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Candidates › South Carolina U.S. Senate race › 2025–2026
RepublicanU.S. SenateSouth Carolina
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FEC filings, Jan 1, 2026 to Sep 30, 2026 · Official FEC bulk data · committee C00946293
83¢ of every dollar raised has been spent across 4 reports ($10.9K of $13.2K). Cash on hand went from $2.6K on Mar 31, 2026 to $2.3K on Sep 30, 2026.
| Report | Raised in the period | Spent in the period | Cash on hand at its close |
|---|---|---|---|
| APRIL QUARTERLY 2026 through Mar 31, 2026 | $13,190 | $10,613 | $2,577 |
| PRE-PRIMARY 2026 through May 20, 2026 | $0 | $243 | $2,334 |
| JULY QUARTERLY 2026 through Jun 30, 2026 | $0 | $28 | $2,306 |
| OCTOBER QUARTERLY 2026 through Sep 30, 2026 | $0 | $0 | $2,306 |
Each report’s own period, as filed with the FEC; a report filed again counts once, as its latest copy.
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Each loan as the campaign’s report through Sep 30, 2026 lists it, with what is still owed. A loan from an earlier cycle can appear here, and one repaid in full drops off the report, so the list need not add up to the row.
Total reported receipts $13,190
Every dollar the committee reported receiving this cycle, split by the source the FEC filing attributes it to. FEC filings through Sep 30, 2026.
Money groups spent on their own, not through a campaign. Each ad is filed against the candidate it names, so money attacking an opponent shows on the opponent’s row. Open a candidate to see who spent it.
Each group that spent in this race is followed to where its own money came from, and what it spent is split by those shares: a group whose money was 60% one person's counts as 60% of its spending theirs. Of what traced, 32% to named individuals, 43% to organizations, 17% to tax-exempt organizations that need not name their donors, 0.7% to committees nothing more could be followed from, 6.7% not itemized in the filings.
| Name | Amount |
|---|---|
| Person · CEO, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. · behind SLF PAC and NO Going Back PAC Inc. and 1 more | $4.2M |
| Organization · behind Palmetto Action | $3.8M |
| Organization · behind Security IS Strength PAC and Project 2026 | $3.4M |
| Organization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind SLF PAC | $3.3M |
| Organization · behind Security IS Strength PAC and Project 2026 | $3.2M |
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Total itemized disbursements $10,440
Every itemized payment the committee reported this cycle, sorted by what it said each one was for. The categories are ours; the wording they are matched against is the committee’s own. Open a category to read the filed descriptions and who was paid. FEC filings through Sep 30, 2026.
All 1 itemized payments filed this cycle. Spending below the itemization threshold is not filed line by line.
| Name | Amount |
|---|---|
| 1 payment · 96% of all spending | $10,440 |
The people, firms and committees paid the most, across every kind of payment. Each share is of everything the committee reported spending this cycle, not only the itemized payments above. A payee that is itself a committee links to its own profile.
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Lost · 14,159 votes (3%) · 5 of 6 · Full results ↗
Every contest for this seat that named this candidate, most recent last; a result is shown once the race is called. Election dates and results from civicAPI (civicapi.org). civicAPI aggregates results from Secretaries of State and equivalent election bodies, and makes its own race calls. civicapi.org ↗
Primary June 9, 2026 · 3 polls
Each dot is a poll. The line is the median of the 5 latest nonpartisan polls. How polls are read
Lindsey Graham won by 27.9 points. The 2 final polls had a median of Lindsey Graham +20.2, understating Lindsey Graham's margin by 7.7 points.
| Poll | Lindsey Graham | Mark Lynch | Lead | vs. result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| InsiderAdvantageended Jun 6 | 51.2% | 20.9% | Lindsey Graham +30.3 | +2.4 |
| The Citadel Pollended May 31 | 46% | 36% | Lindsey Graham +10 | −17.9 |
| Median of the final polls | Lindsey Graham +20.2 | −7.7 | ||
| Result | 56.8% | 28.9% | Lindsey Graham +27.9 |
June 9, 2026 · Result (unofficial) · Each pollster's last poll ending in the 21 days before the vote, read for the two leading finishers; the median leaves out polls a side paid for
Poll data from The New York Times, licensed CC BY 4.0 · Updated November 10, 2026 · 21 polls paid for by a party or campaign are left out
Official FEC filing record for the current cycle. The priorities they publish are quoted from their own site, in their order.
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| $2.5M |
| Organization · behind Government That Works PAC and Blackpac | $2.3M |
| Organization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind Blackpac and Winsenate | $2.1M |
| Organization · tax-exempt: need not name its donors · behind Government That Works PAC and Blackpac and 1 more | $2.1M |
| Organization · behind Government That Works PAC and The Edge Action Fund and 1 more | $1.7M |
| Person · Physician, Adelson Drug Clinic · behind Security IS Strength PAC and SLF PAC and 3 more | $1.7M |
| Organization · behind Fresh Start SC PAC | $1.6M |
Read for the 19 largest groups of 53, 92% of the $69.7M spent. Shares are of what each group received, not a record of which dollar went where; an organization that need not name its donors ends the trail; a person who gave by more than one route is counted once here. It shows who stood behind the money, not what it was for.