Candace Brewer is the United Citizens candidate for lieutenant governor on Michael Addison’s gubernatorial ticket in South Carolina’s Nov. 3, 2026, general election.
The state Election Commission lists four active governor–lieutenant governor tickets: Addison and Brewer, Walid Hakim and Arnold E. Karr (Green), Jermaine Johnson and Sam Skardon (Democratic), and Alan Wilson and Mike Reichenbach (Republican). Voters choose a joint ticket.
Experience
On her campaign website, Brewer describes herself as a Greenville-based private investigator, legal liaison, minister and founder of the South Carolina chapter of Protect Our Stolen Treasures, or P.O.S.T.
On the issues
Her platform calls for fairer sentencing, firearm education, broader healthcare access and stronger suicide-prevention and mental-health services.
On education, she favors bullying prevention, revisiting voucher systems, stronger public-school outcomes and skilled-trade pathways for high school graduates.
She also proposes property-tax relief and emphasizes government accountability and partnership with Addison. The campaign presents these as priorities for their joint administration.
Editor’s note: This profile uses official election records and Brewer’s published platform. The race description has been updated to identify the joint tickets.
