New Delhi, June 10 -- The endorsement that was supposed to settle the race settled almost nothing. Donald Trump picked Pamela Evette for governor of South Carolina, campaigned for her in the reddest state he owns, and on Tuesday she finished first with 29 percent of the Republican vote, a number that forces her into a June 23 runoff and forces her party to ask what the president's blessing is currently worth.

state Representative Jermaine Johnson took his party's nomination with 60 percent when the Associated Press called the race, and will face the runoff's winner in November.

The casualty of the evening was Nancy Mace, and the manner of it completed a story this page has been following. The congresswoman built her campaign expecting T...