Posts on Wednesday, June 10, 2026

South Carolina’s Lt. Governor Pamela Evette and Attorney General Alan Wilson are moving on to the Republican gubernatorial runoff on June 23. They are the two top vote-getters in South Carolina’s Republican primary for governor. The Trump magic did the trick. President Donald Trump’s endorsement put Wilson at the top — but not by much. Evette was gaining 29% of the vote with 77% reporting, and Wilson was just behind her at 26%. Other candidates were much farther behind, with U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman and businessman Rom Reddy at 17% and 15%, and U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace trailing at 11%. Former S.C. State Senator Katrina Shealy said on WIS-TV

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner’s ex-political director argued that her former boss “shouldn’t be a U.S. senator,” revealing that she quit her job after becoming “disturbed” by what she had learned about him and claiming that she was offered hush money in a new bombshell exposé. Genevieve McDonald, a former Maine state representative who said she joined Platner’s campaign because she believed he genuinely wanted to fight for the working class, released a damning op-ed in the Washington Post on Monday evening, a day before the state’s Democrat primary. “I know firsthand why Graham Platner shouldn’t be a U.S. senator,”