There is such is excited about the results of last Tuesday’s midterm elections, but one of the most important is finding out who South Carolina’s senator-elect, Annie Andrews, a Democrat, really is.
In short, she is one of us.
“The party that raises Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old killer, and tears down Gus Walz, a 17-year-old with special needs who loves his father, is a party that needs to be lit and tossed in the dumpster and plunged into the deepest depths of the ocean, never to be seen again,” she wrote in an August 2024 article.
And it wasn’t an anomaly. Andrews has been a doctrinaire liberal in a state hostile to liberals.
A competent conservative effort likely would have brought Andrews to his knees, despite President Donald Trump’s bizarre decision to turn the South Carolina GOP over to Darline Graham, one of the least qualified senatorial candidates since Alabama’s Tommy Tuberville.
Yet Andrews was lucky: The Republican Party and its vast right-wing media machine were obsessively focused on Michigan and the prospect of underground Muslims enforcing sharia law. The disparity in attention is glaring, as this graph compiled by user X Louis Riel shows.
Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat, had more than 4,000 mentions on Fox News from September 7 to November 3, with 45.2 hours listed in the chart.
His Republican opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers, finished second with nearly 2,000 mentions and 23.6 hours.
El-Sayed’s friend Hasan Piker, the controversial Turkish-American commentator and livestreamer known for his caustic stances on U.S. domestic and foreign policy, placed fourth with nearly 1,400 mentions and 16.4 hours.
Together, their registrations total 85.2 hours, the equivalent of more than three and a half full days.
They represent 45% of mentions and hours Fox has dedicated himself to every Senate race this cycle. This is a staggering and obsessive concern as Republicans play defense on a vast map that would allow Democrats to defend themselves. nine Senate microphones once all votes have been counted in Alaska and Mississippi.
Meanwhile, Andrews – with his trove of past statements – got 84 mentions and 1.2 hours of coverage.
And it’s not like Republicans don’t know these positions exist. This MAGA account highlighted a segment in which Fox News host Bret Baier used Andrews’ posts to challenge her during an appearance:
Yet Graham’s campaign failed to turn any of this into a winning argument, another sign of a campaign as incompetent and ineffective as its candidate. And Fox News’ instincts were clearly wrong. It was a godsend for them, if only they could have taken a slight break from their OMG MUSLIMSSSS obsession.
Good for us, good for Annie.
She’s awesome.
PS Watch the Mississippi Senate race at the bottom. Democratic Senator-elect Scott Colom of Mississippi only got seven endorsements! These are two races that have benefited from the lack of attention paid to the right, thank goodness.
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