South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace has lost her bid to become her home state’s next governor, finishing a lowly fifth in Tuesday’s primary and saying her call for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files cost her MAGA support.
The Palmetto State’s current lieutenant-governor, Pamela Evette, who was belatedly endorsed by President Donald Trump, and its attorney general, Alan Wilson, advance to the run-off ahead of November’s election, picking up 28.9 percent and 26.2 percent of the vote respectively. Mace won just 12.1 percent.