Young Dem Wins South Carolina House Seat In Lindsey Graham’s Backyard
A 24-year-old Democrat scored a sweeping victory in Senator Lindsey Graham’s home turf, winning a seat in the South Carolina House of Representatives.
Keishan Scott claimed the seat for rural District 50 with a commanding lead of nearly 41 points over Republican challenger William Oden, according to unofficial results released Tuesday night by the South Carolina Election Commission.
It is a district that then-Vice President Kamala Harris won in the 2024 presidential election, as noted by The Daily Beast.
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“This victory is definitely not mine alone,” Scott said in a victory speech posted to his Facebook page. “It belongs to all of the people of District 50… I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for your vote of confidence.”
The win makes Scott the youngest member of the South Carolina House, which remains dominated by Republicans. His victory was hailed by the Democratic National Committee’s chairman, Ken Martin.
“As long as Trump and MAGA Republicans peddle an out-of-touch agenda that puts billionaires’ interests first and takes away health care from millions of Americans, they will continue to sink and lose,” DNC chairperson Ken Martin said in a statement.
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Scott’s victory comes as Graham has taken some heat for a visit this week to Ukraine where some of his comments were seen as counterproductive to President Donald Trump’s policies involving the war-torn country.
In a video shared on X, the senator stated that Congress is prepared to take action against Russia, regardless of whether President Trump supports it.
Graham heaped praise on Ukraine for the drone attack, saying in an X post, “The ever-resourceful Ukraine used creative drone warfare tactics to successfully attack Russian bombers and military assets used to kill Ukrainian citizens and destroy their country.”
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Graham suggested that if Russia agreed to a ceasefire and participated in negotiations, it would prevent the U.S. from “playing its cards.”
That led former Trump strategist and current War Room podcast host Steve Bannon to sharply criticize the senator’s actions during his visit to Kyiv.
In an interview on NewsNation’s Cuomo, Bannon accused Graham of giving Ukrainians “false hope” by meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky and implying that the U.S. supports Kyiv’s dramatic drone strike on Russia’s strategic bomber fleet, The Hill reported.
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“We can’t have Lindsey Graham, and particularly Zelensky, leading us into a third world war with a deep strike into Russia,” Bannon told host Chris Cuomo.
The remarks follow Bannon’s earlier call for the South Carolina senator to be jailed over his pro-Ukraine stance—a statement that drew sharp pushback. During the interview, Cuomo repeatedly pressed Bannon to justify his demand.
“I don’t understand how you could want to jail a U.S. senator because he’s saying something you don’t like,” the NewsNation host said, adding, “That sounds like the worst of the deep state and lawfare.”
“No, it’s absolutely — what he’s doing over there right now is stirring it up. He’s giving the Ukrainians false hope,” Bannon argued. Cuomo countered: “But it’s not illegal.”
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“So maybe he’s wrong, but why do you say throw him in jail?” Cuomo asked.
“Two things ought to happen: Either cancel his passport and don’t let him back in the country, or put him in jail if he comes back,” Bannon responded, adding, “The attack was audacious.”
“It was brilliant. But the problem is it gets us involved in a conflict that no one in the United States wants to be part of,” he added.
Cuomo then said that while he did not necessarily disagree with Bannon’s assessment, he did not see eye to eye with him regarding detaining Graham.
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“I’m just saying you can’t be throwing people in jail because you don’t like what they say. That’s my only point,” he told Bannon. “I’m not saying that you’re wrong about where this might lead and how dangerous it is.”
