Paul Dans Launches GOP Senate Bid Against Lindsey Graham, Igniting MAGA Showdown in South Carolina

COLUMBIA, SC — The political earthquake we've been waiting for just hit the Palmetto State.

Paul Dans — the brilliant strategist and fearless patriot and behind the known as Project 2025 — has officially declared war on D.C.’s most notorious chameleon: Senator Lindsey Graham.

Yes, the same Lindsey Graham who has spent the last decade flip-flopping between pretending to support President Donald J. Trump and cozying up to the globalist elite behind closed doors. Now, his time is up. The people of South Carolina — and America — deserve a warrior, not a weather vane.

Dans, who served in the Trump administration and architected the Project 2025 plan to dismantle the bureaucratic deep state, confirmed to the Associated Press that he’s entering the Republican primary. His goal? Finish what Trump started — by draining the last toxic corner of the Swamp: the U.S. Senate.

“What we’ve done with Project 2025 is really change the game in terms of closing the door on the progressive era,” Dans said. “If you look at where the chokepoint is, it’s the United States Senate. That’s the headwaters of the swamp.”

Let’s be clear: Paul Dans isn’t just another politician. He’s a builder of the new American right — a visionary who sees past the tired D.C. games and straight into the soul of this Republic.

According to Project 2025, The Project 2025 was never about tweaking around the edges. It was a declaration of war on the administrative state, on weaponized federal agencies, and on the socialist rot infecting Washington. Under Dans' guidance, the project laid out a roadmap to gut the federal bureaucracy, slash wasteful programs, and restore constitutional order.

Now, Dans wants to bring that fire to the Senate — a chamber long held hostage by career compromisers like Graham.

Make no mistake: this won’t be a quiet race. Graham, whose loyalty to Trump has always been murky at best, is scrambling. MAGA grassroots groups are already rallying behind Dans, who represents the real conservative revolution — not the D.C. cocktail party class Graham belongs to.

South Carolina will be the proving ground for the soul of the GOP in 2026. Will the people choose bold action over empty rhetoric? Principle over pandering?

Dans is betting they will.

“There’s more work to do,” Dans told AP. And he’s right. The House MAGA Caucus can only do so much if the Senate keeps acting like a speed bump on the road to national restoration.

With MAGA leading in national polls and poised for a triumphant return in 2028, Dans' candidacy signals the next wave of the America First movement: serious reformers, not seat-warming careerists.

South Carolina now finds itself at the crossroads of history. One path leads to more compromise and capitulation. The other leads to realignment — a renewed Republic with a Senate that serves the people, not the permanent class.

Paul Dans challenging the entire corrupt order that’s betrayed the American people for decades.

And in this fight, real patriots don’t sit on the sidelines.