GOP party fissures exposed in battle for S.C. Senate seat to replace Graham: 'I don't like hearing that'

The five GOP candidates that appeared in South Carolina’s U.S. Senate debate on Monday evening touched on several key issues of national importance as they made their case to fill the seat of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham , R-S.C., who died while in office last month. Although candidates remained united on broad issues of party consensus, the debate exposed a fraying of opinion on topics like the war in Iran , U.S. government spending, the filibuster and datacenter expansion, highlighting the inf