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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

Full hospitals, talk of rationing care: New wave of coronavirus cases strains resources A health-care worker performs a coronavirus test at a drive-through site in Mesquite, Tex., in August. (Cooper Neill/Bloomberg News) With  coronavirus  hospitalizations surging in much of the United States and daily cases hitting all-time highs, the pandemic is putting new strain on local health systems, prompting plans for makeshift medical centers and new talk of rationing care. Support our journalism. Subscribe today. In Texas, authorities are scrambling to shore up resources in El Paso, where intensive care units hit full capacity on Saturday and where covid-19 hospitalizations have  nearly quadrupled  to almost 800 in less than three weeks. In Utah, the state hospital association warned that if current trends hold, it will soon have to ask the governor to invoke “crisis standards of care” — a triage system that, for example, favors younger patients. “It’s an extreme situation, because this mean