{"id":44644,"date":"2026-06-24T06:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/44644\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:57:31","slug":"fired-navy-admiral-wins-democratic-runoff-in-south-carolinas-1st-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/44644\/","title":{"rendered":"Fired Navy Admiral Wins Democratic Runoff in South Carolina\u2019s 1st District"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nancy Lacore, a former Navy admiral who was fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth<\/a>, won the Democratic nomination for the First Congressional District of South Carolina, according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Ms. Lacore defeated Mac Deford, a Coast Guard veteran who was previously the general counsel for the town of Hilton Head Island.<\/p>\n

Now, Ms. Lacore faces a difficult task: 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-digit percentages in each of her past two elections.<\/p>\n

But Democrats, who view Ms. Lacore\u2019s military biography as a potentially game-changing asset, are still eyeing the seat despite how difficult it may be to flip. House Majority PAC, the main House Democratic super PAC, has reserved $2.1 million in the district for the fall, according to AdImpact, a media tracking platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to supporting the Democratic candidate in SC-01,\u201d said CJ Warnke, a spokesman for House Majority PAC.<\/p>\n

Ms. Lacore has a higher-than-average profile for a political newcomer. Last August, Mr. Hegseth fired her 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 delivered intelligence assessments that angered President Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Her national profile has helped her become a successful fund-raiser. She raised $500,000 in her first two weeks as a candidate and raised more than $1.6 million through late June, according to federal campaign finance records<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She also has the backing of several outside groups. VoteVets, the liberal political action committee known for supporting veterans running for office, spent about $100,000 on ads supporting Ms. Lacore during the primary.<\/p>\n

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, spent about $65,000 in support of Ms. Lacore during the primary. Both are indications that the well-funded groups may continue to back Ms. Lacore in the general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nancy Lacore, a former Navy admiral who was fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, won the Democratic nomination…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[286,8,13085,22448,14407,798,14408,9,2039,7],"class_list":["post-44644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-elections","tag-headlines","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-lacore","tag-mace","tag-midterm-elections-2026","tag-nancy","tag-news","tag-south-carolina","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116803786848841471","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44644","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=44644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}