{"id":42895,"date":"2026-08-17T15:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42895"},"modified":"2026-08-17T15:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T19:59:51","slug":"danielle-vinson-reflects-on-aug-11-special-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/danielle-vinson-reflects-on-aug-11-special-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle Vinson reflects on Aug. 11 special election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Aug. 11 Republican special primary, Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/danielle-vinson\/\">Danielle Vinson<\/a> spoke with Steve Garrison of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/graham-norman-advance-to-gop-senate-runoff-in-south-carolina\/\">Courthouse News Service<\/a>. Darline Graham Nordone and Ralph Norman emerged as the top vote-getters in the contest precipitated by the sudden passing of Sen. Lindsey Graham. Vinson, a Furman alum and professor of politics and international affairs, said both Graham and Norman could benefit from endorsements from losing candidates. Vinson speculated on the notion that Norman might levy additional criticism on his opponent ahead of the Aug. 25 runoff. But, Vinson said, that would be a risky approach. \u201cSouth Carolina does not reward nasty campaigning,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle Vinson tells Courthouse News Service that candidates in the Aug. 25 runoff must tread carefully in a state that does not reward &#8220;nasty campaigning.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":37486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3543,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-courthouse-news-service","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42895"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42901,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42895\/revisions\/42901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}