{"id":38896,"date":"2025-08-08T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=38896"},"modified":"2025-08-08T13:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:03:49","slug":"fleming-comments-on-nancy-maces-bid-for-sc-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/fleming-comments-on-nancy-maces-bid-for-sc-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleming comments on Nancy Mace&#8217;s bid for SC governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article appearing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/08\/05\/poll-shows-early-support-for-alan-wilson-nancy-mace-for-sc-governor\/85513238007\/\">The Greenville News<\/a>, Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/david-fleming\/\">David Fleming<\/a> weighed in on U.S. Representative Nancy Mace and her official entry into the fray for the South Carolina gubernatorial republican primary. Fleming, a professor of politics and international affairs, commented on the results of a republican poll gauging name recognition and approval among the five GOP candidates. While it&#8217;s still very early in the primary conversation, Fleming said Mace is attracting name recognition, which is important in early polling. He also added that voters will look for a &#8220;strong, conservative candidate, but the most right-wing candidate doesn&#8217;t always win.&#8221; He said, ultimately, voters want a functional government whose leaders are &#8220;looking out for them&#8221; and those who are providing a &#8220;positive message for the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The story also ran in USA Today network outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/08\/05\/poll-shows-early-support-for-alan-wilson-nancy-mace-for-sc-governor\/85513238007\/\">Independent Mail<\/a>. A subscription may be required to view the content. Furman ID holders may access the content through databases located at Furman University Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News sources turn to Furman politics expert David Fleming for insights about U.S. Representative Nancy Mace and her entry into to the SC governor&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":25032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,6,1952,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greenville-news","category-in-the-news","category-independent-mail","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38897,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38896\/revisions\/38897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}