{"id":10179,"date":"2025-06-11T13:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-rep-joe-walsh-is-considering-a-bid-against-gop-sen-lindsey-graham\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T13:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:32:19","slug":"former-rep-joe-walsh-is-considering-a-bid-against-gop-sen-lindsey-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/former-rep-joe-walsh-is-considering-a-bid-against-gop-sen-lindsey-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Rep. Joe Walsh is considering a bid against GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Joe Walsh, the former Tea Party congressman, right-wing radio host and current Never Trumper, is eyeing a possible move to South Carolina. He says he\u2019s considering a run as a Democratic Senate candidate against Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh, who became a <a href=\"https:\/\/socialcontractwithjoewalsh.substack.com\/p\/from-the-tea-party-to-the-democratic?r=5bc320&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true\" target=\"_blank\"><u>registered<\/u><\/a> Democrat last week, told Blue Light News that Democrats have to take a new, asymmetrical approach to their Republican opponents and have to \u201cfucking wake up and begin to do different things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am seriously considering moving to South Carolina and challenging Lindsey Graham next year, because he&#8217;s a piece of shit,&#8221; said Walsh, who describes himself as a \u201cconservative\u201d Democrat. &#8220;He\u2019s everything that is wrong about our politics, and he&#8217;s the worst, most pathetic Trump enabler.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Walsh would not be the only Democrat in the race if he runs: Dr. Annie Andrews, a progressive, has already <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AnnieAndrewsMD\/status\/1928056582270529549\" target=\"_blank\"><u>announced a campaign<\/u><\/a> for the seat that has been held by Republicans over half a century.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh represented the northwest suburbs of Chicago from 2011 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Graham\u2019s last race, when he faced Jaime Harrison, was among the most expensive of its cycle, totaling nearly $200 million. Harrison lost to Graham by 10 percentage points.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Walsh, the former Tea Party congressman, right-wing radio host and current Never Trumper, is eyeing a possible move to South Carolina. He says he\u2019s considering a run as a Democratic Senate candidate against Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. Walsh, who became a registered Democrat last week, told Blue Light News that Democrats have to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}