2026-08-11T10:12:46.329Z / 路透社
华盛顿8月11日路透电 — 南卡罗来纳州选民将于周二前往投票站，决定达琳·格雷厄姆是否应接替她上月去世的兄长、参议员林赛·格雷厄姆，作为11月美国参议院选举的共和党候选人。
在这位参议员因心脏病突发去世后，州长亨利·麦克马斯特任命达琳·格雷厄姆完成其剩余任期至次年1月初。唐纳德·特朗普总统为这位从未担任过公职的达琳·格雷厄姆背书，支持她竞选完整的六年任期，称这是对她兄长“绝佳的致敬”。
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但批评人士表示，她的竞选依托家族知名度和总统背书，自身却没有从政记录，带有强行加冕的意味。
周二的选举共有十名候选人参选。获胜者将对阵民主党人安妮·安德鲁斯——一名儿科医生，在7月初时其竞选资金储备超过300万美元。
如果周二的初选中没有候选人获得多数票，得票前两名的候选人将在8月25日进行决选。
格雷厄姆的竞争对手包括美国众议员拉尔夫·诺曼和拉塞尔·弗莱、前州长马克·桑福德以及自筹资金的格林维尔商人马克·林奇。
林赛·格雷厄姆在6月9日的初选中以近28个百分点的优势获胜，寻求连任第五届参议院任期。获得近29%选票、位列第二的林奇是本次特别初选中唯一来自原初选举阵营的候选人。
林奇在那次初选中获得了超过13万张选票，这表明在林赛·格雷厄姆去世前，部分共和党初选选民就已有更换候选人的意愿。
“民众对此怒不可遏”，针对“达琳·格雷厄姆的加冕”，林奇在采访中说道，“任命她担任临时参议员至1月是可以的，但不应让她竞选公职。”
格雷厄姆预计将进入决选，但质疑者对她的资历以及总统在多位经过往竞选审查过的更合格候选人中选择背书她的决定提出了疑问。她的竞争对手预计，周二未投票给她的选民会在决选阶段支持她的对手。
特朗普在2024年以近18个百分点的优势赢得南卡罗来纳州。
在采访中，共和党人对特朗普在南卡罗来纳州的背书效力提出了质疑。此前特朗普曾为两名州长竞选决选候选人背书，但民调显示他最初支持的副州长帕梅拉·埃维特即将输给总检察长艾伦·威尔逊。
曾竞选州长失利的美国众议员南希·梅斯预测，格雷厄姆的参议院竞选将会失败，正如特朗普最初支持的州长候选人那样。
这位总统的背书“能帮你进入决选”，她告诉路透社，“但……已经不足以赢得一场竞选了。”
最终的共和党候选人在11月的选举中被看好获胜。
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South Carolina Republicans vote if Lindsey Graham’s sister should inherit Senate bid
2026-08-11T10:12:46.329Z / Reuters
WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – South Carolina voters head to the polls on Tuesday to decide if Darline Graham should replace her late brother, Senator Lindsey Graham, as the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in November’s election after he died last month.
After the senator’s unexpected death from a heart ailment, Governor Henry McMaster appointed Darline Graham to serve the rest of his term through early January. President Donald Trump endorsed Darline Graham, who has never held public office, for a full six-year term, calling it a “fabulous tribute” to her brother.
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But critics said her bid, based on family name recognition and presidential backing without a political record of her own, had the air of an attempted coronation.
Ten candidates are running in Tuesday’s election. The winner will face Democrat Annie Andrews, a pediatrician who had more than $3 million in her campaign war chest at the start of July.
If no primary candidate wins a majority on Tuesday, the top two finishers head to an August 25 runoff.
Graham’s opponents include U.S. Representatives Ralph Norman and Russell Fry, former Governor Mark Sanford and self-funded Greenville businessman Mark Lynch.
Lindsey Graham won his June 9 primary seeking his fifth Senate term by almost 28 percentage points. Lynch, who placed second with nearly 29% of the vote, is the only candidate in the special primary from the original primary field.
Lynch received more than 130,000 votes in that primary, suggesting some Republican primary voters had an appetite for change before Lindsey Graham’s death.
“People are furious” about “the coronation of Darline Graham,” Lynch said in an interview. “It’s OK that they picked her to be the interim senator until January but not to run for office.”
Graham is expected to make the runoff, but skeptics have questioned her credentials and the president’s decision to endorse her over more qualified candidates who have been vetted in previous campaigns. Her rivals expect voters who do not choose her on Tuesday to back her opponent in a runoff.
Trump won South Carolina in 2024 by nearly 18 percentage points.
In interviews, Republicans questioned the potency of Trump’s endorsement in South Carolina, where he backed a pair of runoff candidates for governor after polls showed his first pick, Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette, was poised to lose against Attorney General Alan Wilson.
U.S. Representative Nancy Mace, who ran unsuccessfully for governor, predicted Graham would lose her Senate bid just as Trump’s original choice for governor lost.
The president’s endorsement “gets you into a runoff,” she told Reuters. “But … it’s not enough to win a race anymore.”
The eventual Republican nominee is favored to win in November.
Reporting by Nolan D. McCaskill; Editing by Cynthia Osterman
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