随着民调显示这场参议院竞选在深红州势均力敌，参议院民主党人首次在南卡罗来纳州购买广告。
Senate Democrats are buying ads in South Carolina for the first time as polls show a close Senate contest in the deep-red state.
参议院民主党人在中期选举中的主要超级政治行动委员会——参议院多数派政治行动委员会（SMP）将在棕榈州投入75万美元用于数字广告，聚焦参议员达琳·格雷厄姆（共和党）与安妮·安德鲁斯（民主党）之间的竞争。
Senate Majority PAC (SMP), the Senate Democrats’ main political action committee in the midterms, will spend $750,000 on digital ads in the Palmetto State on the race between Sen. Darline Graham (R) and Annie Andrews (D).
“我们将在安德鲁斯和达琳·格雷厄姆之间划清界限，重点攻击格雷厄姆推高医疗成本和处方药价格，”参议院多数派政治行动委员会发言人劳伦·弗伦奇在社交平台上的一篇帖子中写道。最近的民调显示，格雷厄姆和安德鲁斯陷入胶着，一项《纽约时报》/锡耶纳大学的民调显示，两位候选人在可能投票者中的支持率均为48%。自1998年以来，南卡罗来纳州未曾选出过民主党参议员。
“We’ll draw a sharp contrast between Andrews and Darline Graham, focusing on Graham raising health care costs and Rx drug prices,” SMP spokesperson Lauren French wrote in a post to the social platform Recent polls of the race have shown Graham and Andrews in a close contest, with a New York Times/Siena University poll giving each candidate 48 percent support among likely voters. South Carolina has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1998.
参议院多数派政治行动委员会的这一举措是在共和党向南卡罗来纳州投入更多资金支持格雷厄姆之后作出的回应，共和党的支出已超过2000万美元。
SMP’s response comes after Republicans moved more money into South Carolina to support Graham, with GOP spending reaching more than $20 million.
联邦选举委员会的文件显示，尽管直到现在尚未获得外部支持，安德鲁斯自己筹集了超过2000万美元，而格雷厄姆仅筹集了120万美元。
Despite not having outside support up to this point, Andrews has raised more than $20 million herself compared to Graham’s $1.2 million, Federal Election Commission filings show.
格雷厄姆面临的挑战之一是难以团结共和党人。格雷厄姆在初选中的对手、联邦众议员拉尔夫·诺曼（共和党-南卡罗来纳州）表示，他会信守承诺为她投票，但明确拒绝与格雷厄姆一起竞选。他甚至表示，他的家人不会支持她。
One of Graham’s challenges has been her struggle to unite Republicans. Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), Graham’s opponent in the primary election, said he would keep his word and vote for her, but outright refused to campaign with Graham. He even said that his family would not be supporting her.
特朗普总统多次前往该州为其亲自挑选的候选人助选，后者是在其兄长、参议员林赛·格雷厄姆（共和党）去世后，由州长亨利·麦克马斯特（共和党-南卡罗来纳州）任命的。
President Trump has made multiple trips to the state to boost his hand-picked candidate, who was appointed by Gov. Henry McMaster (R-S.C.) following the death of her brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R).
尽管如此，民主党在南卡罗来纳州曾吃过亏，即2020年民调显示竞争激烈，但林赛·格雷厄姆最终以10个百分点的优势击败了民主党人杰米·哈里森。
Still, Democrats have been burned before in South Carolina, namely in 2020, when polls showed a close race, but Lindsey Graham went on to defeat Democrat Jaime Harrison by 10 points.
无党派选举预测机构Decision Desk HQ（DDHQ），《国会山报》的合作伙伴，给格雷厄姆赢得完整任期的几率评为65%。
Nonpartisan election forecaster Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), a partner of The Hill, gives Graham a 65 percent chance to win a full term.