Posted on 02/04/2014 2:43:10 PM PST by cotton1706
The already-crowded race to unseat South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is about to get another candidate.
Det Bowers, a well-connected Columbia pastor known for his oratory, put weeks of rumors to rest on Monday and said he is joining the five-person Republican Senate primary field.
“No question,” Bowers told CNN in a phone interview. “I am definitely running.”
Bowers said he filed fundraising paperwork with the Federal Election Commission in recent days and plans to make a formal announcement about his campaign soon. He also commiserated with donors in Washington and Texas last month, people close to him said.
“I understand the complexity of the task, but have every confidence this is exactly what I ought to be doing this season,” Bowers said.
The task of beating Graham, while complex, is not as impossible as Graham’s allies have made it seem, derisively referring to his primary opponents in private as “the clown car.”
Despite having a long list of powerful friends and mounds of campaign cash – he reported more than $7 million last month - Graham’s vulnerability in this June’s Republican primary is an open secret in South Carolina.
Public polling has been spotty, but insiders are currently pegging Graham’s vote ceiling a primary somewhere in the low to mid-40s. And while two of the state’s senior-most Republicans, Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott, have had kind words for Graham, they have declined to formally endorse his re-election bid.
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That could happen, but Democrats in SC are too lazy to do that in an off year. Democrats will be home smoking pot and watching porn.
State Senator Lee Bright. He has a record as a staunch Conservative.
It’s also hopefully how Greg Brannon will win in North Carolina, but we have to keep Speaker Tillis under 40%.
forgive my ignorance of primary rules in SC, mea culpa
forgive my ignorance of primary rules in SC, mea culpa
No apology necessary. Your values are correct!
Gov. Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott, have had kind words for Graham, they have declined to formally endorse his re-election bid.
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It’s a shame that Rand Paul could not have been that smart in KY rather than endorsing Mitch McConnell.
Graham supporters were quick to highlight Bowers’ past support for Democratic candidates. Bowers was the chairman of Michael Dukakis’ 1988 presidential bid in South Carolina.
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WTF???? Oh, well, that will be one more person to draw votes away from Graham and force a run-off.
Too many candidates dilute the electorate and Graham will win.
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NOT SO!!! As the Article stated, and as I’ve said on here many times, adding another candidate to draw votes away from Graham is just adding more insurance to the fact that Graham will NOT get 50% of the vote and he will be forced into a run-off. WOULDN’T IT BE GREAT IF HE WAS NOT EVEN ONE OF THE TOP TWO VOTE GETTERS?
Lee Bright.
Stop dividing the primary vote. It will ensure Graham’s re-election.
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Come on now, you’re not thinking. Please see Post #30. Thanks.
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