Jaime Harrison lost his 2020 Senate race in South Carolina by 10 percentage points.
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Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica TarlovOct 27, 2026
Official-style 2020 results show Graham 54.5% to Harrison 44.2%, a margin of about 10.3 points, and several outlets report the margin as 10 points. The AP reported 11 points, a minor discrepancy that does not change the verdict; the extraction correctly resolves the race to South Carolina's 2020 Senate contest.
What was said
… And she was giving to Dr. Annie Andrews for a long time, who's running in South Carolina against Darlene Graham, and I've been saying to her, I mean, I don't know, like, it's South Carolina, right? And Jamie Harrison lost by 10 points in 2020, so it wasn't losing by 20, 30 points for a very conservative state, but still. And now South Carolina seems fully in play, internal polling looking like Annie Andrews Lee tied, ahead in some cases. …
Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. Election results list Lindsey Graham at 54.5% and Jaime Harrison at 44.2%, a gap of roughly 10 percentage points.[2][3]
Supports. The State reports Graham beat Harrison by 10 percentage points, and Wikipedia says Harrison was defeated by ten points.[4][5]
Contradicts. The AP's election-night report says Graham won by 11 percentage points, a minor rounding or timing difference rather than a reversal of the claim.[1]
Context. The extraction's 'Jamie Harrison' is a spelling variant of Jaime Harrison, and the post's South Carolina context resolves the race as the 2020 Senate contest.
Sources
5 sources: 1 fact-checker, 1 tier 2, 3 not rated
- 1Despite massive Democratic fundraise, Graham easily wins SCapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: contradicts
- 2South Carolina Senate election results 2020nbcnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 3South Carolina U.S. Senate Election Results | Journal and Courierjconline.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 4Harrison says Trump's coattails helped Republicans in SCthestate.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5Jaime Harrison - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: supports
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