Sen.Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., squeaked out a win Tuesday night in a crowded primary race for the Republican nomination in the Palmetto State. Though there were six candidates, the contest truly fell between Graham and businessman Mark Lynch.
Their primary battle again brought forth the ongoing feud within the GOP, pitting Trump-aligned candidates against the edges of the president’s own MAGA movement. Graham is running for a fifth term in the upper chamber and is fresh off successfully advancing the GOP’s $70 billion immigration enforcement package.He’s now headed to the general election in November, where he’ll face off against Dr.
Annie Andrews, a pediatrician, who survived a three-way primary contest in South Carolina on Tuesday.TRUMP ENDORSES SEN.LINDSEY GRAHAM FOR RE-ELECTION: 'HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN'Sen.
Lindsey Graham speaks during a demonstration for human rights in Iran at Theresienwiese during the 62nd Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, on Feb.14, 2026.
(Hannes Magerstaedt/Getty Images)He is also one of President Donald Trump's most ardent allies in the Senate and was endorsed by the president early last year.Meanwhile, Lynch was recently endorsed by Trump’s former National Counterterrorism Center director, Joe Kent."He is the America First candidate," Kent said in an endorsement video on X."He's gonna keep us out of all these foreign wars, and he is the best postured right now to get the warhawk neocon Lindsey Graham out of office."TRUMP SCORES VICTORY DESPITE GROWING GOP DIVIDE AFTER SENATE PASSES $70B ICE, BORDER PATROL FUNDING PACKAGELynch also called for "more MTGs, Gaetzes and Massies" in Congress, referring to former Reps.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz and one of Trump’s biggest critics in the GOP, Rep.Thomas Massie, R-Ky.Both Greene and Massie have evolved into some of the most vocal critics of Trump and the administration.
Massie, however, was felled last month in a hotly-contested primary race in Kentucky by a...