Darline Graham, appointed to finish her late brother Lindsey Graham's Senate term, faces Democrat Annie Andrews in a race that polls show is unusually tight in South Carolina. Surveys cited include a Trafalgar poll and an Insider Advantage poll showing Graham ahead by 1 point, and a Rasmussen poll with Graham at 49 percent and Andrews at 45 percent. Andrews ties rising fuel prices and inflation to the Iran war and points out that Darline Graham voted three times to continue it, while Graham says the war should not stop while Iran remains dangerous and that it is close to ending. The article argues the race's closeness would have been unthinkable without the political context of the war, and notes that some supporters of primary challenger Ralph Norman are reluctant to back her or are pushing for a write-in campaign.
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