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Trump endorses both GOP runoff candidates in South Carolina
Key takeaways
- Trump initially put his full support behind the Palmetto State s Lt.
- Evette finished first in the early June primary election with 29 percent of the vote, but it was not enough to help her avoid a runoff with longtime state Attorney General Alan Wilson, who came in a close second.
- Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Friday that he was hoping those two would advance and announced that he would now also support Wilson for the nomination.
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Trump initially put his full support behind the Palmetto State s Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette for the GOP nomination, hailing her less than a month ago as someone who had been with him from the very beginning and never wavered.
Evette finished first in the early June primary election with 29 percent of the vote, but it was not enough to help her avoid a runoff with longtime state Attorney General Alan Wilson, who came in a close second.
Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Friday that he was hoping those two would advance and announced that he would now also support Wilson for the nomination.
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