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BlueMTexpat

(15,349 posts)
Mon Oct 28, 2019, 03:49 AM Oct 2019

GOP panics after Graham challenger breaks fundraising record, and new poll shows 7-point gap

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/10/19/1889178/-GOP-Panic-Graham-challenger-broke-a-fundraising-record-and-new-poll-shows-7-point-gap

Would it be loverly to see Lindsey out once and for all?

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham may soon learn that his plan to convert himself into Trump’s bootlicker wasn’t such a hot idea after all.

Although Graham is still currently the favorite to win in this safe Trump state, he is trending downward after several major embarrassments, with a historically low approval rating for an incumbent: 35%. Additionally, 58% said they want someone other than Graham representing them in the Senate. Although Graham remade himself into a sycophant, it has not helped him much as he tries to ride Trump’s coattails.

On the flip side, Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison has been steadily rising in the polls, with the latest national poll indicating that Harrison only trails Graham by seven points.
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t’s easy to discount that polling, of course—it was commissioned by The Collective PAC, which is devoted to electing more black people to office, and executed by Change Research, which has just a C+ rating on FiveThirtyEight. Yet other numbers don’t lie. This quarter, Harrison raised $2.1 million, which is the largest amount a Democratic Senate candidate has ever raised in South Carolina. That fundraising tally breaks the previous record of $1.5 million, which was set by—wait for it—Jaime Harrison … in the previous quarter. On top of that, most of Harrison’s funding comes from small donors, unlike Graham, with over 60,000 donors giving an average donation of $26. That grassroots support means that, unlike with large corporate donors, Harrison can return to the well several times.

Next quarter’s numbers are expected to be even higher. That is why the Republican Party is now shaking down their donors, in an attempt to pour money into a race that the GOP believes should not be at all competitive, but also is historic: If Harrison wins, South Carolina will be the first state to be represented by two African American senators, with the other being Republican Tim Scott.
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One can always hope.
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GOP panics after Graham challenger breaks fundraising record, and new poll shows 7-point gap (Original Post) BlueMTexpat Oct 2019 OP
Go Jaime Harrison! SunSeeker Oct 2019 #1
If he and Mitch were gone it would improve the Senate by 50%. BigmanPigman Oct 2019 #2
yes there would be an bdamomma Oct 2019 #11
a whole bunch of them NewJeffCT Oct 2019 #13
Ted Cruz bdamomma Oct 2019 #14
sadly NewJeffCT Oct 2019 #15
that's too bdamomma Oct 2019 #16
Boy, wouldn't it be great if the more they supported Trump the fewer votes they got. Kablooie Oct 2019 #3
This. BlueMTexpat Oct 2019 #7
this is from the 19th and was posted earlier. SleeplessinSoCal Oct 2019 #4
Sorry, I didn't BlueMTexpat Oct 2019 #8
no need to apologize. SleeplessinSoCal Oct 2019 #18
.. Demovictory9 Oct 2019 #5
Lenningrad Lindsey can get some rubles any time he wants... Sancho Oct 2019 #6
I seriously doubt they're "panicking" FBaggins Oct 2019 #9
Oh please, please, please. spanone Oct 2019 #10
I just gave bdamomma Oct 2019 #12
"once & for all" - They never go away for good!1 UTUSN Oct 2019 #17

bdamomma

(63,658 posts)
11. yes there would be an
Mon Oct 28, 2019, 09:00 AM
Oct 2019

improvement, those two first can be voted out, but there are a few more who could go too.

NewJeffCT

(56,827 posts)
13. a whole bunch of them
Mon Oct 28, 2019, 09:09 AM
Oct 2019

Cotton would be nice, but I don't think he's up in 2020. And, Jones holding his seat in Alabama would be a huge upset win.

Among those up in 2020 - Collins, McSally, Hyde-Smith, Tillis, Perdue and Isakson in Georgia, and hopefully the open seat in Kansas.

Kablooie

(18,572 posts)
3. Boy, wouldn't it be great if the more they supported Trump the fewer votes they got.
Mon Oct 28, 2019, 04:08 AM
Oct 2019

It’s what rightly should be the case.
Teach them that dishonoring their vows is a losing strategy.

BlueMTexpat

(15,349 posts)
8. Sorry, I didn't
Mon Oct 28, 2019, 06:57 AM
Oct 2019

see the earlier post.

I agree that it is an uphill battle, but there are good signs for Harrison.

Sancho

(9,065 posts)
6. Lenningrad Lindsey can get some rubles any time he wants...
Mon Oct 28, 2019, 05:48 AM
Oct 2019

so fund raising isn't going to beat him in SC.

FBaggins

(26,697 posts)
9. I seriously doubt they're "panicking"
Mon Oct 28, 2019, 08:58 AM
Oct 2019

Yes... it's easy to discount the poll.

This quarter, Harrison raised $2.1 million, which is the largest amount a Democratic Senate candidate has ever raised in South Carolina. That fundraising tally breaks the previous record of $1.5 million, which was set by—wait for it—Jaime Harrison … in the previous quarter.

Yet Harrison must spend some of that on a primary that Graham doesn't have (and must pay more for every dollar he raises)... and Graham's total was substantially higher and he has more than three times as much cash on hand.

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