Andrews says she won’t be focused on ‘retribution tour’

South Carolina’s newly elected senator, Annie Andrews (D), said her focus will be on “delivering results” and not a “retribution tour” following her victory in the midterm elections.

In the historically red state of South Carolina, Andrews won a competitive Senate race against Republican Sen. Darline Graham (S.C.), who was picked to succeed her late brother Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

Andrews won by more than 4 percentage points and more tahn 90,000 votes, according to nonpartisan election forecaster Decision Desk HQ , a partner of The Hill. The forecaster narrowly favored Darline Graham ahead of the elections.

“Fighting the administration is not going to lower gas prices and grocery prices. It’s not going to solve the problems that I heard about for the past eighteen months,” Andrews told Fox News during an interview . “So I’m going to be laser-focused on delivering results and not, you know, a retribution tour, because that’s what the people of South Carolina are expecting from me.”

Andrews also said she is willing to work with President Trump “to secure the border, to stop these Medicaid cuts” and to “find a way out of this war.”

“I’m going to walk up to the halls of Congress and do my best to solve as many problems as I can for the people of South Carolina,” she added.

Andrews, a pediatrician, launched her bid to run for a seat in the U.S. Senate last year. She previously ran for office in 2022 against Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), losing by around 14 points. Four years later, she won her Senate bid, becoming the first Democrat to hold a Senate seat from the state in decades.

Andrews’s win is consistent with the Democrats’ nationwide victory in the midterm elections this November, where the party took control of both the Senate and the House. Democrats secured big wins in battleground states, flipping GOP-held seats in places like Texas, Maine, Iowa, Ohio and Michigan.