime Harrison, 44, who lives in Columbia and is a former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, and Lindsey Graham, 65, a Republican from Seneca seeking his fourth term in the Senate.
In a phone interview with The Greenville News, Graham predicted voters will reject Democrats for embracing "the most radical agenda that I've ever seen," which he said includes abolishing the Electoral College and allowing the District of Columbia to become a state.
The platform approved at the Democratic National Convention does not address the Electoral College, established by Congress to indirectly elect the president, but it does call for making Washington, D.C., the nation's 51st state.
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