Candidates backed by former President Donald J. Trump had a near-perfect night in the South Carolina, Nevada, and North Dakota primaries Tuesday evening as 12 candidates secured their nominations, while only one lost her race. Trump’s endorsement record now stands at 129-8 in Republican primaries this midterm election cycle.
South Carolina:
State Rep. Russell Fry thumped incumbent Rep. Tom Rice in the primary race for South Carolina’s Seventh Congressional District. Rice joined nine other House Republicans in voting for Trump’s impeachment for “incitement of insurrection,” which led to the South Carolina Republican Party censuring him, Breitbart News previously reported.
Trump slammed Rice in his endorsement of Fry, dubbing him “the coward who abandoned his constituents by caving to Nancy Pelosi and the Radical Left, and who actually voted against me on Impeachment Hoax #2.” He added the representative “must be thrown out of office ASAP — and we have just the man to do it.”
House of Representatives candidate Russell Fry waves to a crowd during a rally with former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Florence Regional Airport on March 12, 2022, in Florence, South Carolina. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
Trump said Fry is “a leading fighter on Election Integrity, is pro-Life, pro-God, pro-Gun and, very importantly, pro-LOW Taxes,” and he crowned him as an “America First Champion.”
The Republican nominee for the Seventh Congressional District appeared on Breitbart News Saturday this past weekend and minced no words when speaking of his opponent.
“When you want conservative fighters in the ring, people who stand up for the America First agenda, right here in South Carolina, look no further than the Russell Fry campaign,” Fry said. “People are fed up with Congressman Tom Rice, and he has been, you know, I think the impeachment vote really showed us who he was, and quite frankly, exposed a big frustration with him in general, which is where has he been on some of these issues that matter to the American people. And we see this continued: leftward lurch.”
Fry will run in the general election against Democrat nominee Daryl Scott.
The Trump-backed former state Rep. Katie Arrington lost her race to incumbent Rep. Nancy Mace in the First Congressional District. Mace, who earned former Gov. and United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley’s (R) endorsement in the race, has been critical of Trump. Over the weekend, the 45th president laid into the sitting representative while endorsing Arrington. Mace will face off against Democrat nominee Annie Andrews in the general election.
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina speaks to reporters at her election night event after defeating former state Rep. Katie Arrington in the 1st District primary on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, in Mount Pleasant, SC. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)
Per the AP election results compiled by the New York Times, the remaining seven candidates who received Trump endorsements and earned their respective nominations Tuesday include:
- Sen. Tim Scott (R) – Nominee for U.S. Senate
- Gov. Henry McMaster (R) – Nominee for Governor
- Attorney General Alan Wilson (R) – Nominee for Attorney General
- Rep Joe Wilson (R) – Nominee for the Second Congressional District
- Rep. Jeff Duncan (R)– Nominee for Third Congressional District
- Rep. William Timmons (R) – Nominee for the Fourth Congressional District
- Rep. Ralph Norman (R)– Nominee for the Fifth Congressional District
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