Here’s who is running to replace Lindsey Graham in the Senate

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South Carolina voters will participate in a special primary election in August to name a GOP nominee to fill the seat formerly held by Sen. Lindsey Graham in the upper chamber.

Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) was sworn in to fill the remainder of her late brother’s unexpired term last week after Gov. Henry McMaster (R-SC) appointed her to the seat. Initially expected to serve in a temporary, caretaker capacity until Graham’s elected permanent replacement filled the seat in January, Nordone’s prospects shifted when President Donald Trump endorsed and publicly encouraged her to run for the full term.

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