{"id":30311,"date":"2026-08-19T10:58:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=30311"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:05:58","slug":"sc-sen-epic-debate-faceplant-by-lindsey-grahams-unqualified-inept-sister-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/08\/19\/sc-sen-epic-debate-faceplant-by-lindsey-grahams-unqualified-inept-sister-goes-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"SC-Sen: Epic debate faceplant by Lindsey Graham&#8217;s unqualified, inept sister goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s why she&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/18\/us\/politics\/south-carolina-senate-runoff-debate-graham-norman.html\">not ready for prime time<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the only debate in a runoff election that will most likely determine the next senator from South Carolina, Senator Darline Graham stumbled over a question about the importance of Taiwan to U.S. interests, saying she was \u201cnot that informed on national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The awkward moment, which prompted boos from the audience, underscored her biggest vulnerability in the race to succeed her brother, the late Lindsey Graham. Ms. Graham has the full support of President Trump, but she lacks the experience of her opponent, Representative Ralph Norman, who easily explained why Taiwan is an economic ally for the United States and worth protecting against China.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Read the full NYT report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/18\/us\/politics\/south-carolina-senate-runoff-debate-graham-norman.html\">here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/darline-graham-nordone-2677726673\/\">Raw Story chronicles the tsunami of reactions to the gaffe<\/a>, ranging from &#8220;This is painful to watch&#8221; to &#8220;This might be just dumb!&#8221; One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/darline-graham\/?u=b1e962dbfd470dc55fa21ef314c71139451ac9d9819e435e8d6b7f3211582964&#038;utm_source=Iterable&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Aug.19.2026_11.59am_19473916\">influential conservative columnist<\/a> went so far as to write, &#8220;Please. This charade cannot continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, this should go well for the GOP\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s why she&#8217;s not ready for prime time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}