Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.
* In South Carolina, Sen. Lindsey Graham’s political future is suddenly a bit complicated: Paul Dans, the architect of the right-wing Project 2025 blueprint, is launching a Republican primary campaign against the GOP incumbent. Former Lt. Gov. André Bauer is also taking on Graham.
* In North Carolina, one day after former Gov. Roy Cooper launched his long-awaited Democratic U.S. Senate campaign, former Democratic Rep. Wiley Nickel ended his own Senate bid, clearing the way for the former governor to win his party’s nomination without a primary.
* With 14 weeks remaining in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race, the latest Fairleigh Dickinson poll found Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill leading former Republican legislator Jack Ciattarelli, 45% to 37%, among likely voters. (Click the link for more information on the poll’s methodology and margin of error.)
* Apple is poised to roll out a new operating system on iPhones that will make it more difficult for political fundraising texts to reach users — and this is apparently generating considerable concern within the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
* In Nevada, Gov. Joe Lombardo is generally seen as one of next year’s more vulnerable Republican incumbents, which made it all the more notable that Aaron Ford, the state’s Democratic attorney general, kicked off his gubernatorial candidacy this week.
* With former Republican Rep. Mark Green having officially resigned from Congress earlier this month, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has scheduled a Dec. 2 special election to fill the vacancy. Given that Green represents a red district in a red state, GOP officials are confident about keeping the seat in Republican hands.
* And in Georgia, where Rep. Mike Collins launched a U.S. Senate campaign this week, there was an unfortunate misstep on the Republican’s first day as a statewide candidate: Collins’ first campaign video misspelled his home state’s name.
