Tuesday’s Campaign Round-Up, 10.27.26: Annie Andrews picks up key GOP endorsement

With a week left before Election Day, Democrat Annie Andrews, the pediatrician challenging Senator Graham in South Carolina, picked up support from two former governors of the state: Republican David Beasley and Democrat Jim Hodges. The pair appear together in a video, and Beasley, a past chair of the Republican Governors Association, argued that Andrews would work to improve things instead of stoking anger, according to MS NOW.

In Alaska, election officials asked a federal judge late Monday to throw out at once a Justice Department suit that would block the Senate outcome if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses, calling it legally baseless. The government's theory rests on voters mixing up two candidates named Dan Sullivan, though Alaska also had two on its 2014 ballot.

A Marist survey in Maine shows Democrat Troy Jackson at 49% and Republican Sen. Susan Collins at 47%. In Pennsylvania, Republican Rep. Scott Perry and Democrat Janelle Stelson are tied at 48%, with Democrats modestly ahead in the other three races polled. A data center industry group, Building the Future, has put more than $1.5 million behind Republican Ty Masterson for Kansas governor.

Summarized by PolitiKool from MS NOW’s reporting. Read the full story at MS NOW →