Annie Andrews

Annie Andrews defeats Darline Graham in South Carolina Senate race

• Annie Andrews won the South Carolina Senate race, becoming the first Democrat to represent the state since 1998.
• Andrews defeated Darline Graham, whom South Carolina’s governor had appointed to serve out her brother Lindsey Graham’s unfinished term.
• A New York Times/Siena poll conducted the week before the election showed Andrews and Graham tied at 48%.
• South Carolina elected Annie Andrews as its first woman to the U.S. Senate.
• The Guardian reported that Andrews campaigned on healthcare affordability during her Senate campaign.
• LGBTQ+ advocates criticized Andrews’s final-month advertisement, which referred to trans women as “biological men.”