{"id":9040,"date":"2020-11-05T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/11\/05\/democrats-scramble-to-wrest-control-of-us-senate\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:36:11","slug":"democrats-scramble-to-wrest-control-of-us-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/democrats-scramble-to-wrest-control-of-us-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats scramble to wrest control of US Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jaime Harrison, Democratic challenger for the U.S. Senate race in South Carolina, put up a valiant fight against incumbent Lindsey Graham, who now embarks on his fourth term in office. Danielle Vinson, a Furman University politics and international affairs professor, says the race will change South Carolina politics going forward. \u201cJamie Harrison has energized voters who have felt for years now that their vote doesn\u2019t matter very much,\u201d she said in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/democrats-scramble-to-wrest-control-of-u-s-senate\/\">Courthouse News Service<\/a><\/strong> report. \u201c&#8230; this race puts people on notice that Democrats can compete. It means Republicans had better be careful about not taking those voters for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaime Harrison, Democratic challenger for the U.S. Senate race in South Carolina, put up a valiant fight against incumbent Lindsey Graham, who now embarks on his fourth term in office. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,32],"tags":[408,409,529],"class_list":["post-9040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-jaime-harrison","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-u-s-senate-race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040","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=9040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}