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Darline Graham: The Seat She Inherited
6 episodes · 116 minutes · every episode, in order, on this page.
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Episode 1 · 21 min
Not My Thing
A sitting U.S. senator said on a debate stage that national security is not her thing. The receipts show her own committee seats, and a sanctions law named for her late brother that passed the Senate eleven days before she said it, so the episode asks every state what a senator is supposed to know.
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Episode 2 · 20 min
One of Fifty
Twice this summer the Senate failed by forty-nine to fifty to pull U.S. forces out of hostilities with Iran, and both times one of the fifty was the senator who said national security is not her thing; this episode takes Darline Graham (R-SC) through her 62 roll calls one at a time, checking each vote against what she said she knows.
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Episode 3 · 20 min
Stand 154
Darline Graham (R) runs on the agency she led, so we pull that agency's federal file: ten Army dining halls, a vendor-selection process the panel's majority said needed rescuing from "the stench of favoritism," one dollar in damages, and what a voter in any state can learn by reading the file.
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Episode 4 · 20 min
Four Out of Five Dollars
Darline Graham's (R) campaign calls Annie Andrews' (D) money "out-of-state dollars," so we read her own filing: by our count, four of every five itemized dollars in her first report came from outside South Carolina, and the money she inherited with the seat was larger than the money she raised.
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Episode 5 · 21 min
How the War Started
The morning after the only South Carolina Senate debate, every Iran, data-center and sanctions claim made by Senator Darline Graham, a Republican, is checked against the roll calls. The receipts include the August night she said national security is not her thing, three recorded Nay votes on ending the war, and a war powers vote she could have decided alone.
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Episode 6 · 14 min
The Sister Seat
A Senate seat changes hands by appointment, a loyalty test, and a five million dollar rescue—three weeks out, the receipts show what it costs to inherit a job.