Lindsey Graham is facing his most serious opponent yet: an exceptionally well-funded, politically connected, centrist Democrat who’s forcing election observers to wonder if South Carolina might, improbably, be in play
Donors and political experts agree Harrison’s path to victory is a narrow one. “If Graham’s fortunes are closely tied to Trump’s ...
In high school, Harrison volunteered for the campaign of House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn—the first African American elected to Congress from South Carolina since Reconstruction. In 1993, just after Clyburn took office, Harrison was named president of his school’s chapter of the National Honor Society. The 11th grader called the congressman and asked him to speak at his swearing-in ceremony. “Who would have enough guts to do that?” Clyburn remembers thinking when he accepted the invitation.
In 2013, Harrison went home again, this time to lead the South Carolina Democratic Party. According to Clyburn, Harrison tackled a critical issue: The allegation that Democrats “take the Black vote for granted.” He started a fellowship program that has trained five groups of young people—many of whom are Black—to become part of a pipeline of Democratic candidates in the state. Supporters say he helped lay the groundwork for more white voters to return to the party they had long since abandoned.
He filed paperwork to run for the Senate in February 2019, and formally launched his campaign that May. His fundraising prowess was not immediately apparent. In the first quarter of last year, he raised just $231,000. But by the third quarter, after Graham gave an outraged speech calling the Brett Kavanaugh hearings “the most unethical sham since I’ve been in politics,” Harrison pulled in more than $2.2 million, and the next quarter nearly $3.6 million.
Donald, who is Black, said she accompanied her father to the polls when she was too young to vote. Now, she admits, voting is “something I want to get better at.” A memo released by Harrison’s campaign in early February laid out a clear, if ambitious, path to victory. He planned to register a quarter of eligible African Americans, mobilize “new and inconsistent” voters of color and “persuade white suburban voters who are already moving away from Republicans.” Harrison was also counting on some Republicans to abandon Graham for more conservative candidates. About 6.
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