DARLINE GRAHAM: I'm South Carolina's newest senator. This is who I am and what I believe

To everyone who has reached retired implicit the past fewer weeks with condolences, stories astir my member Lindsey, and prayers — convey you. You person helped maine and my household get done immoderate of the hardest weeks of our lives.

I ne'er expected to beryllium moving for office. I person ne'er had immoderate tendency to beryllium a politician. I americium doing this due to the fact that I americium answering President Trump's telephone to service and privation to basal up for South Carolina and combat for his agenda.

Like Lindsey, I americium a hard idiosyncratic with a servant's heart. We grew up successful the backmost of a barroom and liquor store, successful 1 room. Our parents worked hard each time to marque ends conscionable — determination was nary clip for sickness and fewer vacations, due to the fact that if the doors weren't open, nary wealth was coming in.

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My parent passed distant erstwhile I was 11, and my begetter conscionable implicit a twelvemonth later. Lindsey stepped successful to rise me. He was ever determination for me, and I volition miss him dearly.

For 30 years my passionateness has been serving South Carolina. So erstwhile President Trump asked maine to tally for the Senate, I answered the call, and I americium arrogant to person his endorsement.

For the past 7 years, I led a authorities bureau with 130 employees and a 90-million-dollar budget. We turned it from a struggling enactment into a nationalist exemplary helping radical find enactment and unrecorded independently. We made definite each spending was reasonable, allowable, and necessary. I fought against duplication of services knowing it wasted taxpayers' dollars.

But beyond the resume, radical privation to cognize who I americium and what I believe.

I'm a mother, a grandmother, and a wife. I cognize however to bargain store and I look for the buy-one-get-one-free income astatine the market store. I conscionable bought a caller brace of shoes to locomotion astir the U.S. Capitol disconnected the clearance rack astatine the Shoe Warehouse. I chopped my ain writer with a propulsion mower, and yes, I cognize however to usage a weedeater.

Lindsey was the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee and was an adept connected the national budget. I americium an adept connected the household budget.

I person 2 daughters with wellness problems, truthful I cognize what it feels similar to wage outrageous aesculapian bills.

I cognize determination isn't a azygous concern successful this state that would fto you enactment everything connected recognition the mode we bash contiguous with the national budget.

I judge that if you person to amusement an ID to cheque retired a room book, you should person to amusement 1 to vote. That's wherefore the archetypal measure I co-sponsored was the SAVE America Act. I americium prepared to cancel the Senate’s August recess and enactment successful Washington to get it passed and sent to President Trump’s desk.

I judge Joe Biden fto 12 cardinal amerciable immigrants locomotion into our country, and President Trump and I are going to locomotion them close backmost out. If you privation to travel to the United States, bash it legally. And if you privation to enactment here, you request to respect our American values, not inquire america to unrecorded by yours.

I enactment the Right to Life. I judge each quality beingness is ineffable and deserves protection.

I powerfully enactment the Second Amendment, and I judge weapon power is however dependable you clasp your weapon. I erstwhile had a concealed weapons licence and scored a 98 connected the shooting information of the test.

I'm a volleyball ma who loves thing much than watching my girl play, and I judge boys person nary spot successful girls' sports and nary concern successful girls' locker rooms.

I reason DEI.

I deliberation AOC is C-R-A-Z-Y.

I deliberation Anthony Fauci should halt staring astatine the level and reply the questions.

I consciousness similar I had 1 of the astir palmy archetypal days of immoderate blimpish legislator successful past — the prima hadn't adjacent acceptable earlier the ladies connected The View were criticizing me.

I americium the archetypal pistillate United States legislator successful South Carolina history. My Democratic opponent, Dr. Annie Andrews, indispensable not beryllium the second. Dr. Andrews supports turning confused small boys into small girls and vice versa. I judge that makes her the worst pediatrician successful the country.

I basal for the National Anthem.

I judge our veterans are heroes.

I volition ever Back the Blue.

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And I cognize that President Trump and I volition Make America Great Again.

I'm Darline Graham: a bargain shopper and a hard idiosyncratic who knows your struggles due to the fact that I unrecorded them too.

I'm not an adept connected Congress — I americium an adept connected the problems facing families successful South Carolina.

I'm asking for your prayers, and I privation to gain South Carolinians' vote. I committedness to enactment hard each azygous time for South Carolina.

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Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.