MAGA Senator Confronted Over Awkward Pro-Choice Donation

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Darline Graham Finally Questioned on Pro-Choice Cash Senator Darline Graham faces the voters—again—on Tuesday in the South Carolina run-off election she needs to win to then face the voters, for a third time, to secure six years in her brother Lindsey Graham ’s old seat.

She has the endorsement, of course, of Donald Trump , and presumably the goodwill of those Republicans who loved her brother—although on Tuesday night she had a shocker of a debate performance, being booed when she confessed her ignorance of national security, her brother’s signature issue.

But worse for Graham, she has been dogged by a particularly awkward revelation first made by The Swamp: That the only person she has ever been recorded making a political donation to was a state senator who tanked a draconian abortion ban.

We revealed, on July 21 , that Graham had given $100 to the campaign for then-State Senator Katrina Shealy .

Shealy was a disability rights advocate who went on to become known as one of the “Sister Senators,” three Republicans, a Democrat, and an independent, who blocked a total abortion ban in South Carolina in 2023.

Then it turned out that after that blocking move, Graham gave another $100 to Shealy.

That was hardly what the MAGA base wanted to learn about Darline, whose brother had carefully tended to the base with his own attempts at draconian anti-abortion legislation.

And since then, Graham has proven to be the opposite of her garrulous brother when it comes to speaking to the press.

Finally this week, she was pressed on her cash for Shealy.