{"id":1530,"date":"2026-06-10T06:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2026-06-10T06:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:12:15","slug":"trump-endorsed-evette-to-face-wilson-in-south-carolina-republican-gubernatorial-runoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"Trump-endorsed Evette to face Wilson in South Carolina Republican gubernatorial runoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Republicans Pamela Evette and Alan \u200cWilson advanced to a runoff in South Carolina&#8217;s tightly contested gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, U.S. media projected.<\/div><div>Evette will face Wilson in a June 23 runoff after no candidate topped 50%.<\/div><div>With 63% of the votes counted, Evette was \u200bleading the pack of Republican candidates. She had secured the endorsement of President Donald Trump. \u200bThe result was a blow to U.S. Representative Nancy Mace, who trailed \u2060Evette and Wilson.<\/div><div>The race will decide a successor to term-limited Republican Governor Henry McMaster, with the \u200bRepublican nominee chosen in the runoff favored to win the governorship in November.<\/div><div>On the Democratic side, \u200bstate Representative Jermaine Johnson was projected as the winner of the party&#8217;s three-way primary.<\/div><h2>A TEST OF TRUMP&#8217;S CLOUT<\/h2><div>The crowded Republican primary was a test of Trump&#8217;s endorsement after voters in Iowa last week rejected his choice for governor, \u200bending a streak in which Trump ousted Republican Senators John Cornyn, Bill Cassidy and Representative \u200bThomas Massie in May primaries.<\/div><div>Trump had endorsed South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette over Attorney General Alan Wilson and \u200cU.S. \u2060Representatives Nancy Mace and Ralph Norman. Businessman Rom Reddy and State Senator Josh Kimbrell, who withdrew from the race last week, were also on the ballot.<\/div><div>Trump endorsed Evette on May 29, saying she stood with him &#8220;from the very beginning.&#8221;<\/div><div>&#8220;She never wavered, never let me down, and was the only \u200bSouth Carolina Gubernatorial Candidate \u200bto Endorse me as \u2060soon as I launched my 2024 Presidential Campaign,&#8221; the president wrote on Truth Social.<\/div><div>Evette also led the field in fundraising with a $3.5 million haul. \u200bShe loaned her campaign an additional $1 million, according to her most recent \u200bfinancial disclosure.<\/div><div>Wilson \u2060raised $3.2 million, Mace $2.5 million and Norman $1.8 million. Norman loaned his campaign nearly $3.8 million.<\/div><div>Reddy, whose campaign has accepted no donations or endorsements, pumped nearly $6 million of his wealth into his candidacy.<\/div><div>Trump won South Carolina by \u2060nearly \u200b18 percentage points in 2024. But a handful of Republicans \u200bin the state Senate defied Trump last month, voting against an effort to redraw the state&#8217;s congressional map to oust \u200bits lone Democrat, Representative Jim Clyburn.<\/div><div><address><div><div><noscript>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" alt=\"Nolan D. McCaskill\" class=\"wp-image-53\" src=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/2f8f06da30579239d88d81ec78680000.avif\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/noscript><\/div><div>Nolan D. 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