COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – With support from tea party voters and Sarah Palin, an Indian-American woman and a black man entered Tuesday primary runoffs for separate firsts in South Carolina politics.

Nikki Haley could move closer to becoming South Carolina's first woman governor while Tim Scott hoped to become the state's first black GOP congressman in more than a century. Both are state representatives and have been endorsed by Palin.
The tea party chorus was more fractured in Utah, where another closely watched runoff features split conservative backing for the two Republicans vying to succeed three-term U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett. Bennet was ousted at the Republican state convention in a success for tea party supporters, but settling on his successor has proved harder.
In South Carolina, Haley faced U.S. Rep. Gresham Barrett. Scott was going up against Paul Thurmond, the son of the late U.S. Sen. and former segregationist Strom Thurmond.