South Carolina runoff pits Trump candidate against GOP governor's endorsement

FILE - Pastor Mark Burns speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention, July 21, 2016, in Cleveland. Burns is running for the Republican nomination for a U.S. House seat in South Carolina . This undated photo provided by the Sheri Biggs for Congress Campaign shows Biggs. Biggs is a nurse practitioner making her first run for political office. FILE - South Carolina Sens.

Both candidates haven’t held political office before and the winner in the runoff is a heavy favorite to beat a Democrat and a third party candidate in the most Republican district in GOP-dominated South Carolina.. McMaster was the nation’s first statewide elected official to back Trump in early 2016. Trump said when he became president he asked then South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to become U.N.

Biggs, who finished second with 29% of the vote, is a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard. She said Burns misconstrues his academic and military background and voted for former Democratic President Barack Obama. Biggs has promoted pictures of her taken with Trump and said she is the candidate who can bring people together.

“You can check my financial reports,” said Biggs, who lists millions of dollars in assets in investments and businesses with her husband. “I submitted mine unlike my opponent.”The Republican nominee will face the Democratic nominee, Sherwin-Williams paint store manager Byron Best from Greenwood, and Michael Bedenbaugh, of the Alliance Party in November.

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