Lindsey Graham confident he will keep Senate seat despite polling behind Jaime Harrison

The senator is trailing his challenger by two points in the latest polling.

Senator Lindsey Graham said he is "more confident than ever of victory", despite trialing in the polls.

Mr Graham is polling two points below his Democratic party rival, Jaime Harrison. While that puts the race in what is essentially a dead heat, it does not put either man in a position to express confidence in their chances.

The South Carolina senator shared a video along with his proclamation of confidence in which he called for smaller government, appealing to individualist tropes among his Republican supporters. He claimed his campaign was about promoting "your destiny, not the government's destiny for you."

Mr Graham sponsored 33 bills during the 2019-2020 session of Congress. The senator is seeking his fourth term.

Mr Graham has had a difficult time fending off Mr Harrison's campaign; the Democrat managed to raise more than $100m for his campaign. Mr Graham has only raised about $67m.

In the past, the senator has managed to beat his challengers by double-digit margins, but Mr Harrison has proven a far more capable challenger.

“This is the biggest challenge that I have ever faced,” Mr Graham said.

Mr Graham is struggling due in part to his role in the US Supreme Court nomination hearings of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. The televised confirmation hearings kept him in the spotlight for weeks, with critics constantly attacking him for his role in confirming a Supreme Court Justice only weeks before the 2020 US election.

Mr Graham even used his temporary spotlight to appeal to complain about Mr Harrison's fundraising.

"To my good friend Sen. [Sheldon] Whitehouse. Me and you are going to come closer and closer about regulating money, because I don't know what's going on out there, but there's a lot of money being raised in this campaign. I'd like to know where the hell some of it is coming from," Mr Graham said during Ms Barrett's hearing.