Senate Race: Graham Nordone Endorsed, Threatened by Mary Peltola
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The recent endorsement marks the latest snub for Graham Nordone, as former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley threw her support behind Norman last week. Norman also has the support of Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and the late Graham’s former primary competitor, Mark Lynch.
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Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., the candidate who placed third in the Aug. 11 South Carolina special Republican U.S. Senate primary, has endorsed top-finisher Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C.
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Washington ExaminerDespite SFLA and other Palmetto State Republicans backing Norman, Graham Nordone has an arsenal of GOP endorsements, including that of President Donald Trump and Rep. Russell Fry (R-SC), a former rival who placed third in the special Republican primary, as well as a slate of Senate Republicans. The Washington Examiner reached out to Norman and Graham Nordone for comment.
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But the incumbent senator’s real threat, Alaska politics watchers say, is Mary Peltola, a Democrat who managed to twice win election to the state’s seat in the US House of Representatives, and is now vying tobeat him in November’s midterm elections in the US Senate. The Tuesday vote in the nonpartisan primary will see four candidates advance to the general election for the seat in November.
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The Daily WireThis was not the first time Harris’s PAC has pushed Peltola. On January 12, the day Peltola announced her candidacy, the same group sent a similar appeal that read, “This is the race that may determine control of the Senate.” The latest message emerged just days before Alaska’s August 18 nonpartisan primary. Under Alaska’s odd voting system, the top four finishers in the primary advance to November, regardless of party.
ABC NewsRepublican Dan J. Sullivan is challenging GOP Sen. Dan S. Sullivan. President Donald Trump is weighing in on the unusual Republican primary in Alaska, where a challenger with the same name as sitting senator Dan Sullivan is on the ballot, sparking confusion and accusations of "trickery" by Democrats in the race for the crucial seat.
Washington ExaminerTuesday’s primary also features an unusual complication: two candidates named Dan Sullivan. An Alaska judge cleared the way for Sen. Sullivan to share the ballot with another Dan Sullivan, a retired teacher and former U.S. Forest Service employee who is also seeking the seat, also as a Republican.
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01 Washington Examiner President Donald Trump is expected to campaign for interim Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) in South Carolina on Friday ahead of the Aug. 25 primary runoff.
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02 Fox News "President Trump needs fighters and allies in the Senate who will show up every day and get results. I believe Darline Graham will be exactly that," Fry said in part of a Friday post on X.
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03 ABC News "Because of the trickery in the Voting, the Crooked, Radical Left Dumocrats have put up another man named ‘Dan Sullivan,’ and they did this to take Votes away from our Great Senator of the same name. Democrats are trying to ‘trick’ Alaskans, and treat Alaskan Voters with contempt," Trump posted Friday to his social media platform.
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04 The Guardian US Sullivan won election in 2014 after beating first-term Democratic senator Mark Begich, and has been a reliable Republican vote in his two terms, hewing much closer to his party’s agenda than the state’s senior Republican senator, Lisa Murkowski, who has grown prominent nationwide for repeatedly bucking Trump.
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05 The Daily Wire Former Rep. Mary Peltola’s (D-AK) Senate campaign made clear this week that it wants nothing to do with former Vice President Kamala Harris’s message of support.
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