South Carolina’s Republican race for governor spilled onto the national stage this week, with two leading contenders using separate CNN appearances to criticize one another — along with what happened in an incident at the Charleston airport — just 24 hours apart.

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace and state Attorney General Alan Wilson traded accusations in interviews that aired on consecutive nights on the same CNN program, turning a simmering intrastate rivalry into a nationally televised exchange. Both are rivals in the state’s 2026 GOP gubernatorial primary.

The escalation comes as Mace faces renewed scrutiny over an October confrontation at the Charleston International Airport, where she reportedly hurled insults and expletives at airport staff and TSA agents during the most recent federal gove

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