{"id":8990,"date":"2020-10-05T16:14:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T16:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/10\/05\/jaime-harrison-says-theres-one-battle-hes-already-won\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:35:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:35:33","slug":"jaime-harrison-says-theres-one-battle-hes-already-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/jaime-harrison-says-theres-one-battle-hes-already-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaime Harrison says there&#8217;s one battle he&#8217;s already won"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polls show Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison is neck and neck with incumbent Republican Senator Lindsey Graham for the U.S. Senate race in South Carolina. CNN National Political Writer Brandon Tensley, a 2012 Furman alumnus, writes a piece for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/10\/03\/politics\/jaime-harrison-black-voters-south-carolina\/index.html\">CNN Politics<\/a><\/strong>. He reaches out to Furman&#8217;s Danielle Vinson &#8217;89, a politics and international affairs professor, who said, &#8220;Harrison&#8217;s campaign illustrates that Democrats can&#8217;t just give up on South Carolina. Even in the short term, his presence in the race will help some congressional candidates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A German studies and political science graduate, Tensley received an a master&#8217;s in European politics and society from the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polls show Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison is neck and neck with incumbent Republican Senator Lindsey Graham for the U.S. Senate race in South Carolina. CNN National Political Writer Brandon Tensley, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":3591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,16,69,32],"tags":[408,409,528,529],"class_list":["post-8990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-modern-languages-and-literature","category-on-the-record","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-jaime-harrison","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-south-carolina","tag-u-s-senate-race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8990","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=8990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}