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South Carolina voters decided to support the incumbent backed by President Donald Trump in the Republican Senate primary runoff election Tuesday. After longtime Sen. Lindsey Graham died unexpectedly in July, the president enthusiastically supported Republican Gov. Henry McMaster appointing Graham's sister, Darline Graham, to finish out the term. President Trump celebrated Graham's win on Truth Social.On Tuesday, Sen. Darline Graham ran in the runoff against 73-year-old Rep. Ralph Norman, a real estate developer and congressman since 2017. With about 91% of expected votes counted, Graham comfortably defeated Norman, 52.4% to 47.6%.President Trump celebrated Graham's win on Truth Social.Polling showed that Norman and Graham were neck-and-neck going into the election despite Trump endorsing Graham. Her campaign also hit a stumbling block when Graham was asked about a foreign policy point during a debate, and she admitted she was not knowledgeable about the subject. "I'm not a polished politician," Graham said at the time. "National security is not my thing, not my area of expertise, but I do support the military."She was ridiculed by her detractors but defended her comments in an appearance with Sean Hannity. Sen. Graham will face Democrat Annie Andrews, a physician, in NovemberRELATED: Lindsey Graham's sister appointed to serve out the rest of his term in the Senate Photo by Win McNamee/Getty ImagesTrump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC spent more than $827,000 to support Graham in the runoff. The president had praised Lindsey Graham greatly after his passing. "Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known, is dead!" Trump wrote in a post on social media. "He was always working, and was a true American Patriot. Lindsey will be greatly missed!!!"Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Detroit police were trying to determine why a mother and her child were found dead inside their home Thursday when the case got far worse the next day.Residents of the neighborhood called police after noticing a foul smell in the area for about a week and realizing it was coming from one home.Investigators said the death of the 50-year-old mother and the 14-year-old boy might be a murder-suicide.When police went at about 9:30 p.m. to check on the residents of the house on Stoepel Street, they found a dead woman and boy inside.Police said that they contacted the family of the mother and boy and discovered that they had not seen the father of the boy in some time."On Friday, after speaking with the family, we learned the woman's husband had not been seen or heard from in years," said Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison.When they returned to the home on Friday, they found the man's skeletal remains in the basement.Investigators said the death of the 50-year-old mother and the 14-year-old boy might be a murder-suicide. All of the people appeared to have been killed by gunshot wounds, but the autopsy results are pending.Neighbors told WXYZ-TV that they had not seen the husband in years and that the wife rarely left the home, except to occasionally receive a DoorDash food order. RELATED: Performing arts teacher arrested for possessing meth, LSD, and child porn, police say Samuel Jenkins, a resident of the neighborhood, said the incident had shocked residents."Everybody's heard about it in the neighborhood; it's a tragic situation," Jenkins told WXYZ."My heart goes out to that entire family," he added. "We just hope things get better for our community, and we as parents and grandparents work towards that goal." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

While BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey walked into "Jubilee’s Face Off" against Monte Mader, she was expecting a debate.But what she got was a “monologue-off.”She and Mader were each allowed to bring two claims. Her two claims were that Christians must oppose abortion and that Christians cannot affirm same-sex marriage.Mader’s claims were that America is not and will never be a Christian nation and that the patriarchy, not feminism, is at odds with Christ’s ministry and teaching.“So four total claims, and there are 16 minutes per claim that we get to go back and forth, and that is split into her eight minutes and my eight minutes,” Stuckey explains, noting that there were also no interruptions allowed in the debate.“It was really more of a monologue-off. Like it was her monologue, then my monologue. It wasn’t really a back-and-forth,” she explains, noting that the way it was set up made it difficult to respond to any claims.“They make too many claims in a matter of, say, five minutes that they’re talking. You’ve got to pick and choose what claims you are going to respond to. And never do you have the ability to stop and say, ‘Hang on a second ... you just said that, but earlier you said that,’” she says.In this format, there is no way to “define your terms,” which Stuckey says is the “most important part of any debate.”In one clip from the debate, her opponent claims that a baby in utero is “not a baby.”“That’s not me being contrarian. That’s accuracy. Embryo up to the end of eight weeks and then we have a fetus. And I think it’s very important so that we’re actually getting to the facts of the matter,” Mader said.“Do I have to put myself in harm’s way or risk death in order for this life to be viable? I think you have an absolutely solid argument after viability. But we know that that is not when the bulk of abortions happen,” she continued, adding that “late second and third trimester is almost exclusively for fatal fetal abnormalities, still births, partial miscarriages, and medical emergencies.”“First of all, fetus is Latin for small child, and so we can get into the semantics of it. It’s all a human being. I mean, just because we call a child a toddler or we call a child a baby doesn’t mean that it’s not a child, doesn’t mean that it’s not a human,” Stuckey responded.“Viability, extremely arbitrary standard for whether or not a person should be murdered. I mean, we’re not just talking about, OK, is it okay for the dentist to pull a tooth?” she added.“So as you can see, there are a million things that I could have responded to even in that. I could have responded to the fact that she’s now saying, ‘I have a good argument after viability’ when earlier she said that ‘life doesn’t begin until first breath,’” Stuckey comments.“I could have addressed this idea that late-term abortion, second and third trimester are only for all of these reasons like the health of the mother, cancer diagnosis. That’s not a reason to abort a child in the second or third trimester,” she continues.“It’s really easy when someone is spouting a lot of information that might seem factual because they’re very confident to kind of follow them down that trail, but that’s called a red herring. That is making an argument that is actually totally unrelated and irrelevant to the logic and the substance of the main claim,” she adds.Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Multi-Grammy-winning country singer and songwriter Kacey Musgraves is facing calls for a boycott after she asked her fans to support a legal aid organization helping the children of deported migrants.Musgraves has been directing some proceeds of her sales to the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, and she went farther during the Chicago opening night of her newest tour.'What happened to the country music industry?' "It’s a wonderful organization, and they help give aid — legal aid — and money to children whose parents have been deported unfairly,” Musgraves said at the United Center on Friday."It’s not a political thing. It’s just these kids need help," she added. "That would mean a lot to me. If you don't want to, that's totally fine too."While she got a lot of applause and support from her fans, there were some boos from the crowd as well.Many on social media said the plea would end Musgraves' career."'[Musgraves] has just officially ended her career by asking for money for criminals who used their children as pawns to commit crime and stay in America illegally. She could have asked for money for Americans who need assitance [sic] but nope. She's done!" said one critic."How about donating money the help kids who's [sic] parents have been killed by illegal immigrants! What happened to the country music industry?" replied another detractor."People need to stop giving money to these pieces of s**ts, and I'm talking about the likes of Kacey Musgraves, don't buy her music, don't go to her concerts. And if you do you might as well say you're okay with illegal immigration," read another reply."Boycott Kacey Musgraves Music! Her music sucks and her tour had nobody attending! Lmao," said another critic. In May Musgraves had a teenage mariachi band open for her concert after they made headlines for being previously detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.RELATED: Kacey Musgraves calls voting for Trump an ‘act of violence’ against LGBTQ community A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security defended the detention of the teens in a statement to KSAT-TV."The law requires illegal aliens who show up at a port of entry without valid entry to be detained while all their claims are heard. You can look it up in the statute," the spokesperson said."Unlike the previous administration, the Trump administration is not going to ignore the rule of law," the spokesperson added. "Every day, the brave men and women of ICE are arresting and DEPORTING dangerous criminal illegal aliens, including gang members, from our country."Musgraves' "Middle of Nowhere" tour will continue on to New York, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!