Nancy Mace Falls Short, Finishes Fifth In South Carolina GOP Primary
Rep. Nancy Mace finished fifth in the South Carolina GOP governor primary and is backing Attorney General Alan Wilson in the June 23 runoff against Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette.
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Overview
Rep. Nancy Mace finished a distant fifth in the South Carolina Republican primary for governor with 12.1 percent of the vote.
Her defeat ends her gubernatorial bid and, she wrote on social media, she is 'headed back to the private sector' and will be out of public office come January.
Mace is backing Attorney General Alan Wilson in the runoff despite having accused him last year of protecting child sex abuse defendants.
She received 14.8 percent of the vote in her Charleston home county.
Attorney General Alan Wilson and Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette will advance to a June 23 runoff to decide the Republican nominee.
Analysis
Center-leaning sources frame Mace as an erratic, fading politician by foregrounding controversies, broken ties with Trump, and campaign weakness. Editorial choices — loaded descriptors like 'roiling' and 'whipsaw,' selective emphasis on her nativity comment, fundraising woes, and strategic placement of critical details — create a cumulative narrative of instability and decline.