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South Carolina attorney general and Army National Guard colonel

Alan Wilson's campaign says he joined the South Carolina National Guard after college, has served since 1996, and deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom. It says he is the state's attorney general and is running for governor.

• He highlights child-predator prosecutions, a larger Internet Crimes Against Children task force, and the state's human-trafficking task force.
• He says he has gone to court against policies of the Obama and Biden administrations, including what he calls a transgender agenda.
• He says he backs President Trump on immigration enforcement and election integrity.

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State representative running for governor

Jermaine Johnson's campaign says he is a state representative who has passed bills on the senior sales tax, a closed bridge, and broadband. The site also introduces Sam Skardon as his lieutenant-governor running mate.

• He says he would expand the number of families who owe no income tax rather than eliminate the tax, because he says ending it would mainly help the wealthiest, and he says he would work with cities to cut property taxes.
• He says he would let cities fix roads with transportation-department money, raise law-enforcement pay, and fund more rural hospitals and trade schools.
• He says he would audit public education, protect reproductive decisions for patients and doctors, and legalize medical marijuana while putting recreational use to a statewide vote.

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Medical director running for governor

Michael Addison's campaign calls him a medical director who says he has cared for patients in South Carolina, and a certified inspector and property-damage analyst. It also describes him as a community organizer working on foreclosure prevention, job training, and help for people without housing.

• He says the state needs a governor who combines health-care knowledge with environmental accountability.
• He says prosperity has to start with people who are most vulnerable, including help with jobs and housing distress.

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Green Party candidate for governor and former Marine

Walid Hakim's campaign says his family moved to South Carolina in 1985, that he attended Lexington High School and Newberry College, and that he left college to enlist in the Marine Corps after Iraq invaded Kuwait. It says he has worked as a police officer, restaurant owner, and in other jobs.

• His listed platform objectives are a 100-year plan, education reform, law-and-order reform, and land reform.
• The site says the Green Party campaign is meant to widen the debate in a state long dominated by one party.

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U.S. senator

Darline Graham's campaign says she was appointed to the Senate by Governor Henry McMaster after her brother, Senator Lindsey Graham, died. It says she spent nearly 30 years in state vocational rehabilitation and led the Commission for the Blind.

• She says she would make the Trump tax cuts permanent, cut waste and fraud, and back workforce training, the skilled trades, and work requirements for able-bodied adults.
• She says she supports finishing a border wall, ending catch-and-release, and opposing amnesty and taxpayer-funded benefits for people here illegally.
• She says she opposes taxpayer funding of abortion, supports voter identification and current voter rolls, and opposes gun registries and red-flag confiscation.

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Pediatrician running for U.S. Senate

Annie Andrews's campaign says she is a pediatrician and mother who has cared for South Carolina children for nearly twenty years, from newborns to teenagers. She says she is not a career politician.

• She says families are struggling with grocery prices, child care, and the cost of health care, and her platform treats health care as a right.
• Her listed plans include tackling debt and congressional perks, cutting taxes, lowering premiums, protecting rural hospitals, and reversing Medicaid cuts.
• The platform also lists strong schools and affordable child care, reproductive freedom, political corruption, and an end to gun violence.

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Educator, author, and Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate

Kasie Whitener's campaign describes her as a community leader, author, educator, and radio personality. She says she would be an independent vote in the Senate rather than a party operative.

• She says she would simplify the tax code, return to actual budgets, and cut federal spending across agencies.
• She says she would separate health insurance from employment and remove barriers that keep people from starting medical practices.
• She says she wants a balanced-budget amendment, no new foreign wars, and no new federal abortion laws or new limits on the Second Amendment.

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Prosecutor running for attorney general

David Stumbo's campaign calls him a career criminal prosecutor and the upstate's top prosecutor. He says he is running to be attorney general.

• He says he would defend the Constitution, religious liberty, parental rights, and what he calls the sanctity of life of the unborn.
• He says he has prosecuted people in the country illegally, murderers, rapists, domestic abusers, and drug dealers, and that he would keep doing that work on the first day in office.
• He says he supports law enforcement, health-care freedom, lower taxes, and a more transparent government.

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Lawyer running for attorney general

Richard Hricik's campaign says he has spent 30 years fighting in court for working people. He says he is a Democrat and that he is not taking campaign donations.

• He says the attorney general should answer to the public and the rule of law, not to donors, parties, or special interests.
• He says he would go after violent crime and also corporations, insurers, and officials he says put profit or power above people.
• He names flock cameras, data centers, and polluters as targets, along with consumer fraud and corruption.

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Candidate for South Carolina secretary of state.

His campaign says South Carolina businesses are growing and that the secretary of state's office has made filings easier. He asks voters to share that record as the campaign continues.

• He says Business One Stop has made it easier for businesses to expand in the state.
• He credits the High Growth Small Business Job Creation Act with drawing angel investment into early-stage, high-growth companies.
• He says oversight of charities is part of why the state ranks in the top five nationally for charitable giving.

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Democratic nominee for secretary of state

Jason Belton's campaign calls him the 2026 Democratic nominee for secretary of state. It describes him as a servant leader who says government should work for every family, business, and community.

• The site says the campaign takes no corporate PAC money.
• It says contributions pay for community events and voter outreach in every South Carolina county.

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Attorney, small-business owner, and local Republican official running for Congress.

Her campaign says she is a wife, mother, attorney, small-business owner, girls' sports coach, and lifelong Lowcountry resident who has held local elected office. She says that in office she has balanced budgets, stood with law enforcement, and defended the Constitution.

• She says she would put the Lowcountry first, stand with law enforcement, and secure the border against fentanyl and people she calls criminal illegal aliens.
• She says she would fight wasteful spending, balance the budget, and defend the Constitution, including free speech, religious liberty, and the Second Amendment.
• She says she would protect the unborn, keep men out of women's sports, lower family costs, and press for veterans' health care, benefits, jobs, and housing with less red tape.

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Retired Navy vice admiral and Democrat running for Congress.

Her campaign says she served 35 years in the Navy, from helicopter pilot to three-star admiral and chief of Navy Reserve, leading more than 60,000 sailors. She says she is running to bring common-sense leadership and integrity to Washington for the Lowcountry.

• She says she would lower housing, health-care, child-care, and tariff-driven costs, restore enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, and reverse Medicaid cuts.
• She says the border should be secure and immigration cases decided faster, and that ICE officers should follow due process, wear body cameras, and show their faces.
• She says she would write women's reproductive freedom into law, ban offshore drilling on the East Coast, and overturn Citizens United and congressional stock trading.

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U.S. representative who chairs the Armed Services Readiness Subcommittee.

His campaign says he is a veteran leader in Congress who serves on Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, and Education and the Workforce, and as an assistant majority whip. He says he is committed to conservative values and works to enact the Trump agenda.

• He says he promotes a strong national defense and peace through strength.
• He says he is working to create jobs and to limit the size and scope of the federal government.
• He says his commitments also cover the economy and veterans' services.

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Air Force reservist and attorney running for Congress.

His campaign says he is from Aiken County, served in the Air Force Reserve in transportation logistics, ran track at the University of South Carolina, and earned a law degree from Southern University. It says he spent part of his teenage years in foster care and is 25.

• He says communities thrive when young people have real options, and that safer communities come from opportunity.
• He says he would expand workforce training, apprenticeships, and technical education, and strengthen small-town economies.
• He says he would keep opportunity in South Carolina through small-business growth and local economic development.

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Candidate who says she has worn the uniform in combat.

Her platform says she has worn the uniform in combat and volunteers to support local veterans. She says she is a Christian who believes life is made in the image of God, and that she faced miscarriages and bed rest while pregnant with her son.

• She says she would build the wall, stop illegal immigration and drugs, and replace catch-and-release with what she calls stop-and-deport.
• She says she would fight wasteful spending and demand accountability for tax dollars, and she would defend the sanctity of life.
• She says veterans should receive the honor, dignity, and care the country promised them.

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Counselor and small-business owner running for Congress.

Her campaign says she and her husband moved to Clemson in 2002, where she has worked as a licensed professional counselor, including in private practice, home health, hospice, and at Clemson University. She says the governor appointed her to a regional mental health board in 2024.

• She says there is no excuse for a lapse in health-insurance funding, for what she calls the reckless brutality of masked, untrained ICE agents, or for tariffs she says have cost households more than a thousand dollars.
• She also says there is no excuse for delays releasing the Epstein files or for sabotage of close alliances.
• She says she would advocate for vulnerable people, protect the Upstate's natural beauty, and help families and small businesses thrive.

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U.S. representative who says he entered Congress to bring real reform.

His official biography says he is a former prosecutor and small-business owner who served as a state senator, where he fought for accountability and transparency. He is a JAG officer and captain in the South Carolina Air National Guard.

• He says he ran for office to make a difference and entered Congress in 2019 to bring real reform to Washington.
• He says he represents Upstate residents on the Financial Services Committee, including its Digital Assets Subcommittee.
• He says he chairs the Oversight Subcommittee on Military and Foreign Affairs and serves on the Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee.

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Civil-rights advocate running for Congress.

Her campaign says she was born and raised in Spartanburg, in a family that has lived there for more than two centuries, and that she holds degrees in journalism and communications and a master's in political science from Howard University. She says she has worked as a legislative page, a Clyburn Fellow, and a lobbyist on reproductive health, public education, elections, guns, and criminal justice.

• She says her Upstate First agenda would expand health care, build affordable homes, manage rapid growth, invest in small businesses, and stop data centers from coming into local communities.
• She says she would fight for stronger schools, fair wages, safer communities, the power of every vote, and veterans.
• She says she is committed to a more affordable and inclusive future for Greenville and Spartanburg.

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State senator, financial advisor, and business owner running for Congress.

His campaign says he is a husband and father of five who represents York County in the South Carolina Senate and works as a financial advisor. He says he is running because Washington is broken and he will fight for President Trump and an America First agenda.

• He says he has led fights to cut taxes, block wasteful spending, and shrink the power of unelected bureaucrats, including a ban on secret budget spending and more than $2 billion in tax cuts.
• He says he championed constitutional carry, medical freedom during COVID, school choice, and the toughest fake-meat rules in the nation to protect agriculture.
• He says he blocked a legislative pay raise in court, secured road funding for York County, and backed property-tax exemptions for veterans.

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Campaign manager and candidate who says she puts people over party.

Her campaign says she and her husband are raising children and that she has long supported nonpartisan advocacy and independent voters. She says that in 2022 she began managing campaigns and that in 2024 she helped seven candidates win in South Carolina.

• She says voters she met are unhappy with divisive politics, high costs, unreliable health care, attacks on public education, and congressional gridlock.
• She says she will fight for practical solutions through conversation and collaboration, and that she will not bend her values to party or special interests.
• She says she advocates legislation to make it easier for independents to vote and run for office.

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Candidate who says he is running as a common-sense conservative.

His campaign page says he is running for the U.S. House in South Carolina's 6th District as a common-sense conservative. The page does not add a longer biography.

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U.S. representative for South Carolina's 6th District since 1993.

His official biography says he grew up in Sumter as the son of a minister and a beautician, graduated from South Carolina State, and taught school in Charleston before becoming the first Black advisor to a South Carolina governor and later Human Affairs commissioner. He is a former House majority whip and now ranking member of an Appropriations subcommittee.

• He says his 10-20-30 formula sends at least 10 percent of certain funds to communities where 20 percent or more of people have lived in poverty for 30 years.
• He points to his Rural Energy Savings Program, which lets rural electric cooperatives lend for home energy efficiency, and to a broadband bill funded in the 2021 infrastructure law.
• His biography says he has worked to make America's greatness accessible and affordable, including preserving historic buildings at historically Black colleges and creating heritage corridors and parks.

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U.S. representative for South Carolina's 7th District.

Russell Fry's office says he represents the Grand Strand and Pee Dee. He put himself through the University of South Carolina and the Charleston School of Law, practiced law along the Grand Strand for more than a decade, and served seven years in the South Carolina House, including as chief majority whip.

• He says that as a state legislator he fought for lower taxes, less government, and pro-Second Amendment legislation.
• He says government decisions fall hardest on families living paycheck to paycheck, and that he wants to leave the country better than he found it.

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Retired Navy command master chief and small-business owner running for Congress.

His campaign says he is a husband, father, career Navy veteran, and small-business owner running for the 7th District. He says the same duty that led him to serve now leads him to run.

• He says he would work to pass a war-powers measure on the war in Iran and to end tariffs he says are making life more expensive for farmers and small businesses.
• He says he would remove the Social Security income cap to extend solvency, and he names veterans bills he would push, including the Major Richard Star Act.
• He says he would introduce an All American Healthcare Act for low-cost optional insurance and a plan to bring federal spending under control without adding to the debt.

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