In May 2010, the party nominated Friends of the Earth regional coordinator Tom Clements to run for US Senate against incumbent Republican Jim DeMint and Democrat Alvin Greene.
A Winthrop University poll conducted between October 5 and 10 with 741 likely South Carolina voters found Clements running second with 12.2% of the vote against 11.2% for Democrat Alvin Greene and 58.3% for incumbent Jim DeMint.
[4][5] Clements campaigned around the state from June through November 1, appearing at NAACP forums, stump meetings, editorial conferences and other public events.
The campaign financed TV and radio advertisements in the Columbia, Charleston and Pee Dee regions during the two weeks prior to the election.
Against local prosecutor Trey Gowdy and an array of right wing minor parties C. Faye Walter's vote in the 4th Congressional District was 1.18%.