The Charleston Post & Courier reports:

The race for South Carolina’s most conservative U.S. House district is headed to a runoff. Mark Burns, a leading face of the Christian nationalist movement, and Sheri Biggs, a nurse and lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, battled for the lead in the first round of voting in the June 11 Republican primary for the Upstate’s 3rd Congressional District.

Because neither garnered more than 50 percent of the vote, the pair are heading to a runoff where Upstate voters will be asked to come out again June 25.

Burns rallied would-be rioters ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, sacking of the United States Capitol building. He once suggested that parents and educators who pushed the LGBTQ “agenda” in public schools should be jailed for treason, or even executed, for doing so. He also has the endorsement of Trump, for whom Burns serves as an informal spiritual advisor.

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Burns, who regularly headlines QAnon events, first appeared here in 2016 when he jumped up and literally fled a CNN interview after being confronted for lying about his military service and education.

Burns later claimed that his website had been hacked to make the false claims and that he was being attacked for being a black Trump supporter. Trump first posted an endorsement of Burns when he ran for the US House in 2022.

In 2022, Burns laid out his plan for executing LGBTQs for “grooming” during an appearance on the show hosted by Holocaust denier Stew Peters.