Tim Scott calls Democrats a 'dark force' ahead of midterms, says 'God's hand' is still on the US

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., declared that “God’s hand is still on the United States of America” while warning about a “dark force" ahead of the upcoming midterm elections.

During an appearance at a South Carolina rally headlined by President Donald Trump last week, Scott called God “the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, the Alpha and the Omega.”

“I believe His hand is still on our amazing nation,” he reiterated, warning about “a dark force coming from the radical, weird, dangerous left that wants to change the very DNA of what it means to be Americans.”

Scott spoke at a rally for appointed Sen. Darline Graham Nordone, R-S.C., who is running for a full term this year after replacing her late brother, Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., after his death this summer. 

The state’s senior senator criticized Graham Nordone's Democratic opponent, pediatrician Annie Andrews, calling her one of the “dangerous, radical and weird candidates” on the ballot this year.

“She wants to abandon all of our rights that we know come from God, not from man,” he said. “This is America, the United States of America, and we stand strong on our rights because they didn’t come from man. They come from God.”

“She believes in letting men play in girls’ sports,” Scott added, likely referring to Andrews' past opposition to legislation prohibiting male trans-identified individuals from playing in women’s sports and barring medical providers from performing sex-change surgeries and prescribing sex hormones to trans-identified children.

Although Andrews has released an ad saying she doesn't support men playing women’s sports and said she hasn't performed gender surgery for minors, Graham's campaign has claimed that Andrews isn't honest about her stance on those issues. 

“She believes that the police are the problem," Scott added during his speech. "I believe that we should stand and celebrate every single police officer in this building. I can see you right over there. Thank God for our law enforcement officers.”

Scott touted South Carolina as a “conservative, ruby red state," which backed Trump by nearly 18 percentage points in the 2024 presidential election. However, polling shows a somewhat competitive Senate race. Graham Nordone leads Andrews by 2.7 percentage points in the RealClearPolitics polling average.

“We must elect Darline Graham,” Scott claimed. “We must protect the United States of America from the dangerous, radical, weird group of socialists running as Democrats.”

Scott spent much of his speech on Andrews, but he also denounced Texas’ Democratic Senate candidate, James Talarico, as “a communist socialist who believes that God is non-binary." He said Talarico “believes in six genders.”

Last month, Talarico walked back his claim that there are six sexes and also moderated his stance on transgender surgeries and women's sports. 

“I missed the mark on some of my past statements; I’ll be the first to admit it,” Talarico said during a Fox News interview. “What I meant is there are two sexes and there’s a small percentage of people with genetic abnormalities. Obviously I didn’t say it correctly. There are not six sexes, there are two.”

In his rally speech, Scott described Michigan’s Democratic Senate candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, as a “guy whose family, his mother was a part of the funding apparatus for Osama Bin Laden,” referring to his mother's ties to the Islamic American Relief Agency, which was declared a terrorist organization by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2004. Sayed has pushed back against claims about his family coming from his Republican opponent Mike Rogers, saying he wasn't raised by his mother and that his mother worked as a nurse.

Polling in Michigan and Texas shows the Democratic candidates ahead.

In Michigan, El-Sayed leads Rogers by 2.5 percentage points in the RealClearPolitics polling average, while in Texas, Talarico leads Republican Ken Paxton by 1.8 points.

Republicans control 53 seats in the U.S. Senate, so Democrats need a net gain of four seats to take control of the chamber in next week’s midterm elections.

If they hold all of their own seats, including the open Democratic-held seat in Michigan, Democrats must flip four Republican-held seats. Democrats have a large lead in the race for the Republican-held seat in North Carolina, while their leads in the races for the Republican-held seats in Ohio, Maine and Alaska are smaller.