South Carolina Gubernatorial Primary
The lieutenant governor of South Carolina, Pamela Evette, who received an endorsement from Donald Trump, and State Attorney General Alan Wilson have advanced to a runoff election in the Republican gubernatorial primary. Wilson was the vice-chair of the Republican Attorneys General Association, whose fund-raising group, in the run-up to the January 6th attack, urged “patriots” to march on Congress and demand that it overturn the 2020 election results. He also became a national figure for his work as a prosecutor in the case against Alex Murdaugh—the high-profile South Carolina attorney accused of killing his wife and son—whose conviction was recently overturned. Nancy Mace, a U.S. representative, finished far behind the two leading Republican candidates. Mace had become a major figure in the MAGA wing of the Republican Party, but she broke with President Trump by supporting the release of the Epstein files. Ralph Norman, a U.S. representative from South Carolina, and Rom Reddy, a businessman, also failed to advance.
On the Democratic side, Jermaine Johnson, a state representative and a former professional basketball player, has won the gubernatorial primary, beating out William Mullins McLeod, Jr., a personal-injury lawyer from Charleston, and Billy Webster, a businessman from Greenville who worked in the Clinton Administration.
