MORNING HEADLINES | Retired Navy Rear Admiral Nancy Lacore of Mount Pleasant, a former chief of the Navy Reserve, is joining at least 14 other candidates running for South Carolina’s coastal 1st Congressional District.
Lacore is now among a slew of Democratic candidates, including Mac Deford, Max Diaz, Matthew Fulmer and Mayra Rivera-Vazquez.
“I think our military is being politicized,” Lacore told the S.C. Daily Gazette. “I think our democracy’s at risk, to be honest, and I want to be a part of the solution.”
While a fairly new South Carolina resident, Lacore said her ties to the Palmetto State include a daughter and her husband who graduated from the University of South Carolina. They live in the Lowcountry, and she’s been vacationing in the Lowcountry for a decade, she said.
In her launch video, Lacore said that she was removed from her leadership role last August by U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and was given no reason why she was fired.
“I’ve spent decades serving our country, and I still have more to give, more to fight for and more work to do,” Lacore said in a voiceover before pledging, “I’m not done yet.”
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