South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, accompanied by his family, announced he is running for governor of South Carolina on Monday, June 23, 2025. (Tracy Glantz/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who has said that she is considering running for governor, has previously accused Wilson of protecting pedophiles.
"How does Alan Wilson explain his record of protecting kids vs. protecting p*dos? You either protect kids or you protect p*dos. You can't do both. Alan Wilson chose p*dophiles. Hold the line," Mace wrote in an April post on X.
Robert Kittle, spokesperson for the state attorney general’s office, called Mace’s accusations "ridiculous," telling Fox News Digital in an email on Tuesday that as an assistant attorney general, Wilson previously "prosecuted, and put behind bars, people who sexually abused children."
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Rep. Nancy Mace is considering a run for governor of South Carolina. (GOP Oversight YouTube channel)
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Current Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, is not eligible to seek another term in 2026 because the state constitution stipulates, "No person shall be elected Governor for more than two successive terms."
McMaster, who became governor in 2017 after Gov. Nikki Haley, also a Republican, stepped down to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, won the state's 2018 and 2022 gubernatorial elections.
Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.
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