Leading in public opinion polls and in the critical campaign fundraising battle, four-term South Carolina attorney general Alan Wilson is pressing his advantage in the Palmetto State governor’s race this week – launching his first statewide television advertisement of the 2026 campaign.
Entitled “Convoy,” the thirty-second spot tells the story of Wilson’s combat deployment during Operation Iraqi Freedom II. Then a captain in the National Guard (he has since attained the rank of colonel), Wilson was leading a platoon through Iraq when he and his fellow soldiers were struck by an improvised explosive device.
“I was driving when we got hit,” sergeant Joe Merritt recalled in the ad. “I remember the blast passing through us, through our bodies, kind of surreal.”