Det Bowers joins race to unseat Lindsey Graham

I hear this guy can really draw a lot of votes from the midstate.

Reported by CNN:

The already-crowded race to unseat South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is about to get another candidate.

Det Bowers, a well-connected Columbia pastor known for his oratory, put weeks of rumors to rest on Monday and said he is joining the five-person Republican Senate primary field.

The task of beating Graham, while complex, is not as impossible as Graham’s allies have made it seem, derisively referring to his primary opponents in private as “the clown car.”

Despite having a long list of powerful friends and mounds of campaign cash – he reported more than $7 million last month – Graham’s vulnerability in this June’s Republican primary is an open secret in South Carolina.

Public polling has been spotty, but insiders are currently pegging Graham’s vote ceiling a primary somewhere in the low to mid-40s.

The addition of Bowers to an already-splintered field makes the prospect of forcing Graham in a one-on-one runoff even more likely. If no candidate clears 50% in the primary this summer, the top two finishers will face each other in a two-week runoff election.

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