Miles Parks
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The NPR Politics Podcast · Graham survives runoff with help from Trump's super PAC · 26 Aug 2026
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Today on the show, money.
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President Trump's preferred candidate won a Republican Senate runoff in South Carolina, but not before Trump's super PAC stepped in to get her over the finish line.
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And the fund that pays for Social Security is just a couple years from running out.
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Why is no one talking about this?
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It's the NPR politics podcast.
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I'm Miles Parks, I cover voting.
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And I do want to start with this South Carolina runoff that happened yesterday.
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Darlene Graham, the sister of late Senator Lindsay Graham, won the Republican primary to be on November's ballot in that state for this Senate seat.
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She was appointed to the seat when her brother died, but the initial election was pretty close and then this runoff ended up being pretty close too, right?
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Right.
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Norman, very conservative though, Mara, he did endorse one of President Trump's opponents in a previous election, right?
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That's true, but I I would actually counter that Ashley and say to me this is a more interesting test case of Trump's endorsement because Graham to me seemed like somewhat of a flawed candidate.
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I mean, I do I want to listen to a little bit of the tape from that debate, which was hosted by the South Carolina Republican Party, moderated by Newsmax.
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And Graham is asked about whether basically Taiwan and the South China Sea should be priorities for the United States.
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And here's what she said.
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To me that is just so interesting then that she still was able to win this election because I do think for some candidates, especially for political unknowns, where people are trying to define themselves with this couple weeks leading up to the election.
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This could have been something that sunk her campaign and it did not.
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The last thing I want to ask about Mara is the money question because this super PAC that's aligned with President Trump, MAGA Inc., came into this race late, spent a bunch of money, seemed I mean, just based on the result, uh, to get the result that they wanted.
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