Meet the South Carolina Democrat looking to flip Lindsey Graham’s Senate seat
Photograph: Courtesy Dr Annie Andrews CampaignView image in fullscreenDr Annie Andrews at a campaign event. “It’s a profound moment for the whole state of South Carolina.”For more than a year Andrews, a Democrat, had been building a formidable grassroots campaign designed to unseat Graham in the midterm elections. “The problems that South Carolinians are facing did not change over that weekend,” Andrews says by phone from her base in Mount Pleasant.
- ▪Photograph: Courtesy Dr Annie Andrews CampaignView image in fullscreenDr Annie Andrews at a campaign event.
- ▪“It’s a profound moment for the whole state of South Carolina.”For more than a year Andrews, a Democrat, had been building a formidable grassroots campaign designed to unseat Graham in the midterm elections.
- ▪“The problems that South Carolinians are facing did not change over that weekend,” Andrews says by phone from her base in Mount Pleasant.
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Dr Annie Andrews at a campaign event. Photograph: Courtesy Dr Annie Andrews CampaignView image in fullscreenDr Annie Andrews at a campaign event. Photograph: Courtesy Dr Annie Andrews CampaignSouth CarolinaInterviewMeet the South Carolina Democrat looking to flip Lindsey Graham’s Senate seatDavid Smith in Columbia, South CarolinaDr Annie Andrews says her ‘mission remains the same’ as she now aims to unseat Darline Graham, sister of the late Republican senatorSun 26 Jul 2026 09.00 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleIt was early Sunday morning and Dr Annie Andrews was far from the political fray, dropping her youngest daughter off at a summer camp, when she heard the news.“It was shocking and unbelievable,” she says of the death of Lindsey Graham, a Republican senator who defined South…
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