Candidates Declared • Keith Blandford, businessman and
Libertarian nominee for this district in
2012 • Curtis Bostic, former Charleston County Councilman (defeated in runoff) • Ric Bryant, engineer •
Larry Grooms, state senator •
Jonathan Rath Hoffman, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Homeland Security, former director of border security at the
White House • Jeff King, engineer for a military contractor •
John R. Kuhn, former state senator •
Chip Limehouse, state representative •
Peter M. McCoy Jr., state representative • Elizabeth Moffly, member of the Charleston County School Board • Ray Nash, former Dorchester County Sheriff •
Andy Patrick, state representative • Shawn Pinkston, attorney •
Mark Sanford, former
Governor of South Carolina and former U.S. Representative (won primary) • Teddy Turner, high school teacher and son of
Ted Turner Declined • Carroll Campbell III, businessperson and son of former governor
Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. •
George E. Campsen III, state senator •
Tom Davis, state senator • Larry Kobrovsky, former
Charleston County School Board member •
James H. Merrill, state representative • Duffie Stone,
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