'Political malpractice': Republicans rattled as Trump races to rescue ruby-red Senate seat

President Donald Trump is heading to South Carolina on Wednesday for the second time in two months in an attempt to rescue a Senate seat his party considered safe until recently – and some Republicans are furious they have to defend it at all.Republican Sen. Darline Graham is in an unexpectedly close race with Democrat Annie Andrews in a state that hasn’t sent a Democrat to the Senate since 1998, MS NOW reported, and the Cook Political Report moved the race Tuesday from “likely Republican” to “lean Republican" – the second downgrade in recent weeks.“It’s political malpractice that we’re even having to spend money in the state,” one South Carolina GOP official told MS NOW. “That money is better used in other states, but we are here, and this is the cards that we have to play right now.”The official didn't shy away from blaming the president's preferred candidate. “There’s...