{"id":147428,"date":"2025-05-29T16:56:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=147428"},"modified":"2025-05-29T16:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:56:22","slug":"sen-lindsey-graham-gets-a-2026-challenge-from-democrat-annie-andrews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=147428","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sen. Lindsey Graham gets a 2026 challenge from Democrat Annie Andrews&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/sen-lindsey-graham-gets-2026-challenge-democrat-annie-122301425?cid=social_twitter_tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a>: &#8220;Dr. Annie Andrews, the South Carolina Democrat who unsuccessfully challenged Rep. Nancy Mace in 2022, says she&#8217;s running against Republican&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/lindsey-graham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sen. Lindsey Graham<\/a>&nbsp;in 2026, challenging the four-term incumbent in part due to what she characterized as his waffling positions over the course of his political career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe\u2019s changed his position on nearly every issue over that time and that\u2019s because, in my view, he doesn\u2019t stand for anything or believe in anything other than what it takes to get reelected,\u201d Andrews, a pediatrician in Charleston, told The Associated Press before a campaign rollout Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Andrews joins at least one other Democrat in a primary field.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News: &#8220;Dr. Annie Andrews, the South Carolina Democrat who unsuccessfully challenged Rep. Nancy Mace in 2022, says she&#8217;s running against Republican&nbsp;Sen. Lindsey Graham&nbsp;in 2026, challenging the four-term incumbent in part due to what she characterized as his waffling positions over the course of his political career. \u201cHe\u2019s changed his position on nearly every issue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147429,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147428\/revisions\/147429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}