{"id":38867,"date":"2026-06-10T09:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/38867\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T09:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T09:28:13","slug":"navy-admiral-fired-by-hegseth-advances-to-runoff-to-replace-mace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/38867\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Admiral Fired by Hegseth Advances to Runoff to Replace Mace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Nancy Lacore, a former Navy admiral who was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/22\/us\/politics\/defense-intelligence-agency-chief-fired.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a>, advanced to a Democratic primary runoff for the First Congressional District of South Carolina, according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Also advancing to a runoff against Ms. Lacore is Mac Deford, a Coast Guard veteran who was previously the general counsel for the town of Hilton Head Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Whoever wins the runoff on June 23 will face a daunting task in the fall: flipping a seat currently held by a Republican, Representative Nancy Mace, who ran unsuccessfully for governor instead of seeking re-election. The coastal district was redrawn in 2021 to be more reliably Republican. Ms. Mace won re-election by double digits in each of her past two elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">But Ms. Lacore has a higher-than-average profile for a political newcomer. Last August, she was fired by Mr. Hegseth after 35 years in the Navy. She has said she was given no cause for the firing, which came at a time when Mr. Hegseth was removing military officials who had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/22\/us\/politics\/defense-intelligence-agency-chief-fired.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">delivered intelligence assessments that angered President Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">From the start of her campaign, Ms. Lacore has proved to be a prolific fund-raiser. She raised $500,000 in her first two weeks as a candidate and raised more than $1.4 million through late May, according to federal campaign finance records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Ms. Lacore is also one of 12 House candidates nationwide this cycle who are backed by the Bench, a group led by longtime Democratic strategists that recruits and advises candidates in both traditional battleground districts and contests that are seen as harder to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nancy Lacore, a former Navy admiral who was fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, advanced to a Democratic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[286,8,1072,13085,22448,14407,798,14408,9,3755,796,2039,7],"class_list":["post-38867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-elections","tag-headlines","tag-hegseth","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-lacore","tag-mace","tag-midterm-elections-2026","tag-nancy","tag-news","tag-pete","tag-primaries-and-caucuses","tag-south-carolina","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116725108017017717","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}