Lieutenant governor and attorney general advance but result signals decisive defeat for controversial Nancy Mace<\/p>\n
Donald Trump-backed Pamela Evette, South Carolina\u2019s lieutenant governor and Alan Wilson, the state\u2019s attorney general, have advanced to a runoff in a competitive race to represent the Republican party in South Carolina\u2019s gubernatorial election.<\/p>\n
The winner of the Republican primary is favored to win the closely watched general election, given South Carolina\u2019s conservative tilt, although Democrats are hoping to ride a wave of progressive enthusiasm to make political gains across the ticket.<\/p>\n
Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lieutenant governor and attorney general advance but result signals decisive defeat for controversial Nancy Mace Donald Trump-backed Pamela Evette, South Carolina\u2019s lieutenant governor and Alan Wilson, the state\u2019s attorney general, have advanced to a runoff in a competitive race to represent the Republican party in South Carolina\u2019s gubernatorial election. The winner of the Republican primary … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}