A Self-Described "MAGA Rambo" Is Challenging Lindsey Graham: Paul Dans was the brains behind Project 2025, the

I can see why Trump would choose Lindsey --he is the sneaky workhorse in the Repug Senate--gets the votes lined up to pass his vile bills.
This Dan character would take the spotlight away from Trump
and a bigly threat to Trumps fragile Ego!!



A Self-Described “MAGA Rambo” Is Challenging Lindsey Graham
Paul Dans was the brains behind Project 2025, the right-wing governing blueprint Trump is following. Now he’s primarying Lindsey Graham in what he’s framing as a “cage match for the future of MAGA.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/a-self-described-maga-rambo-is-challenging-lindsey-graham


By Eric Lutz August 8, 2025



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Now that Project 2025 is on its way to becoming the law of the land, Dans has come to believe that Graham isn’t sufficiently committed to the president’s agenda. The race, he says, is a “steel-cage match for the future of MAGA.” In one corner, there’s Dans, who boasts of being “one of President Trump’s top fighters,” and was the architect of the plan to consolidate executive power, dismantle the administrative state, and impose a conservative social agenda on the nation. In the other is Graham, a “70-year-old childless warmonger with no stake in the future of this country” and a “MAGA pretender,” as Dans describes him.

At first glance, the race seems set up to be yet another Trump-era purity test—an over-the-top loyalist taking on an over-the-hill, old guard Republican, one who, just about a decade ago, urged his party to tell Trump to “go to hell” if it truly wanted to make America great. “His act is over. It’s Sunset Boulevard for him,” Dans tells me.

But is it? Graham received the president’s coveted “Complete and Total Endorsement” for his reelection campaign this spring. “Lindsey has been a wonderful friend to me,” Trump posted in late March, “and has always been there when I needed him.” Dans tells me he views Trump’s endorsement as “premature.” (Trump “endorses what I stand for on a daily basis,” Dans says.) But a White House spokesperson told me this week that Trump stands by his Graham endorsement. And Chris LaCivita, Trump’s 2024 co-campaign manager and a current senior adviser to Graham’s reelection effort, has accused Dans of having “parachuted” into the race, telling Vanity Fair that he’s attacked “one of the key GOP Senate leaders responsible for passing the lion’s share of President Trump’s key campaign promises”: “Paul Dans thinks South Carolina Republicans are dopes,” LaCivita adds. “Not only is Dans the dope, but he’s the antithesis of common sense.”

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DANS REVOLUTION: The Project 2025 architect is challenging longtime South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.DOMINIC GWINN/Getty Images.