Mark Lynch visits Pee Dee Area including Marion and Waccamaw Neck

Mark Lynch is running for U.S. Senate in opposition to Lindsay Graham. Last night, he visited the Waccamaw Neck Republican party in Georgetown.

This after just previously speaking at an event with the Marion County Republican Party.

The South Carolina Bulletin on Substack covered this event.

Mark Lynch: A New Vision for South Carolina

It began as many small town GOP gatherings do with heads bowed in prayer, hands on hearts for the Pledge of Allegiance. But what unfolded inside the monthly Marion County Republican meeting grew into something far more significant, a vivid snapshot of a Republican Party in revolt.

Two challengers to Senator Lindsey Graham Paul Dans and Mark Lynch dominated the evening, representing a new generation of America First populists intent on dethroning the state’s most entrenched political power broker.

While Dans’ campaign manager appeared on his behalf, Mark Lynch himself took the stage and owned the room delivering a passionate, and unequivocally Christian nationalist vision that merged faith, nationalism, and anti establishment rebellion under one banner: “God First, America First.”

For almost an hour, Mark Lynch held the attention of more than fifty county Republicans packed into the room a mix of Marion County GOP members, local residents, Horry County residents and a representative from Florence County’s Turning Point USA chapter. His speech oscillated between sermon and stump, drawing applause and amens.

“I’m not here to be politically correct,” Mark Lynch declared. “We’ve let politicians sell out our faith, our country, and our children. That ends now.”

Attendees later remarked on his authenticity and presence. One local party member summed up the mood. “We’re trying to turn Marion County red and Mark Lynch feels like one of us.”

Mark Lynch’s campaign slogan is not a catchphrase it’s the axis around which his entire political identity revolved that evening.

He framed the decline of American strength as a spiritual crisis before a political one. “When you remove God, you remove truth. When you remove truth, the nation falls into tyranny,” Mark Lynch said, urging conservatives to stand unashamedly on biblical principles.

Under that philosophical banner, his platform unfolds in five central planks that combine populist economics, moral conservatism, and aggressive anti-establishment messaging.

Mark Lynch’s pro life stance leaves little ambiguity. Calling abortion “murder that cries out from the soil,” he openly supports. A federal ban on abortion, ending it nationwide. Legal prosecution for both abortion providers and controversially women who undergo abortions.

“Accountability is not cruelty,” Mark Lynch said firmly. “If we say life begins at conception, then the law must follow that truth. Period.”

Pivoting from moral issues to working class economics, Lynch outlined a “Faith in Work” agenda focused on re-industrialization, fiscal discipline, and resistance to ideological infiltration in the economy.

He pledged to fight inflation and pursue a balanced federal budget, support domestic manufacturing and reduce dependence on Chinese imports, abolish DEI initiatives in universities and public services, calling them “cultural Marxism disguised as fairness.”

“The government doesn’t create prosperity,” Lynch said. “Honest work and free markets do. But you can’t have free markets when bureaucrats play God from D.C.”

On immigration, Lynch offered one of his sharpest contrasts with Graham and drew some of the night’s loudest applause.

He vowed to, shut down the southern border until “every illegal immigrant is deported or processed legally.” End all refugee resettlement programs, and confront what he called Islamic infiltration in national policy, a phrase that echoed throughout conservative small groups after the event.

“Lindsey Graham talks tough on Fox News,” Lynch said, shaking his head, “but when the lobbyists come calling, he folds faster than a beach chair. That’s not leadership, that’s betrayal.”

Lynch’s anti establishment attack lines hit their target, career politicians and attorneys.

“Lawyers turned politicians write the laws that keep themselves untouchable,” he said. “It’s time we let doers, not talkers, fix Washington.”

As President of Jeff Lynch Appliance Center since 1985, Lynch proudly described himself as a blue collar businessman who’s built jobs, met payrolls, and weathered recessions without government bailouts.

“I’ve signed paychecks for forty years. Lindsey Graham’s signed sound bites,” he quipped to roaring laughter.

That line alone seemed to encapsulate the night’s energy earned experience versus political theater.

Though Donald Trump has yet to endorse either challenger, Lynch declared himself “a loyal MAGA conservative who won’t stab the movement in the back.”

He accused Graham of “betraying Trump when the cameras were off,” and of being part of the Washington two step opposing Democrats rhetorically while voting with them on spending, Ukraine, and judicial appointments.

“Lindsey is a man who praises Trump on Monday and votes with Schumer on Friday,” Lynch said. “South Carolina deserves a backbone, not a weather vane.”

Lynch’s campaign is no isolated endeavor. He enjoys the open support of the South Carolina Freedom Caucus and United Patriots Alliance, groups known for their grassroots organizing and deep distrust of establishment Republicans.

He’s also maintained a visible national profile, with appearances at CPAC 2025 and interviews on Right Side Broadcasting Network, where he framed the 2026 race as “a test of whether the party still belongs to the people or to the D.C. insiders.”

In Marion County, Lynch emphasized that his campaign is self funded and people powered, relying on small donations and local volunteers rather than national donors.

The Marion County GOP meeting captured something larger than local party enthusiasm, a fundamental realignment within conservative politics in South Carolina.

Paul Dans appeals to constitutional populists and policy minded nationalists.

Mark Lynch rallies faith first conservatives and working class voters.

Both share the same enemy Lindsey Graham’s political dynasty, and the entrenched elite culture that has governed Washington for half a century.

Interestingly, attendees expressed respect for Dans campaign manager but disappointment that Dans himself couldn’t attend, with several noting how energizing it would be if both candidates toured the state together.

Both Lynch and Dans are harnessing an uprising of moral outrage and institutional exhaustion. The GOP base in South Carolina, particularly in counties like Marion, is spiritually awakened and politically restless no longer content with platitudes or power games.

While Lindsey Graham remains formidable, his challengers are tapping into something his office cannot manufacture: authentic conviction and local trust.

The upcoming Republican primary isn’t merely a contest of candidates. It’s a referendum on the direction of the Republican Party itself between politics as usual and a vision that begins, as one speaker declared, “with God on His throne and the people back in charge.”