{"id":130933,"date":"2025-06-11T14:15:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130933"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:15:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:15:46","slug":"former-rep-joe-walsh-is-considering-a-bid-against-gop-sen-lindsey-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130933","title":{"rendered":"Former Rep. Joe Walsh is considering a bid against GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics<\/p>\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\" rel=\"noopener\">registered<\/a> Democrat last week, told POLITICO 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\" rel=\"noopener\">announced a campaign<\/a> for the seat that has been held by Republicans for 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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/06\/11\/joe-walsh-lindsey-graham-senate-2026-00399156\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Politics 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&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130933"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}