Graham, Andrews neck and neck in South Carolina Senate race: Poll

Sen. Darline Graham (R-S.C.) and her Democratic opponent, Annie Andrews, are locked in a dead heat in the race for South Carolina’s Senate seat, according to a new poll released Saturday evening.

The survey , conducted by right-leaning polling firm Trafalgar Group, found Graham leading Andrews by just one point — with a just under three-point error margin — among likely South Carolina voters.

Around 8 percent of those surveyed said they were still undecided on their vote this November, while around 6 percent selected another candidate.

An InsiderAdvantage poll released earlier this month had Graham leading in the race by two points, while a mid-August Impact Research survey sponsored by Andrews’s campaign found the candidates tied.

Graham is running for a six-year term in the upper chamber after she was tapped by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) to fill the Senate seat vacated following the death of her brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

President Trump swiftly endorsed the late senator’s sister in South Carolina’s GOP primary election, in which Graham defeated Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) in a tense runoff race. Days before their face off, Trump traveled to South Carolina to rally voters in Graham’s favor.

Andrews has criticized Graham for her legislative record in the Senate, slamming the senator’s decision to vote against an Iran war powers resolution this week as energy costs tied to the conflict rise.

The Democratic pediatrician has struck a path as a more moderate candidate as she seeks to turn South Carolina’s Senate seat blue for the first time in over 20 years.

Andrews dismissed “Medicare for All” as a “policy from a few decades ago” in an August interview with The Hill’s sister network, NewsNation.

“I believe with every cell in my body that healthcare is a human right,” she told “On Balance” host Leland Vittert. “But I’m also a realist, and I understand where we are politically in this country right now. We have to take pragmatic solutions to fix our healthcare system, shift it from a profit-motivated system to a patient-centered system.”

The Trafalgar poll was conducted among 1,087 likely voters from Sept. 23-25 with a margin of error of approximately 2.9 percentage points.