Darline Graham
RepublicanIncumbent
U.S. Senator since July 2026 (appointed); former head of the South Carolina Commission for the Blind
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U.S. Senate · Nov 3, 2026
Incumbent: Darline Graham, running for re-election.
Senator Lindsey Graham, who won the June Republican primary, died on July 11, 2026; his sister Darline Graham was appointed to the seat and won an August special primary runoff to become the Republican nominee.
U.S. Senator since July 2026 (appointed); former head of the South Carolina Commission for the Blind
Business professor at the University of South Carolina; former chair of the South Carolina Libertarian Party
Pediatrician; 2022 Democratic nominee for South Carolina's 1st congressional district
Constitution Party nominee from Greenville
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RepublicanDarline Graham
Supports finishing the border wall, fully funding border enforcement, ending catch-and-release and removing immigrants in the country illegally who commit crimes. Opposes amnesty and taxpayer-funded benefits for people in the country illegally.
LibertarianKasie Whitener
Supports a resident-worker program and due process with warrants in immigration enforcement. Opposes immigration sweeps by masked agents and federal deployments into cities and states.
DemocraticAnnie Andrews
Supports immigration reform that strengthens border security, creates a path to citizenship, keeps families together and ensures due process.
ConstitutionMark Hackett
No published position found.
RepublicanDarline Graham
Supports making the Trump tax cuts permanent, lower taxes and less regulation for small businesses, and work requirements for able-bodied adults receiving benefits.
LibertarianKasie Whitener
No published position found.
DemocraticAnnie Andrews
Supports ending what she calls tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and corporate polluters.
ConstitutionMark Hackett
No published position found.
RepublicanDarline Graham
Opposes abortion and taxpayer funding of abortion, and supports adoption and pregnancy resource centers.
LibertarianKasie Whitener
No published position found.
DemocraticAnnie Andrews
Supports restoring the protections of Roe v. Wade and guaranteed access to contraception and infertility care.
ConstitutionMark Hackett
No published position found.
RepublicanDarline Graham
Opposes gun registries, red-flag laws she describes as confiscation, and bans on firearms. Supports concealed carry reciprocity.
LibertarianKasie Whitener
No published position found.
DemocraticAnnie Andrews
Supports universal background checks, a ban on what she calls weapons of war, safe storage laws, and funding for community violence prevention.
ConstitutionMark Hackett
No published position found.
RepublicanDarline Graham
Says she would protect Medicare and Social Security for seniors who paid into them.
LibertarianKasie Whitener
Supports a commission, modeled on military base-closing commissions, to recommend Social Security reforms that Congress would agree to enact, and a similar review of Medicare procurement.
DemocraticAnnie Andrews
No published position found.
ConstitutionMark Hackett
No published position found.
RepublicanDarline Graham
No published position found.
LibertarianKasie Whitener
Supports lower federal spending, a simpler tax code and a balanced budget amendment. Says tax increases cannot resolve the debt and calls for Social Security and Medicare reforms.
DemocraticAnnie Andrews
No published position found.
ConstitutionMark Hackett
Says he would vote against all legislation that does not reduce the national debt.
RepublicanDarline Graham
No published position found.
LibertarianKasie Whitener
Supports separating health insurance from employment and from routine care, and removing government from the health insurance business.
DemocraticAnnie Andrews
Supports a public option and other ways to expand access to affordable health care, protecting and expanding Medicaid and Medicare, lower prescription drug prices, vaccine access and keeping rural hospitals open.
ConstitutionMark Hackett
No published position found.
RepublicanDarline Graham
No published position found.
LibertarianKasie Whitener
Opposes unilateral military action, interventionism and preemptive war, and supports diplomacy and free trade. Says the Iran conflict is not a necessary war.
DemocraticAnnie Andrews
No published position found.
ConstitutionMark Hackett
Supports ending U.S. funding for Israel, Ukraine and the United Nations, withdrawing from NATO, and ending wars that Congress has not declared.
RepublicanDarline Graham
Supports voter ID and up-to-date voter rolls. Opposes federal control of state elections and any effort to let noncitizens vote.
LibertarianKasie Whitener
No published position found.
DemocraticAnnie Andrews
No published position found.
ConstitutionMark Hackett
No published position found.
RepublicanDarline Graham
Opposes efforts to defund the police, supports funding and training for officers, and supports tough penalties for fentanyl traffickers and violent repeat offenders.
LibertarianKasie Whitener
No published position found.
DemocraticAnnie Andrews
No published position found.
ConstitutionMark Hackett
No published position found.
RepublicanDarline Graham
Supports resources for South Carolina's military installations and service members, and says she would hold the VA accountable for veterans' care.
LibertarianKasie Whitener
No published position found.
DemocraticAnnie Andrews
No published position found.
ConstitutionMark Hackett
No published position found.
RepublicanDarline Graham
No published position found.
LibertarianKasie Whitener
Supports ending protectionist policies and laws.
DemocraticAnnie Andrews
No published position found.
ConstitutionMark Hackett
No published position found.
RepublicanDarline Graham
No published position found.
LibertarianKasie Whitener
No published position found.
DemocraticAnnie Andrews
Supports raising wages, strengthening workers' rights, and expanding affordable child care and paid family leave.
ConstitutionMark Hackett
No published position found.
RepublicanDarline Graham
No published position found.
LibertarianKasie Whitener
No published position found.
DemocraticAnnie Andrews
Supports full funding for public schools and special education, higher pay for teachers and school staff, affordable child care and early learning, and free and reduced-price school meals.
ConstitutionMark Hackett
No published position found.
RepublicanDarline Graham
No published position found.
LibertarianKasie Whitener
No published position found.
DemocraticAnnie Andrews
Supports banning corporate PAC and dark money, barring members of Congress from trading stocks, term limits and stronger ethics rules. Says she takes no corporate PAC money.
ConstitutionMark Hackett
No published position found.