Nancy Lacore projected to win SC Congressional seat
Race subject to recount as margin is 1% or less, though Lacore campaign claims it is outside threshold
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Vice Adm. Nancy Lacore, Chief of Navy Reserve delivers remarks during a change of command ceremony where Rear Adm. Luke Frost relieved Rear Adm. Mike Steffen as commanding officer of Commander, Navy Reserve Forces Command aboard Naval Station Norfolk on June 27, 2025. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tyra M. Watson)
Photograph: Military.com (embedded from source)
What this story says
- Democratic former U.S. Navy admiral Nancy Lacore is projected to win South Carolina's 1st Congressional District.
- Lacore is projected to defeat Republican rival Jenny Costa Honeycutt in the race for the seat previously held by Nancy Mace.
- The election margin is 1% or less, triggering a recount under South Carolina state rules.
- Lacore's campaign stated their lead is outside the threshold for an automatic recount.
Who covered it
Percentages are shares of the 6 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 1 of the 7 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .
Trust
60/100
Craft
65/100
Hype
45/100
7 sources · methodology
Thin on the left so far
None of the 6 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.
This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.
Democratic former U.S. Navy admiral Nancy Lacore is projected to win South Carolina's 1st Congressional District. She was set to defeat Republican rival Jenny Costa Honeycutt for the seat formerly held by Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, who left Congress for a failed gubernatorial bid. The Associated Press had not yet called the race as of Wednesday morning, with 99% of votes counted and Lacore ahead by approximately 3,350 votes, or 1%.
Recount looms over narrow margin
South Carolina state election rules require a recount when the difference between the winning candidate and any non-winning candidate is 1% or less of the total votes cast. However, the Lacore campaign issued a statement on Wednesday morning asserting that the latest vote totals have expanded their lead, placing the race outside the margin for an automatic recount. The campaign stated that voters have made their choice clear and that Lacore will be the highest-ranking military officer in the 120th Congress.
What the coverage left out
None of the right-rated reports mentioned that Nancy Mace previously held the seat and left Congress for a failed gubernatorial bid. The digests from The Epoch Times and WCIV did not include statements from the Lacore campaign regarding their lead being outside the recount margin.
Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 2 times, most recently on 4 Nov 2026, 16:15, and will add the sides that appear.
How each side covered it
Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.
Left
0 rated outlets
No outlet rated left has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.
Centre
4 rated outlets
- Centre-rated reports focused on the projection of Nancy Lacore's victory and the potential for a recount. Military.com, in its full report, detailed Lacore's 35-year Navy career and her ousting by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. This report also included statements from the Lacore campaign regarding the recount margin and her focus on issues like financial freedom, healthcare, and housing costs. WSAV and The Post and Courier digests highlighted Lacore's projected win over Jenny Costa Honeycutt and the narrow vote margin. The Hill digest noted that Lacore, a former Navy Admiral fired by Hegseth, was projected to win the seat previously held by Nancy Mace, with the race being shifted by Cook Political Report.
Right
2 rated outlets
- Right-rated reports highlighted that a retired U.S. Navy admiral, removed by the Pentagon in 2025, has won a Republican-held House seat in South Carolina. The Epoch Times digest stated that Nancy Lacore won 49.65 percent of the votes with 100 percent of precincts reporting. WCIV's digest reported that Lacore held a slim lead in the 1st Congressional District, which looked poised to head to an automatic recount if results held.
Questions about this coverage
- How did the left and right cover Nancy Lacore projected to win SC Congressional seat?
- Of the 6 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 0% are rated left, 67% are rated centre, 33% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 7. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
- Is Nancy Lacore projected to win SC Congressional seat left or right?
- Too few of the outlets on this story carry a published leaning rating to say. 6 of them do, and this site does not characterise a field under 12: at that size one newsroom filing moves the share by ten points. The percentages above are the count as it stands.
- Is the coverage of Nancy Lacore projected to win SC Congressional seat biased?
- Nancy Lacore projected to win SC Congressional seat is one event reported by 7 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
- Which side is not reporting Nancy Lacore projected to win SC Congressional seat?
- When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
- Which outlets covered Nancy Lacore projected to win SC Congressional seat?
- 7 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
- Who is projected to win South Carolina's 1st Congressional District?
- Democratic former U.S. Navy admiral Nancy Lacore is projected to win South Carolina's 1st Congressional District. She is running against Republican rival Jenny Costa Honeycutt for the seat previously held by Nancy Mace.
- Why is the race subject to a recount?
- The race is subject to a recount because the margin between the candidates is 1% or less. South Carolina state election rules mandate a recount when the vote difference falls within this threshold.
- What does the Lacore campaign say about the recount?
- The Lacore campaign stated that recent vote totals have expanded their lead, placing the race outside the margin for an automatic recount. They believe the voters' choice is clear and that Lacore will be the highest-ranking military officer in the 120th Congress.
Read it at the source
7 outlets, grouped by the leaning a published rating gives them. Every headline links to the original; an underlined outlet name opens our profile of that publisher.
Left
0No outlet in this group ran the story.
Centre
4- Retired Navy Admiral Nancy Lacore, Ousted by Hegseth, Projected to Flip South Carolina House Seat as Recount Looms (opens Military.com in a new tab)
Military.com — is Military.com biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Nancy Lacore wins South Carolina 1st Congressional District race (opens WSAV in a new tab)
- Security Check (opens The Post and Courier in a new tab)
The Post and Courier — is The Post and Courier biased? Our profile of this outlet
- Navy admiral fired by Hegseth flips Mace’s South Carolina seat (opens The Hill in a new tab)
Right
2Not rated
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