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South Carolina Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Alan Wilson, with support from U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), speaks to a crowd in Columbia, S.C., on June 22, 2026. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images).
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson won the Republican runoff for the state’s governor on June 23.
Wilson defeated Pamela Evette, the state’s lieutenant governor. Wilson will face Democratic state Rep. Jermaine Johnson in the general election on Nov. 3. Democrats have not won the South Carolina governorship since 1998.
Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
