LISA MASCARO and MEG KINNARD.

A chief architect of Project 2025 is launching a Republican primary challenge to Sen. Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. Attorney Paul Dans joins a crowded field that will test the loyalties of President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement in next year’s midterm election. Dans tells The Associated Press the Trump administration’s federal workforce reductions and cuts to federal programs have been what he hoped for in drafting Project 2025. But Dans says there’s “more work to do,” particularly in the Senate. Dans is set to formally announce his campaign Wednesday in Charleston. Trump endorsed Graham early on. A senior adviser to Graham predicts Dans’ campaign will “end prematurely.”