WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Sen. Darline Graham, who is competing in next week\u2019s runoff election in South Carolina, stumbled over a question about foreign policy in a debate on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre Taiwan and the South China Sea national security issues for the United States and if so, why or how?\u201d asked one of the moderators.<\/p>\n
Graham started her answer by saying, \u201cI\u2019m just going to be honest here.”<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not that informed on national security,” she said, then paused. “But I do support the military.”<\/p>\n
Graham\u2019s brother, Lindsey, died unexpectedly on July 11. She was appointed to fill his seat temporarily, and now she\u2019s running in a special election for her own term. Her opponent is Rep. Ralph Norman.<\/p>\n
Her answer was noteworthy because her late brother was known for his involvement in foreign policy, something that Graham mentioned in her answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy brother was in the Air Force for 33 years so I will do everything I can to support the military,” she said. “My dad was in the Army. I\u2019m not a polished politician up here, national security is not my thing, not my area of expertise, but I do support the military.\u201d<\/p>\n
Graham was endorsed by President Donald Trump. She and Norman advanced to the runoff in last week’s primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Sen. Darline Graham, who is competing in next week\u2019s runoff election in South Carolina, stumbled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[143248,143431,145,23681,59373,69359,59371,59372,61260,61261,61262,131372,82,84,83,9915,131204,16683],"class_list":["post-410703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-darline-graham","tag-darline-graham-taiwan-debate-national-security","tag-donald-trump","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-product-30103-ap-south-carolina-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-31998-ap-online-national-news","tag-product-32510-ap-online-general-election-news","tag-product-32520-ap-online-other-u-s-government-news","tag-product-46986-ap-online-top-stories","tag-ralph-norman","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-south-carolina","tag-south-china-sea","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}