Annie Andrews

But Trump, you know, his endorsement still carried enough weight in the primary where she won over a member of Congress named Ralph Norman, who was also in that race.

But then, you know, she was such a terrible candidate in the general election that, you know, even in South Carolina, which I think Trump won by like 20 points two years ago, she ended up losing to Annie Andrews, who, you know, there aren't really any name brand Democrats in South Carolina, but just kind of like a normal Democrat pediatrician, you know, so kind of ran against RFK, but, you know, kind of stood for normal Democratic Party things.

I think that example kind of illustrates how you can win a primary by being someone who Trump gave the blessing to, and that's kind of enough.

But then even in a very red state, unless you have some merits of your own, you can't win in a general election.

No one was looking at South Carolina and I wasn't peeping this at all.

Apparently this woman who won Annie Andrews is a pediatrician.

That just warmed my heart.

Like a pediatrician beat out Lindsey Graham's sister.

Good morning.

Annie Andrews, the senator-elect in South Carolina...

That was a race I saw emerging with the polls, with the disparity in communication skills and intelligence that was clearly in her favor.

Her campaign did an internal poll one month prior to the general election that had her ahead by three points.

Exactly.

Annie Andrews is going to be a sender.

Exactly.

Oh, but look,

And we certainly won't win it when they reapportion seats and more of them flow to the south after the 2030 census.

So I think I've said on the show that I think South Carolina will be a swing state because so much organizing and infrastructure building is going to happen there during the primary.

And now that we have our God, Annie Andrews, as the United States Senator there, I think hopefully this will be a wake up call to Democrats that we can and must compete in these states.

Yeah, if I can

Good God.

in terms of so darling graham she was like the favorite back you know like i'm sure she got some of musk's money uh you know she got trump back in her everyone loved her she had no political experience she'd never held office before which which to be fair is like doesn't mean you can't do it um but i don't think she was doing a great job because um in comes in uh Dr. Annie Andrews, which I didn't even know her name because the story was all about Darlene Graham.

You just never heard about the other person.

But the funny thing I saw this morning, which I think is really interesting about the story, is that since they started campaigning, so since the primaries, Annie Andrews was actually leading the polls the whole time.

Crazy, right? And nobody ever reported on it.

No one ever reported on it.

That's what I hear.

Exactly.

went the wrong direction and there was a political environment that we kind of anticipated to be in a D plus nine, D plus ten level and it actually penetrated a little bit farther into sort of the third tier of races that the Democrats were chasing.

And a couple great examples of that would be the South Carolina Senate race where Darlene Graham lost to Annie Andrews and then also in the Mississippi U.S. Senate race where right now the AP hasn't called it yet, but the incumbent, Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican, is down 1,100 votes.

And most of the votes have already been counted.

So, you

Not perfectly.

But certainly set ourselves up to be in a position where we won on Tuesday with some really great candidates like Abdul El-Sayed and James Tallarico and Annie Andrews and Scott Kalam in Mississippi.

What an incredible victory that is.

I mean, it's extraordinary.

Overall, South Carolina came out pretty good.

I know that we've talked a lot about the U.S. Senate race losing to a Democrat, Darlene Graham losing to Dr. Annie Andrews, and that's a big one.

But we still won all the constitutional offices.

We still maintain the majority in the state capitol.

By the way, he's not the only one.

Annie Andrews, who's also very progressive, she is going to be the new senator in South Carolina.

She's the one who defeated Darlene Graham just a few hours ago.

She also said that it's time for change.