— Nancy Mace, the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, and state Sen. Lee Bright, one of the Legislatures more outspoken libertarians, say they will announce soon that they will run against U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham in next years Republican primary. Nancy Mace is scheduled to officially announce her political plans on Saturday, and the married mother of two is already signaling her intent to oust Mr. Graham from office next year by asking supporters to donate to her campaign. “Washington is out of touch, and the only way to change Washington is to change who we send to Washington.” 
 
 Mr. Graham appears to be in good financial shape as he looks toward winning a third term. Mace, who runs a Charleston public relations agency that has done political work, said she would talk about her campaign then. “In Senator Graham’s world, the Constitution doesn’t exist,” she wrote. “In Senator Graham’s world, the entire Bill of Rights is negotiable.” 
 
 Mace’s phrasing is a play on Graham’s criticism of Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul in the wake of the NSA leaks: “[I]n Rand Paul’s world, you have almost no defense against terrorists.” 
 
 “In Senator Graham’s world, arming al-Qaeda in Syria is a good idea,” Mace retorted. With only 10 months before the June 2014 primary, Mace, Bright and Cash need to raise lots of cash fast to have a chance of overcoming the $6.3 million that the Graham campaign has on hand.
– Lindsey Graham has drawn a potentially formidable primary challenger. Nancy Mace, the first woman to ever graduate from the Citadel, plans to throw her hat in the ring, she tells the Daily Caller. Mace, 35, graduated from the military college back in 1999, and has since written a memoir and founded a PR firm. She'll officially announce her candidacy tomorrow, but she's already been raising money in preparation, the Washington Times reports. Mace has gotten a head start attacking Graham online; in a Red State column last month she savaged him at length for supporting the NSA's phone surveillance programs. In another on the Caller she sounds like she's trying out campaign language, with a series of "South Carolina needs a senator who..." statements as she blasts him for backing immigration reform. But Mace will also have to beat two other libertarian-leaning challengers who could split the Tea Party vote, the State points out.