{"id":44171,"date":"2026-11-05T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=44171"},"modified":"2026-11-05T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:50:00","slug":"danielle-vinson-describes-a-monumental-republican-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/danielle-vinson-describes-a-monumental-republican-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle Vinson describes a &#8216;monumental&#8217; Republican upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2026\/11\/annie-andrews-south-carolina-senate-democrat-darline-graham-lindsey-graham\/\">Mother Jones<\/a> magazine turned to Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/danielle-vinson\/\">Danielle Vinson<\/a> for comment ahead of the midterm elections. Vinson, a professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/politics-international-affairs\/\">politics and international affairs<\/a>, told the nonprofit news source that South Carolina voters would be looking for a more independently minded candidate than Darline Graham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey would want a candidate who\u2019s willing to stand up to the president and encourage him to pull out of the war with Iran or address the affordability issues more head on,\u201d Vinson said. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t think they\u2019re seeing any sign whatsoever that Darline Graham would stand up to Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the midterm election, Furman&#8217;s Danielle Vinson spoke to Mother Jones magazine about what South Carolinians are looking for in a U.S. Senate candidate.<\/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":[3,6,3556,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-mother-jones-magazine","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44171","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=44171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44173,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44171\/revisions\/44173"}],"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=44171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}