#1 is the best, #50 is the worst
Annie Andrews beat Trump's pick, Darline Graham, 51.1% to 46.6%, the first Democrat South Carolina has sent to the Senate in 28 years. Democrats also flipped the 1st District and 10 state House seats. Joe Wilson held on by 2,840 votes. And the 1st District flipped by just 1 point on a map Republicans redrew in 2022, which both the U.S. and South Carolina supreme courts let stand.
On November 11, the House voted 245-175 to force a standalone vote on the Major Richard Star Act, which would stop cutting the retirement pay of about 58,000 combat-wounded veterans. Every no vote came from a Republican. Here are the 153 on this site, and the 85 of them whose names are on the bill.
On November 10, the House voted 211-204 to bury the articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in committee. Here is what he has done, and the 182 Republicans on this site who voted to protect him.
Trump won South Carolina with 58.2% of the vote to 40.4%, a margin of 17.9 points, with 62.3% of eligible voters turning out. (Full 2024 presidential results, state by state.)
8 of 9 — 89%. In the U.S. House, South Carolina has 6 Republicans and 1 Democrat; in the Senate, 2 Republicans and 0 Democrats. (Source: Current members of Congress from South Carolina, on Wikipedia.)
South Carolina ranks #43 of 50. That is the average of its rank on the 17 measures in the report card above — violent crime, gun deaths, life expectancy, food insecurity, maternal and infant mortality, household income, public education, voter turnout and more. #1 is the best state to live in, #50 the worst.
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We grade Republican incumbents running in 2026 — U.S. Senators, U.S. Representatives and governors — on their record: how they voted, who funds them, and what it has cost South Carolina. Democrats and independents do not get report cards.