{"id":8928,"date":"2020-08-26T13:59:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T13:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/26\/sen-graham-may-be-in-trouble-with-re-election-in-south-carolina\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:34:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:34:37","slug":"sen-graham-may-be-in-trouble-with-re-election-in-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/sen-graham-may-be-in-trouble-with-re-election-in-south-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Graham may be &#8216;in trouble&#8217; with re-election in South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/sen-graham-powerful-trump-ally-in-trouble-with-reelection-in-south-carolina\">FOX News<\/a><\/strong> article reports that Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham may be in for his toughest re-election fight yet against well-funded Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison. Danielle Vinson, a professor of politics and international affairs at Furman University, said Harrison&#8217;s attack against Graham has been nuanced and effective.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In South Carolina, you&#8217;re not going to win a statewide race by attacking Republicans, per se, they&#8217;re the largest voting bloc in the state,&#8221; Vinson said. &#8220;And so you&#8217;ve got to be more nuanced about it and (Harrison) really has&#8230;He&#8217;s condemning what we&#8217;ve seen in Lindsey Graham the last three and a half years. And I think that&#8217;s resonating in certain parts of the state in ways that may surprise Graham.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A FOX News article reports that Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham may be in for his toughest re-election fight yet against well-funded Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison. Danielle Vinson, a professor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,69,32],"tags":[405,408,409],"class_list":["post-8928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-on-the-record","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-2020-senate-race","tag-jaime-harrison","tag-lindsey-graham"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928","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=8928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}