CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina's lone black Republican state representative is heading to a GOP runoff to fill an open coastal congressional seat.
Charleston state Rep. Tim Scott got the most votes Tuesday to advance to the June 22 runoff. He was waiting to find out his opponent.
The winner will face perennial candidate Ben Fraiser, who won the Democratic primary in the strongly Republican district reaching along most of the coast.
Scott has spent one term in the South Carolina House, where the 44-year-old businessman became the first black GOP representative in more than 100 years.
Nine Republicans entered the primary to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Henry Brown, including sons of famous South Carolina politicians, Paul Thurmond and Carroll Campbell III.
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