Alan Wilson won the Republican gubernatorial runoff in South Carolina, with early returns and CBS News projections showing him ahead by about 30 points.President Donald Trump had initially endorsed Pamela Evette and praised both candidates on Truth Social before extending an endorsement to Alan Wilson as polls shifted.Wilson, the state's longest-serving attorney general and a colonel in the South Carolina Army National Guard, will face Democratic state representative Jermaine Johnson in November as Republicans seek to hold the governorship.Pamela Evette had led the initial primary by less than 3 points, but Wilson consolidated endorsements from Senator
Tim Scott, Senator
Ted Cruz and
Nancy Mace and surged in the runoff returns.