# Post ts_117548731761734326

- Post ID: `ts_117548731761734326`
- Platform: Truth Social
- Posted: 2026-11-02T20:28:22.516Z (UTC)
- Deleted: no
- Repost: no
- Canonical URL: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117548731761734326
- Analysis page: https://trump.fm/post/ts_117548731761734326/analysis

## Post text

> TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GET OUT AND VOTE FOR:
>
> – Darline Graham for U.S. Senate
> – Alan Wilson for Governor
> – Cody Simpson for Agriculture Commissioner
> – Jenny Costa Honeycutt for U.S. Congress (SC-01)
> – Joe Wilson for U.S. Congress (SC-02)
> – Sheri Biggs for U.S. Congress (SC-03)
> – William Timmons for U.S. Congress (SC-04)
> – Wes Climer for U.S. Congress (SC-05)
> – Russell Fry for U.S. Congress (SC-07)
>
> These Great Patriots have my Complete and Total Endorsement — They will never let you down! President DONALD J. TRUMP
> https://swampthevoteusa.com/south-carolina/

## What the media says

**Image** (other), described automatically; these are a machine's words about the picture, not the poster's:

> A dark red campaign graphic with a "TEAM TRUMP" logo at top and a faint, dark-red tinted image of a suited man pointing toward the viewer in the background. Gold title text names South Carolina's Trump-endorsed candidates for the November 3, 2026 midterm elections. Five circular headshots in boxed cards show statewide candidates: Governor Alan Wilson, Attorney General David Stumbo, Secretary of State Mark Hammond, Agriculture Commissioner Cody Simpson (wearing a cap), and U.S. Senate Darline Graham (a woman with shoulder-length brown hair). Below, a "U.S. House" section shows six circular headshots with district numbers: Jenny Costa Honeycutt (01), Joe Wilson (02), Sheri Biggs (03), William Timmons (04), Wes Climer (05), Russell Fry (07). A gold footer bar gives a website URL.

Text in the image: "TEAM TRUMP SOUTH CAROLINA ★ TRUMP-ENDORSED CANDIDATES ★ NOVEMBER 3, 2026 MIDTERM ELECTIONS Governor Alan Wilson Attorney General David Stumbo Secretary of State Mark Hammond Agriculture Commissioner Cody Simpson U.S. Senate Darline Graham U.S. House Jenny Costa Honeycutt (01) Joe Wilson (02) Sheri Biggs (03) William Timmons (04) Wes Climer (05) Russell Fry (07) VISIT SWAMPTHEVOTEUSA.COM"

## Media

- image: https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/117/548/733/861/694/914/original/ab2fc0432b29816a.jpg

## Engagement

- Likes: 2,216
- Reposts: 640
- Replies: 139
- Views: unknown
- Metrics collected: 2026-11-03T17:01:31.653Z (UTC)

# Analysis

_Machine-generated by trump.fm on 2026-11-02T23:54:47.542Z (UTC): a model's reading of this post, not his words. Its psychological terms describe the language, not a clinical assessment of him._

## A slate card for the night before the vote

Posted at 3:28 PM Eastern on Monday, November 2 (daylight time ended the day before, so UTC-5). Election Day was the next morning. The historian record puts him at Mar-a-Lago running tele-rallies over the weekend, and Florida and Washington share the clock, so the location question doesn't change the reading. The same afternoon brought five separate South Carolina endorsement posts, one each for Darline Graham, Alan Wilson, Cody Simpson, Jenny Costa Honeycutt and Joe Wilson. This post gathers them, adds four more House names, and links to the RNC's "Swamp the Vote" landing page for the state. It reads as the last item in a scheduled run of state posts.

## Who wrote it

Nearly everything points to staff. The post is built from a template: an all-caps opening ("TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GET OUT AND VOTE FOR:"), a list with en-dash bullets and correct district codes ("SC-01", "SC-07"), the stock closing formula "Complete and Total Endorsement — They will never let you down!", and a signature line, "President DONALD J. TRUMP". A signature in the third person is a sign of a template; when he types a post himself he doesn't sign it. The district numbering skips SC-06, the one seat held by a Democrat (Clyburn), which takes a staffer who knows the map. The only marks of his own voice are the Capitalized Nouns ("Great Patriots", "Complete and Total"), and campaign staff have copied that habit for years. Nothing in the post drifts off topic, interrupts itself, or contains a real typo.

The text doesn't quite match its graphic. The image lists Attorney General David Stumbo and Secretary of State Mark Hammond, and the written list leaves both out. That fits text and card being made separately from one endorsement database, more than anyone composing the post by hand. It's a small detail, and it says nothing about his state of mind.

## What publishing it does

The behavior here is lending his name, and the post treats an endorsement as something he hands out. "These Great Patriots have my Complete and Total Endorsement" makes his approval the credential, and "They will never let you down!" vouches for nine people's future conduct on his say-so. That serves agency motives: loyalty is rewarded, and the party map in South Carolina is drawn around who he has blessed. In McAdams' terms he plays the kingmaker, the patron whose approval decides who is legitimate. No opponent is named, and nothing is set up as a contrast. In the same afternoon's Alan Wilson post he called Jermaine Johnson a "Radical Left Dumocrat", but that attack stays in the single-candidate posts and stays out of this summary. Leaving it out keeps this post affirmative and limits it to mobilizing voters. It is the calm end of the day's material.

Idealization is the only defense on show, and it is mild: every endorsee is a "Great Patriot", with no distinctions among them. Taken one name at a time this is ordinary campaign praise. It matters only next to the devaluation in the companion posts, where the same praise sits opposite a "Reckless, Radical" opponent. The split runs across the set of posts and isn't visible inside this one.

The rhetoric is plain get-out-the-vote work: imperative mood, superlatives ("GREAT PEOPLE", "Great Patriots"), and a personal guarantee in place of policy. Nothing is dehumanized, no enemy is identified, and nothing urges action beyond voting, so the post gives no basis for a danger concern. The Big Five reading is thin because the template does the talking. Assertiveness (extraversion) shows in the imperative, and a low-modesty facet shows in the assumption that his endorsement settles the question.

## What can be checked

The post makes no factual claims beyond who he endorses, and an endorsement isn't something to grade true or false. One line from the companion Darline Graham post, which calls her the sister of "the Late, Great Lindsey Graham", is context for this slate, but this post doesn't assert it and it isn't graded here. The template leaves no room for spontaneous language, so the post can't be used as a cognitive sample. Placed in a longitudinal series, it is an example of the scheduled endorsement baseline, with no deviation from it.

## Authorship Analysis

**Aide-Written** (score: 12%)

### Indicators

- Posted 3:28 PM Eastern, business hours on the eve of Election Day
- Signature line in the third person: "President DONALD J. TRUMP"
- Formatted list with en-dash bullets and correct district codes (SC-01 through SC-07, skipping the Democratic-held SC-06)
- Stock closing formula: "Complete and Total Endorsement — They will never let you down!"
- Link to the RNC Swamp the Vote landing page and a branded TEAM TRUMP graphic

## Psychological Profile

### Traits

**Big Five:**
- Extraversion: 65%
- Agreeableness: 45%
- Conscientiousness: 50%
- Neuroticism: 15%
- Openness: 30%

Strongest facet: assertiveness

**Motives:**
- Agency: 65%
- Communion: 35%

Primary drive: power

### Narrative

- **Role:** kingmaker / patron whose endorsement confers legitimacy
- **Arc:** neutral
- **Contrasting:** None named in this post

**Identity Claims:**
- His endorsement is a guarantee of reliability ("They will never let you down!")

### State

**Grandiose State**

**Trigger:** Maintenance (Scheduled get-out-the-vote run on the eve of the November 3, 2026 midterms)

Sentiment: +0.60

### Clinical

**Malignant Narcissism:**
- Narcissistic: 25%
- Antisocial: 0%
- Paranoid: 0%
- Sadism: 0%

**Defense Mechanisms:**
- idealization (immature)

**Cognitive Complexity:**
- Complexity: 20%

**Parasocial Techniques:**
- Direct address to a collective ("TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA")
- Personal guarantee of others' conduct ("They will never let you down!")

## Tags

- midterm endorsements (100%)
- South Carolina (90%)
- get out the vote (90%)
- staff template (80%)
- King (50%)

## That day

_From trump.fm's machine-generated digest of the day, not his words._

**After a judge drops the Alaska ballot suit, Trump takes the “FAKE Dan Sullivan” fraud charge to voters**

On the eve of the midterms, his account ran like a campaign phone bank. It went state by state, from New York in the morning to Texas at dinnertime, pushing out near-identical endorsements of 89 Republican candidates. Each batch was timed to a phone rally with that state's voters, and almost none of it reads as his own writing. When his own voice did come through, it was mostly about Alaska. He called a second man named Dan Sullivan on the Senate ballot a Democratic fraud, claimed lawyers were hiding him, demanded that the Democratic candidate be charged, and told the Republican senator to run “under protest,” all on the day a federal judge threw out the administration's lawsuit over those ballots. Two endorsements also carried personal attacks: one turned New York's race for attorney general into a complaint about the “witch hunt” against him, and another gave a South Carolina Democrat a crude anti-transgender nickname.

Full digest for 2026-11-02: https://trump.fm/date/2026-11-02/analysis

## Citation

- APA: Trump, D. J. (2026, November 2). TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GET OUT... [Social media post]. Truth Social. trump.fm. https://trump.fm/post/ts_117548731761734326
- MLA: Trump, Donald J. "TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GET OUT AND VOTE..." Truth Social, 2 Nov. 2026. trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117548731761734326. Accessed 3 Nov. 2026.
- Chicago: Donald J. Trump, "TO THE GREAT PEOPLE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GET OUT AND VOTE...," Truth Social, November 2, 2026, archived at trump.fm, https://trump.fm/post/ts_117548731761734326.

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