{"id":150074,"date":"2025-07-30T10:53:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=150074"},"modified":"2025-07-30T10:53:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:53:55","slug":"project-2025-architect-paul-dans-challenging-lindsey-graham-in-south-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=150074","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Project 2025 Architect Paul Dans Challenging Lindsey Graham In South Carolina&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/lindsey-graham-paul-dans-primary_n_688791e8e4b067dd81475040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HuffPo<\/a>: &#8220;A key contributor to the Project 2025 policy blueprint for the second Donald Trump administration plans to challenge Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) next year in the Republican primary election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Paul Dans announced his intentions\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/politics\/paul-dans-project-2025-senate-candidate-gop\/article_d46b0083-d1a4-44d6-b3c7-09a9e94682fe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in an interview with The Post and Courier<\/a>\u00a0published on Monday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe have seen where the swamp is, and the swamp is the United States Senate,\u201d Dans told the paper. \u201cAnd the top swamp critter is none other than Lindsey Graham.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Graham has served in the U.S. Senate since 2003 and was an early opponent of Trump\u2019s,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/727604522156228608?lang=en\">infamously saying<\/a>\u00a0in 2016 that if Republicans nominated Trump, the party would be destroyed. He has since fashioned himself into a top Trump booster and won the president\u2019s endorsement earlier this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPo: &#8220;A key contributor to the Project 2025 policy blueprint for the second Donald Trump administration plans to challenge Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) next year in the Republican primary election. Paul Dans announced his intentions\u00a0in an interview with The Post and Courier\u00a0published on Monday morning. \u201cWe have seen where the swamp is, and the swamp&#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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150074","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\/150074","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=150074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150075,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150074\/revisions\/150075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}