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The Keys to Jaime Harrison's Record-Setting Senate Campaign Against Lindsey Graham Democratic Senate candidate Jaime Harrison speaks to the media after a drive-in rally in North Charleston, S.C. on Oct. 17, 2020. Cameron Pollack—Getty Images F ew people expected South Carolina to be a  competitive Senate battleground  a week before Election Day. A Democrat hasn’t won statewide office in South Carolina in more  than a decade , President Donald Trump is  easily outpacing  Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, and the three-term incumbent, Republican Lindsey Graham,  won his last re-election  contest by more than 15 points. Even fewer people expected the Democratic candidate, Jaime Harrison, to become a sensation who  shattered the record  for the highest quarterly fundraising total for a Senate candidate in U.S. history—$57 million between July and September. But those who know Harrison—a 44-year-old Black man born to a teenage mother and raised by his grandparents in a mobile