GOP Rep. Ralph Norman Running for Governor of South Carolina

Norman is set to announce his run at an event in South Carolina on July 27.

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) speaks to reporters about GOP meeting on reconciliation bill on Capitol Hill in Washington on May 15, 2025. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) is running for governor of South Carolina.

Norman changed the title of his personal page on X to “Ralph Norman for Governor.”

Norman is set to announce his run in South Carolina on July 27. It is being advertised as an event “to hear some exciting news about the future of South Carolina!”

Norman has been in Congress since June 2017 and previously served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2005 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2017.

In Congress, Norman is a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which has presented challenges to congressional GOP leadership on issues such as the One Big Beautiful Bill. Despite their desire for deeper spending cuts, Freedom Caucus members eventually voted in favor of the bill.

“The American people elected President [Donald] Trump to get this country back on track, and he was clear about the priorities he’d fight for. I worked hard to make this bill as strong and fiscally responsible as possible, but at the end of the day, I’m standing with the president and the voters who sent him to the White House to get this done,” Norman said in a July 3 statement.

“The House version of the One Big Beautiful Bill rolled back Biden’s Green New Scam and put strict limits on welfare abuse and illegal immigration. While the Senate fell short of what I had hoped for, I made a judgment call: deliver immediate tax relief now and keep fighting for the rest.”

Norman supported the $9 billion rescissions bill, which Trump signed into law on July 24.

“Washington doesn’t have a revenue problem. It has a spending addiction,” he said in a June statement.

“For too long, taxpayer dollars have been misused to prop up anti-American causes, fund radical globalist institutions, and expand bloated bureaucracies. This legislation draws a firm line in the sand: no more blank checks for the left’s ideological experiments.”

While Norman supports Trump, he initially supported former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s 2024 presidential campaign. At her campaign launch in February 2023, Norman said Haley is “America’s version of Margaret Thatcher,” a reference to the first female prime minister of Great Britain, a conservative who was nicknamed the “Iron Lady” against tyranny.

After Haley dropped out of the race, Norman endorsed Trump.