{"id":639348,"date":"2026-07-22T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=639348"},"modified":"2026-07-22T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:00:00","slug":"birthright-senatorship-grahams-sister-announces-bid-for-full-term-as-mace-opts-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=639348","title":{"rendered":"‘Birthright Senatorship’? – Graham’s Sister Announces Bid For Full Term As Mace Opts Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Birthright Senatorship’? – Graham’s Sister Announces Bid For Full Term As Mace Opts Out<\/span><\/p>\n

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Three days after President Trump publicly urged her to run, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham on Monday afternoon announced that — unsatisfied with serving as an obviously unqualified interim senator through January — she will run for the full six-year-term<\/strong> that starts in January. The development seemed to brush another potential candidate off the plate, but another one joined the field on Monday. Possibly seeing Trump’s endorsement as too ridiculous to be fully intimidating, others may join a field that officially has five candidates.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Hard pass. Birthright senatorship is idiotic. https:\/\/t.co\/RRQbCrNEDl<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Graham’s sister made the announcement on Sean Hannity’s Fox News<\/em><\/a> show on Monday night, but a clip of her declaring that she’d run was posted earlier that afternoon, perhaps with the intent to discourage other candidates from filing when the window officially opens today; it closes on Tuesday the 28th:\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve made a decision. I\u2019m in…<\/strong>\u00a0I can\u2019t see it any other way. I just don\u2019t. I\u2019ve thought, and I\u2019ve prayed, and he\u2019s worked so hard for so long. I just, I can\u2019t just let that die. I\u2019ve got to step in and carry on his legacy.<\/strong> I know he cared about the people of South Carolina so deeply. He worked so hard for them, and I feel like I can do that, too.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To be clear, Lindsey<\/strong>\u00a0Graham’s “legacy” centers on relentless advocacy for bloody, expensive and often counterproductive regime-change interventions <\/strong>around the globe, to include collaborating with Israeli Prime Minister<\/a> Benjamin Netanyahu to persuade Trump to launch a war on Iran on false premises<\/a>, and fostering the ouster of Ukraine’s democratically-elected president before then leading the charge to pour billions of dollars of weapons into an economy-damaging proxy war against Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I cannot begin to fathom having no political involvement, tragically losing my brother or sister, and then a week later launching a political campaign saying I deserve their seat.<\/p>\n

The elites don\u2019t care about representing us. To them voting is just an annoying formality. https:\/\/t.co\/QTk48IHnOb<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dan Bostic (@danbostic) July 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The start of the new week also brought us a rebranding of Graham’s sister<\/strong>. When South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster appointed her to be a placeholder for the remainder of her brother’s term that ends in January — and in the days since — she was universally referred to as Darline Nordone or Darline Graham Nordone. With her announcement, she’s suddenly “Darline Graham,” even though she remains married to Larry Nordone<\/strong>, about whom very little is publicly known.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0<\/strong>Darline Graham relabeling is obviously meant to capitalize on name recognition, which, aside from the Trump endorsement, is her only political asset.\u00a0She has never held an elected office<\/strong>. She’s commissioner of the South Carolina Commission for the Blind, and previously held a communications role in the\u00a0South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department.\u00a0\u00a0Ever the Trump today, Hannity tried using Monday’s softball interview to polish Darline Graham’s thin resume.<\/strong>\u00a0“You’ve had your own life and success<\/a>,” he said. “You have been the commissioner of South Carolina’s commission for the blind. You’ve held this position since 2019. It’s a 130 person agency, $90 million budget you ran, 10 offices across South Carolina … you’ve got a lot of experience.”<\/strong> \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Darline Graham, who seemingly buys her ladies’ US-flag brooches at the same place as Mark Levin<\/a>, called herself Darline Nordone up until Monday<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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At least one potential opponent seemed to find Trump’s endorsement sufficiently threatening: Rep. Nancy Mace, who’s poised to hand over her House seat in January after having foregone reelection for a failed bid for governor, had\u00a0teased at a run<\/a>\u00a0on social media within hours of Lindsey Graham’s death. On Monday, however, Mace announced she will not enter the GOP special primary election<\/strong> that will take place on Aug. 11, with a potential run-off of the top two finishers on Aug 25.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m not running for the U.S. Senate, not because I\u2019m backing down from a fight<\/a>, but because the one I\u2019m already in matters right now,\u201d she said, referring to her work on laws to protect women and girls who are victims of sexual misconduct.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Undaunted, Congressman Russell Fry jumped into the race<\/strong> on Monday. Fry was reportedly hand-picked by Trump to unseat Republican Tom Rice in 2022, as payback for Rice’s vote to impeach Trump over the Jan 6, 2021 Capitol Hill riot. He won and is considered close to the Trump team.\u00a0\u201cThere is no other way to put it:\u00a0Lindsey Graham\u00a0was one of a kind<\/a>. There is no replacing him. But I believe the best way to honor his legacy is to fight alongside the President just as steadfastly as he did,\u201d Fry said in a statement. Hedging his bets, Fry will also continue pursuing reelection to the House.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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South Carolina – meet your new Lisa Murkowski!<\/p>\n

She will be the Senator that represents your grandchildren.<\/p>\n

And you had no say in it at all. https:\/\/t.co\/AfmCebOhlX<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dan Bostic (@danbostic) July 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nordone<\/s> Graham and Fry join a field that includes\u00a0businessman Mark Lynch<\/strong>, who was trounced by Lindsey Graham in the June GOP primary; Duke Buckner, a lawyer<\/strong> who has previously run for the state’s heavily-Democratic 6th Congressional District seat; and US<\/strong>\u00a0Rep. Ralph Norman. <\/strong>At 73 years old, Norman’s age might be a liability, but he’s picked up endorsements from Florida Sen. Rick Scott, Utah Sen. Mike Lee, Turning Point Action and Nancy Mace.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The winner will go up against Democrat pediatrician Annie Andrews, who previously failed to unseat Mace, and who has founded a PAC<\/a> focusing on issues like climate change, gun control and voting rights. Before Lindsey Graham suddenly died on July 11 from an aortic dissection, the Cook Political Report rated the South Carolina seat “Solid R.<\/a>” That’s unlikely to change no matter who wins the Aug 11 GOP primary.<\/p>\n

The big question is whether Trump’s endorsement and outside spending in a very short race can overcome Darline Graham’s lack of credentials<\/strong> — and perhaps some reluctance among South Carolina Republicans to see their Senate seat treated like inheritable property. So far there’s no indication there will be a debate<\/strong> among the candidates<\/strong>. That’s a shame for South Carolina voters, but Darline Graham must be relieved that she won’t have to face at least four other candidates and a moderator grilling her on a variety of national and international issues she likely knows very little about and has even less experience articulating.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 07\/21\/2026 – 23:00<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Birthright Senatorship’? – Graham’s Sister Announces Bid For Full Term As Mace Opts Out Three days after President Trump publicly urged her to run, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham on Monday afternoon announced that — unsatisfied with serving as an obviously unqualified interim senator through January — she will run for the… Continue reading ‘Birthright Senatorship’? – Graham’s Sister Announces Bid For Full Term As Mace Opts Out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":639349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/639349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}