{"id":42592,"date":"2026-06-19T16:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42592"},"modified":"2026-06-19T16:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:53:20","slug":"brent-nelsen-comments-on-the-importance-of-endorsements-for-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/brent-nelsen-comments-on-the-importance-of-endorsements-for-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Brent Nelsen comments on the importance of political endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/insight.tveyes.com\/public\/media-center\/4991e0cd-5f52-4bd1-9a6c-16cf6945b050\/b14a2462-8942-4a62-9fb6-18bf759425a6\">WYFF News 4<\/a>, Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/brent-nelsen\/\">Brent Nelsen<\/a> explains the importance of a key endorsement for South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette, who will face South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson in a runoff June 23 for the republican gubernatorial nomination. Nelsen, a regular contributor on local and national news outlets, is the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/politics-international-affairs\/\">Politics and International Affairs<\/a> and director of the Tocqueville Center for the Study of Democracy and Society at Furman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman&#8217;s Nelsen weighs in on the impact of a key endorsement for South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette and what it means for the SC governor&#8217;s race. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":41938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32,3508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-wyff-news-4"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42592","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=42592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42595,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42592\/revisions\/42595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}