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South Carolina: Jaime Harrison Comes Up Well Short by Charles S. Bullock; Susan A. MacManus; Jeremy D. Mayer; Mark J. Rozell is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is South Carolina: Jaime Harrison Comes Up Well Short about?

In one of the most widely watched, analyzed, and expensive US Senate campaigns in history, Democratic nominee Jaime Harrison came up surprisingly well short in his bid to become the second African American elected to the US Senate from South Carolina. Democrats nationally had pinned their hopes on flipping the US Senate seat in South Carolina, given three-term Republican incumbent senator Lindsey Graham’s profile as one of the staunchest defenders of President Donald Trump. This chapter places the 2020 US Senate race in the broader context of the history of South Carolina statewide elections and racial politics in the state. It becomes clear that, although many Democrats, even from outside of South Carolina, had pinned high hopes on Harrison’s bid, past electoral history and state demographics, as well as the impact of incumbency, all played strongly against him. Although South Carolina qualifies by our metric as one of the “Growth States” of the South, it is the slowest to advance to that category and remains difficult electoral territory for a Black Democratic statewide candidate.

Author

Charles S. Bullock; Susan A. MacManus; Jeremy D. Mayer; Mark J. Rozell

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN