COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Nurse practitioner and Air National Guard officer Sheri Biggs has won the Republican nomination for the U.S. House in South Carolina’s 3rd District. Biggs clinched the nomination Tuesday after being backed by Republican Gov. Henry McMaster. She and her husband were longtime friends and financial backers of the governor. Biggs defeated Mark Burns, a Black pastor who has been by former President Donald Trump’s side for nearly a decade and has unsuccessfully run for Congress twice before. In November, Biggs will face Democratic nominee, paint store manager Byron Best from Greenwood, and Michael Bedenbaugh of the Alliance Party. Biggs will be a heavy favorite in the most Republican district in GOP-dominated South Carolina.
