Alan Wilson, the old Gop -Procurer -General of South Carolina, ready to enter the 2026 race

Chapin, SC – Chapin, SC (AP) – –

Alan Wilson, the four-hour Republican attorney-General of South Carolina, will enter the open gubernatorial race of the state in 2026 and set up a primary competition that is probably a multi-candidate competition for president Donald Trump’s recommendation.

For a long time, Wilson will officially launch his campaign during an event on Monday, according to a person familiar with Wilson’s political plans that was not authorized to speak about them publicly. The Associated Press watched an invitation that was broadcast this week and invited backers for an “Alan Wilson for South Carolina Campaign Rally.”

Official submission of the State of 2026 elections only open in March, but several other Republicans already have to run in the direction of running. That includes rep. Nancy Mace, that the AP told earlier this year She is considering a run seriously, as well as Lt. Gov. Pam Evette, who made similar explanations.

All three of the potential Republican Hopeful have supported Trump in his own campaigns, and although the role of Trump still has to be known in 2026 races, it could be waving in the state where he has remained popular since his 2016 South Carolina Gop victory has helped him as the nominated of the party. In 2018 Trump helped Gov. Henry McMaster Secure A primary drain profit That set him on his way to becoming the longest serving governor of South Carolina.

As the best public prosecutor of South Carolina, Wilson has taken action to support Trump’s political and personal movements. In 2020 he was signed about a letter that dismissed accusation procedures against Trump as “fundamentally defective as a matter of constitutional law.” Wilson traveled to New York last year To support Trump While he ended up in a Hush money store.

In recent decades, Republicans have dominated the selected functions of South Carolina, including Governor, which means that part of the most intense political competition has taken place in GOP presections. With McMaster-in function since the departure of Nikki Haley 2017 to serve as ambassador to Trump’s United Nations-Aations, the Republican Primary of next year will be intense.

Just like his predecessor in the office of the attorney general, MCMaster, Wilson is part of dozens of lawsuits against democratic presidents, whereby the Biden administration is being charged for issues such as vaccine mandates and environmental regulations.

Wilson, who served three times as chairman of the Republican Attornneys General Association, has led other national efforts, including quarrels Top prosecutors in all 50 states To encourage congress to make legislation to watch against the use of artificial intelligence in operating children through pornography. Moreover, he has led his Gop colleagues in printing Jam the signals from mobile phones smuggled to prisoners.

At state level he defended The restrictive abortion law of South Carolina – who forbids practice about six weeks after conception – against constitutional challenges. Wilson has withdrawn from a broad, perennial State ethics In legislators, including the then speaker Bobby Harrell, because of a connection with a political consultant entangled in the case.

Wilson stood in the national spotlights in 2023, as his office Alex Murdaaugh continuedThe crashed lawyer who currently serves two prison sentences for the murders of his wife and son in the rural house of the family on 2021. The attention for the six-week test Wrervelde Wervlelde in cult-like status, with daily events streamed live by a number of points of sale, and real crime inpanners who regularly give updates to their followers of the surroundings of the surroundings near a courthouse in small cities in the low country of South Carolina.

Rep. Joe Wilson, an old congress member of South Carolina, Wilson, his wife and their two children live in Lexington, South Carolina. For the first time chosen attorney -general in 2010, he served in the Army National Guard for almost three decades, with the current rank of Colonel.

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