Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina announced on Monday that she will enter the crowded 2026 contest to be governor of the Palmetto State.

The anti-transgender congresswoman, a staunch loyalist to President Donald Trump, will face off against Alan Wilson, South Carolina’s longtime attorney general, Pamela Evette, the state’s lieutenant governor, and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, another especially conservative member.

In a post on X, she announced, “I’m running to be the governor of South Carolina! God’s not done with South Carolina and neither am I.”

She continued, “You and me. Our mission begins now. South Carolina First. Nancy Mace for governor.”

While Mace’s video highlighted remarks by Trump in which he praised her as “a fighter,” and she has kept the White House apprised

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