I suspect the same thing that happened all over. GOP-e poltical treason and a Democrat candidate that recklessly lied. Probably ran as a "new kind of Democrat, not one of those nasty DC Democrats". He is young and energetic so Female voters, again, voted with their genitalia instead of their brains just like 2006 and 2008.
Now, as in 2006, the interesting thing is how due they KEEP the seat once they go to DC and vote as Nancy Peolosies rubber stamp?
Sanford worked behind the scenes to defeat her with the help of the GOP. The GOPe will tolerate no candidate that primaries a sitting congressperson.
When the postmortem on this election is written slot of sabotage is going to be unearthed.
I’m from a different part of the state, but Arrington was considered a liberal RINO who pretended to be pro-Trump. She was a bad candidate, but Sanford’s neverTrump nonsense over the top, so she won the primary.
Haha. Congratulations, Lindsey Graham! You flipped a seat to blue!
I live in the Hilton Head area. Sad that Katie didn’t win.
She got an A rating from the NRA. The SC 1 district hugs the coast. Cunningham poured a ton of money into campaign ads. Scare tactics about off shore drilling was the issue that won for him.
Not sure demographics played a role. There has been a large surge of refugees fleeing blue states moving here. I’m one. Many refuges from blue states have commented to me that they are surprised how Republicans fire back to their liberal political comments. I tell them to sit out local elections and let the natives, who have done a very good job keeping SC a low tax, small government state, run the show. We don’t need you to bring your blue state crap here.
Charleston County (1 of 5 counties) put him over the top. We need an electoral college here.
Obviously the fact that she spent a good amount of time in the hospital this summer put her at a huge disadvantage in campaigning and fundraising. I live in Charleston now. Her opponent, Joe Cunningham, ran way more TV ads the last month.
If you knew nothing about Cunningham except what you saw in his TV ads, you'd think he was a conservative. His ads said how his dad read him the Bible when he was a kid, how he is for strong border security, how he would not vote with Nancy Pelosi. No one who thinks border security is a priority would support a Democrat in this election.