{"id":577192,"date":"2026-04-11T03:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577192\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T03:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:39:15","slug":"sc-gop-senate-candidate-drops-out-endorses-mark-lynch-in-bid-to-unseat-lindsey-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/577192\/","title":{"rendered":"SC GOP Senate candidate drops out, endorses Mark Lynch in bid to unseat Lindsey Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) \u2014 Paul Dans, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in South Carolina, announced he is ending his campaign and endorsing Mark Lynch in the GOP primary against incumbent Sen. Lindsey Graham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a post on X addressed to President Donald Trump, Dans said he dropped out because it was the deadline to remove his name from the ballot. He said the decision was not tied to an endorsement he recently received from media personality Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dans, who said he has supported Trump since 2015, criticized Graham and argued Republicans cannot \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d until Graham is defeated. Dans said Lynch \u201chas the resources\u201d to mount a successful challenge and pledged to do \u201ceverything in my power\u201d to help elect him to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Dans also pointed to what he described as South Carolina\u2019s needs, citing poor rankings for the state\u2019s roads and concerns about schools, and said voters should not trust Graham to help Trump \u201cput America first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">South Carolina\u2019s Republican primary is June 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCSC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) \u2014 Paul Dans, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in South Carolina, announced he is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,253543,253542,5852,132190,3,34482,21,19,22,20,25,24,20433],"class_list":{"0":"post-577192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-drop-out","10":"tag-endorse","11":"tag-lindsey-graham","12":"tag-mark-lynch","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-paul-dans","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-x"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}