I didn't vote for Alan Wilson last week, but I am happy to be supporting him in the runoff! 👀👇🫡🇺🇸 We're not enemies! Proud to support and vote Alan Wilson for Governor.
Tomorrow, at 11 AM, I will be announcing my decision regarding my endorsement in the Governor’s race.
One thing is clear: South Carolina cannot continue in the direction we are currently headed. We need to move in a more conservative direction that gives We The People our voice back.
That means ridding Columbia of the career politicians who have sold this state out for their own self-interests, passing meaningful judicial reform, fixing our roads and bridges, cutting spending, eliminating the back room deals, and making South Carolina more affordable for the taxpayers we all serve.
I look forward to tomorrow and to playing a part in making South Carolina the freest, most prosperous state in the country.
@fitsnews@RalphNorman@evannewman_sc@PamelaEvette has a track record that should make it clear to voters she’s unfit to be governor. She did nothing while redistricting failed to pass, budgets bloated, no tax on tips failed in SC, and roads crumbled! It’s time for the RINO to go!!
Stood idly by while 1.3 billion was given to an electric car manufacturer, said nothing while the state was shut down during Covid, and has been silent while budgets pass that funded woke nonsense. Your track record speaks for itself and it ain’t pretty.
South Carolina needs a comprehensive strategy to slash waste and permanently lower taxes.
That's why I launched Wilson's Waste Removal.
My plan will:
-Veto earmarks. No exceptions.
-Root out fraud, waste, and abuse through the Families First Audit Initiative led by Lt. Governor Mike Reichenbach.
-Use AI to audit government and identify waste.
-Eliminate the state income tax.
-Overhaul the Department of Commerce and end corporate bailouts.
-Deliver major property tax relief by automatically enrolling seniors in the Homestead Exemption, eliminating vehicle property taxes for seniors and veterans, expanding relief for disabled veterans, reforming Act 388, and working to lower personal property taxes on South Carolina businesses.
Less waste in Columbia means more money in your pocket.
Other states are doing it. South Carolina needs to catch up.
See my plan below. https://t.co/cUsQ0nrJeM
Glad to hear this! @PamelaEvette should have stopped this before it happened and she didn’t!! After voting for @RalphNorman in the primary my family and I are all in for @AGAlanWilson !!
Ever since USAID was defunded and thousands of NGO contracts were cancelled, left wing parties are losing in Central and South America.
Right-wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori just won the Peru election. This continues the trend of other countries rejected socialism.
While yesterday's result wasn’t what we hoped for, I want to thank the people of South Carolina for the opportunity to earn your support. I am proud of the campaign we ran and especially grateful for my family, my staff, our volunteers, our donors, our supporters, and everyone else who invested their time and energy into the campaign. Thank you for standing alongside me in this journey. Although this campaign is ending, our shared commitment to South Carolina's future remains as strong as ever. May God bless you, your families, and the great state of South Carolina.
Anyone still clinging to sitting South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster's endorsement of Pamela Evette as the next governor of South Carolina needs to get their head examined. This is the same guy whose record is a dumpster fire of cronyism, scandals, taxpayer rip-offs, and outright incompetence, and now people are supposed to trust his hand-picked successor in the runoff against Alan Wilson? Give me a break.
Let's run through the greatest hits of what McMaster did wrong while in office:
✅He let the VC Summer nuclear boondoggle explode into a $9+ billion disaster that stuck South Carolina ratepayers with massive bills for a plant that never produced a single watt of power. As attorney general he didn't block the rigged 2007 law that enabled it, and as governor he protected his big donor SCANA instead of fighting for families getting hammered on their electric bills. Executives went to prison for lying about it, McMaster acted like it was no big deal.
✅He was neck-deep in the Richard Quinn Statehouse corruption mess. His longtime political consultant Richard Quinn was at the center of the FBI probe, influence-peddling, and kickback schemes involving lawmakers, lobbyists, and big money. McMaster kept defending Quinn, kept the ties, and it even blocked his own appointments to the Ports Authority board until the legislature stepped in. Classic "protect my insiders first" behavior.
✅He got caught violating campaign finance laws, the Ethics Commission hit him with orders to repay over $72,000 in illegal excess donations from his 2010 run and pay a fine. Rules are for little people, apparently.
✅He vetoed millions in disaster relief for local governments and storm victims after historic flooding and hurricanes, an act so heartless that the entire legislature (Republicans and Democrats) overrode him in a rare bipartisan smackdown. "These folks got left out in the cold" while McMaster played politics.
✅He turned the lieutenant governor's office into a launching pad for his own political dynasty and insider deals (hello, Trump floating his son as Evette's running mate). Evette has been right there beside him the whole time, so his glowing endorsement of her is just more of the same backroom continuity, not change, not reform, not results for working South Carolinians.
McMaster's entire tenure has been about protecting donors, dodging accountability, and leaving messes for the next guy.
If that's the "winning record" people are hyping to push Evette over Alan Wilson, then South Carolina voters deserve better than this tired, scandal-plagued endorsement.
Time to reject the dynasty and choose real leadership.
@kendradsexton I live in Greenville and my wife, my 18 year old son- voting for the first time- and myself voted today, and none of us voted for Lady Lindsey. He’s an affront to our values! Close our primaries!!!
Last year, the SPLC added TPUSA to their so-called "hate map," placing us alongside neo-Nazi organizations and the Ku Klux Klan. The day before Charlie was murdered, they published a newsletter attacking him and Turning Point USA.
Today, they doubled down and stood by that designation.
They have to, because it's their real mission. As we now know thanks to the Trump DOJ, the SPLC itself funds violent extremist groups to stoke fear among the public, so they can stick organizations like Turning Point USA on their "hate map" and tar us by association.
Turning Point USA has, from the beginning, stood for open conversations and respectful debate regardless of creed or color.
All along, the real hate group is the SPLC, which recklessly sows hate every day with its lies.
@danbostic You maybe right in many respects, but the first step to ridding our amazing state of the RINOs is to close the primaries, without that we don’t stand a chance.
America's cultural ideal has been the self-made entrepreneur while Europe's was rooted in aristocracy, with status inherited rather than earned. Europe's inheritance laws show this divide.
Many European countries have "forced heirship" laws that require people to leave 50-75% of their estates to their children. Want to leave the majority of your wealth to charity? not allowed. Your kids are estranged from you, struggling with addiction, or irresponsible? still required to give them the money. Want your kids to avoid a life of entitlement? tough.
Incredibly, these laws look back at transfers made during your lifetime. If you have 3 children in France, you're required to bequeath them a minimum of 75% of your estate. Because French law calculates this based on your assets at death plus all lifetime gifts, giving away more than 25% of your wealth while alive means your heirs can legally sue to force charities or foundations to return the funds. This has limited the development of the nonprofit sector on the continent.
The cultural gap between an entrepreneurial society and one shaped by dynastic wealth is enormous. If you make it yourself, you tend to want your kids to do the same. If you inherit it, the primary goal is protecting the estate for the next gen.
Countries like Spain, France, and Italy legally entrench family dynasties, while America has historically sought to limit them through estate taxes. The result is not only a weaker culture of philanthropy and civil society in Europe, but also less economic dynamism.