in 2021<\/a> \u2014 commanded an entry fee of $25,000, while the second iteration of the pair\u2019s paid outing in Bedminster, N.J., in 2022 commanded a similar admission price.<\/p>\nWhile expectations for a projected fundraising haul from the November event are unclear, Team Graham says it is “hoping for a decent turnout.”<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is going to be a big, big event,\u201d Graham said in a statement. \u201cIt will not only help me tremendously, but it will help others who support President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n
With more than $18.7 million raised since his re-election in 2020, Graham currently ranks as Congress\u2019 fourth-strongest Republican fundraiser on the ballot next year, and the most formidable Republican by some $6.2 million over the closest runner-up, Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty.<\/p>\n
He also has some $14.5 million in the bank, according to his most recent disclosures with the Federal Elections Commission.<\/p>\n
And even with a half-million dollars raised from cash contributions in the third quarter of 2025, Graham \u2014 with a total combined raise of about $1.38 million from a mix of fund transfers and other contributions \u2014 remains the only South Carolina Republican in the race for U.S. Senate with any fundraising momentum.<\/p>\n
The current S.C. Senate race picture looks like:<\/p>\n
The Republican National Committee, which will share the proceeds of the event with Graham and Trump\u2019s campaign committees, is sitting pretty as well, outraising their Democratic counterparts by roughly $32 million since January 1 while maintaining a roughly $69 million cash on-hand advantage.<\/p>\n
The success has been somewhat uneven.<\/p>\n
The National Republican Senate Committee, which raised some $59.5 million this year, has been bleeding cash, and currently has approximately half the amount of money in its coffers Graham currently has for his own campaign.<\/p>\n
Despite being outraised by their Republican counterparts to the tune of $8 million this year, the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee currently has some $12.2 million in the bank at a time the party is eyeing potential flip opportunities in states like Maine, North Carolina and Ohio alongside must-defend seats in the battlegrounds of Georgia and Michigan.<\/p>\n
Update:<\/strong> This story has been updated to reflect fund transfers to Graham\u2019s campaign account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBIA \u2014 Talk about an expensive tee time. Longtime golfing pals U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham and President Donald…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":319705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[17032,11119,69,1580,1430,16541,160338,65173,5620,147569,62,67,132,68,21150],"class_list":{"0":"post-319704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-2026-election","9":"tag-campaign-finance","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-fundraiser","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-lindsey-graham","14":"tag-mark-lynch","15":"tag-paul-dans","16":"tag-republicans","17":"tag-south-carolina-news","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-us-senate"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115409006527218239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}