{"id":698174,"date":"2026-11-04T03:05:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=698174"},"modified":"2026-11-04T03:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T03:05:49","slug":"annie-andrews-flips-south-carolina-senate-seat-thwarting-gops-pick-to-succeed-late-lindsey-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=698174","title":{"rendered":"Annie Andrews flips South Carolina Senate seat, thwarting GOP&#8217;s pick to succeed late Lindsey Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Annie Andrews pulled off one of the night&#8217;s biggest surprises, defeating Sen. Darline Graham and becoming the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from South Carolina in nearly three decades.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/11\/03\/Election_2_26_South_Carolina_Senate__694_s1440x939.jpg?e8c2f33bdb3b7902cbb80549ac315f688920966f\" title=\"Annie Andrews flips South Carolina Senate seat, thwarting GOP&apos;s pick to succeed late Lindsey Graham\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Annie Andrews pulled off one of the night&#8217;s biggest surprises, defeating Sen. Darline Graham and becoming the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from South Carolina in nearly three decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698174","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=698174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}