South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson won the Republican nomination for governor in Tuesday’s runoff election. He defeated Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette with about 65 percent of the vote.
Decision Desk HQ called the race at 7:22 p.m. ET on June 23. Wilson advanced from the June 9 primary alongside Evette after neither reached the 50 percent threshold.
President Donald Trump initially endorsed Evette but issued a dual endorsement of both candidates on Truth Social four days before the runoff. He wrote that both were “MAGA and America First all the way” and that “with either one you can’t go wrong.”
Wilson, 52, has served as attorney general for 15 years and is the son of Rep. Joe Wilson. He will face state Rep. Jermaine Johnson, the Democratic nominee, in November in the deeply conservative state.
