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Key points
- Nancy Lacore won the Democrats' 254th House seat, beating Jenny Costa Honeycutt in South Carolina's first district.
- Lacore is a former Navy vice admiral who was fired last year by Pete Hegseth without explanation.
- Nancy Mace left the House race for governor, finished fifth in the June primary and now hosts a podcast.
Democrat Nancy Lacore has won her party's 254th seat in the House, defeating Republican Jenny Costa Honeycutt in the race for South Carolina's first congressional district, according to The Guardian. The seat was being vacated by Republican Nancy Mace, who ran for governor instead of seeking re-election.
Lacore is a former Navy vice admiral who served as chief of the Navy Reserve before being fired last year without explanation by Pete Hegseth, the former Fox News weekend host Donald Trump chose as defense secretary.
Mace's primary defeat and podcast
Mace finished a distant fifth in the Republican primary in June. She then started a podcast, Get Maced, which she recently used to promote the racist conspiracy theory that "Radical Islam Is CONQUERING America From Within".
Radical Islam Is CONQUERING America From Within
— Nancy Mace
