A retired U.S. Navy admiral, removed by the Pentagon in 2025, has won a Republican-held House seat representing South Carolina.
Retired Vice Admiral Democrat Nancy Lacore won 161,878, or 49.65 percent, of the votes in the race to represent South Carolina’s First Congressional District, with 100 percent of precincts reporting, according to midterm election results from the state on Nov. 4.
Lacore triumphed over Republican nominee Jenny Costa Honeycutt, a lawyer who earned 48.64 percent of the vote.
“What a hard night. But what a victory,” Lacore said at a watch party. “You know there will be a recount, and I welcome it to just reconfirm what we already know.”…