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Graham, Andrews tied in South Carolina Senate race, new poll shows

Annie Andrews has the support of fifty-seven percent of independents in the New York Times and Siena poll; Election Day is November third, and pollsters still disagree.

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorApparently everybody wants things to be fair tonight, and the Senate race in South Carolina is about as fair as it gets.

  2. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWhat does it look like where you are?

  3. Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentHank, I'm standing outside a polling place in South Carolina, where Annie Andrews and Darline Graham are tied at forty-eight percent each in the New York Times and Siena poll, and Election Day is November third.

  4. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat's a tie in a state Trump won by nearly eighteen points in twenty twenty-four.

  5. Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentIt is, and the polls don't agree with each other.

  6. Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentThe Citadel has Graham up four. The Policy Council has him up one. The New York Times has nobody up, which is the closest to a result.

  7. Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentI've asked one voter to settle it.

  8. Local voterWhich poll? I got called by two of them.

  9. Local voterI told both of them I'm undecided, and they both wrote it down like it was news.

  10. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFourteen percent of Citadel respondents said they don't know yet. Two percent may write in Ralph Norman.

  11. Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentSo the closest race in the state might be decided by a man who isn't on the ballot.

  12. Skip Waverly · Field CorrespondentHank, I have now been standing here an hour, and I think I'm leading him.

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