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fujiyamasan

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70. I'm sure he would make a fine senator

Sun Jul 12, 2026, 09:32 PM

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He certainly intelligent and witty and his politics appear to be in the right place. There are a few major problems though:

-this is South Carolina, aka Bible Belt MAGATland
-he’d be running as a Democrat
-he’s Catholic (yes, a lot other Christians don’t believe Catholicism is Christianity)
-Trump would personally get involved and he still holds sway here (becuase of point number one)

I’d rather not waste money in the state for now. We saw what happened with Jaime Harrison. He raised a ton of money and still got crushed by Graham in 2020.

Colbert’s celebrity really wouldn’t help him much and would possibly even hurt him in the state. Sure he has connections, but he’d still be seen as a NY or Hollywood librul.

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