Darline Graham may go down as the most baffling Republican nominee of the 2026 midterms. The only reason she was put forward is that she was a dead senator’s sibling. She didn’t seem to have much in the way of views or motivation. She should never have gotten the endorsement, and everyone who had anything to do with that decision should have no role in the 2028 election.
Some people are still defending this train wreck. They shouldn’t. Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage Magazine has the right of it: there was no reason to run her except a shared last name and a presumed incumbency that was more of a minus than a plus in a change election.