Keishan Scott secured a decisive victory in South Carolina’s rural District 50, defeating Republican challenger William Oden by nearly 41 points, according to unofficial results released Tuesday night by the South Carolina Election Commission.

As The Daily Beast noted, this is the same district that Vice President Kamala Harris won during the 2024 presidential election.

“This victory is definitely not mine alone,” Scott declared in a victory speech posted on his Facebook page. “It belongs to all of the people of District 50… I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for your vote of confidence.”

With this win, Scott becomes the youngest member of the South Carolina House, which remains under Republican control. His victory drew praise from Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin.

“As long as Trump and MAGA Republicans peddle an out-of-touch agenda that puts billionaires’ interests first and takes away health care from millions of Americans, they will continue to sink and lose,” said Martin in a statement.

Scott’s election comes as Senator Lindsey Graham faces criticism over his recent trip to Ukraine, where some of his comments were viewed as undermining President Donald Trump’s policies regarding the ongoing conflict.

In a video posted to X, Graham said that Congress is ready to act against Russia, even without President Trump’s backing.

Praising Ukraine’s drone attack, Graham wrote on X, “The ever-resourceful Ukraine used creative drone warfare tactics to successfully attack Russian bombers and military assets used to kill Ukrainian citizens and destroy their country.”

He also implied that if Russia pursued a ceasefire and entered negotiations, the U.S. might refrain from further involvement: “playing its cards.”

Former Trump advisor and current War Room podcast host Steve Bannon harshly rebuked Graham’s trip to Kyiv, criticizing his meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky and claiming it misled Ukrainians about American support, according to The Hill.

“We can’t have Lindsey Graham, and particularly Zelensky, leading us into a third world war with a deep strike into Russia,” Bannon told Chris Cuomo during an interview on NewsNation’s Cuomo.

Bannon had previously called for Graham to be jailed over his pro-Ukraine remarks—comments that drew strong pushback. During their exchange, Cuomo pressed Bannon to explain his reasoning.

“I don’t understand how you could want to jail a U.S. senator because he’s saying something you don’t like,” Cuomo said. “That sounds like the worst of the deep state and lawfare.”

“No, it’s absolutely — what he’s doing over there right now is stirring it up. He’s giving the Ukrainians false hope,” Bannon replied. Cuomo interjected: “But it’s not illegal.”

“So maybe he’s wrong, but why do you say throw him in jail?” Cuomo asked.

“Two things ought to happen: Either cancel his passport and don’t let him back in the country, or put him in jail if he comes back,” Bannon said. “The attack was audacious.”

“It was brilliant. But the problem is it gets us involved in a conflict that no one in the United States wants to be part of,” he continued.

Cuomo responded by agreeing that Bannon’s concern about escalation was valid but disagreed with his punitive stance.

“I’m just saying you can’t be throwing people in jail because you don’t like what they say. That’s my only point,” Cuomo said. “I’m not saying that you’re wrong about where this might lead and how dangerous it is.”