Campaign

Mark Lynch, a one-time Statehouse candidate and Upstate business owner, is challenging Lindsey Graham for his U.S. Senate seat in 2026.

In a campaign launch event Feb. 10 at his Greenville appliance store — Jeff Lynch Appliance and TV Center — Lynch called for a return to God-fearing leadership and adherence to the Constitution, urging voters to support his campaign to replace Graham, whom he portrayed as ineffective and untrustworthy.

Mark Lynch, a conservative businessman running against Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), is seeking to use an email between Paul Harstad, former President Barack Obama’s top pollster, and John Podesta, the co-chairman on the Obama transition team, to show Graham is an “undercover Democrat.”