I never thought I’d see the day.

Sen.-elect Annie Andrews (D-SC) has a long track record of supporting gun control and treating firearms deaths, especially among minors, as a public health issue, a break from tradition in a state that has historically strongly backed Second Amendment rights.

Andrews, the Senate’s first female physician and first pediatrician, credits her stance on gun control to her experience treating children who have unintentionally shot themselves after finding an unsecured firearm

Her views on gun control, including universal background checks and mandatory safe storage laws, are largely out of step with prior senators from South Carolina who have been staunch Second Amendment supporters representing a state that used to be a Republican stronghold.

Andrews defeated Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) by 5 percentage points in an unexpected victory for a blue wave election favoring Democrats across the country.

Graham was appointed by Gov. Henry McMaster (R-SC) to replace her brother, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, after his sudden death in August. President Donald Trump encouraged Graham to run for a full term in the Senate instead of only serving the remainder of her brother’s term through January 2027.

On the campaign trail, Graham targeted Andrews’s history of anti-gun violence advocacy, telling reporters in Columbia in October that Andrews is “hell-bent on gutting the Second Amendment and taking your guns.”

Andrews has rebutted the allegations from both Graham and Trump that she wants to take away guns and has instead focused on gun deaths as a public health issue for children.

“My platform to address the public health crisis of gun violence does not infringe on the Second Amendment,” Andrews said. “I support the Second Amendment, law-abiding citizens’ rights to own firearms, but I know we need to do something about this public health crisis.”

In addition to background checks and safe storage rules, Andrews says she supports “banning weapons of war from our streets,” including AR-style rifles.

She doesn’t infringe on the 2A, but wants to take away guns. This is communist logic. Only the elite know what’s best for you and society and it’s okay to lie to you.

So this is all the case whether there was cheating in the election or not. Darline Graham was an awful candidate, and Trump once again showed his bad instincts. But even with an awful candidate and even with cheating – which is likely the case – it’s astonishing that S.C. has voted for a liberal gun controller.

I never thought I’d see the day. N.C. for sure, but S.C.? It’s like a bad dream.