Nancy mace

The video was the very definition of cringe. One day after Donald Trump endorsed her Republican primary opponent, freshman Representative Nancy Mace filmed a The move looked desperate because it was. Mace had been extremely critical of Trump after the Capitol attack on January 6, but blowback from the MAGA right, and her fellow Republican lawmakers, had reminded her to tread more carefully. This week, Mace’s caution paid off: She defeated Katie Arrington, her Trump-backed challenger, by eight points in yesterday’s South Carolina Republican primary. For some in her party, Mace’s victory is evidence that GOP lawmakers must be loyal to Trump, but maybe not unfailingly so. It “shows you don’t have to kiss the ring,” Chip Felkel, a state Republican strategist, told me. “She polished the ring—she didn’t kiss it.” That’s likely true. But other factors worked in Mace’s favor too. Since her election in 2020, Mace has offered a study in Trump-era political shape-shifting. During her campaign, Mace, 44, did not shy away from her devotion to Trump. She had worked on his campaign in 2016, and she promised to be his ally in Congress. Which is why it was so surprising when she emerged as one of the most vocal GOP lawmakers condemning him for his misleading rhetoric ahead of the January 6 insurrection. Here was a Republican with a different kind of story: a divorced mother of two and the first female graduate of the Citadel, South Carolina’s revered military college, who seemed eager to l...

Yet many in the GOP rallied to his defense, saying Mr. Biden had his own stumbles in handling classified documents. Ms. Mace also pointed to the lack of charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server for official business. “Everyone’s held to a different standard but “ Read the indictment HERE.

Nancy Ruth Mace (born December 4, 1977) is an American politician serving as the In 1999, Mace was the first woman to graduate from the Mace worked on Early life, education, and career [ ] Mace was born at In the Company of Men: A Woman at The Citadel ( Mace went on to earn a master's degree in journalism and mass communication from the In 2008, Mace started a consulting business called The Mace Group. Early political career [ ] Mace campaigned for the Mace worked for South Carolina House of Representatives [ ] Elections [ ] 2017 special [ ] On September 18, 2017, Mace filed as a Mace defeated Democrat Cindy Boatwright in the January 16, 2018, general election, 2,066 votes to 1,587 (57–43%). 2018 [ ] Mace defeated the Democratic nominee, Mount Pleasant resident Jen Gibson, in the November 6, 2018 general election. Tenure [ ] In 2019, Mace successfully advocated for the inclusion of exceptions for Mace co-sponsored a bill to oppose The Conservation Voters of South Carolina gave Mace a 100% Lifetime rating for her voting record against offshore drilling and seismic testing. In May 2020, Governor U.S. House of Representatives [ ] Elections [ ] 2020 [ ] See also: In June 2019, Mace announced that she would seek the Republican nomination for Bikers for Trump founder Chris Cox in the June 9 Republican primary. During her primary campaign, she ran an advertisement stating she would "help President Trump take care of our veterans", and in which Vice President Mace focused her camp...

Rep. Mace told Semafor's Steve Clemons on Tuesday that Biden negotiated a "pretty damn good deal" for his side, saying the “Republicans totally got rolled," Mace "We gave away all the leverage we had, which was the debt ceiling over the next two years, past the election. There’s no more leverage here," Mace said. She cited a “Republicans totally got rolled,” The president On the other side, Mace claimed on Tuesday that $17.3 trillion in spending will go toward adding debt. When "you see these measures that, once they come out of the House, they might look responsible, but because we didn't agree to them in writing, they're not worth the paper they're printed on when they go to the Senate — people will see what is just all an illusion," Mace said. Mace She had also signaled opposition toward the Limit, Save, Grow Act, Republicans' initial offering in the debt limit negotiations, before later voting "yes" after meeting with McCarthy.

The Republican Representative of South Carolina’s first congressional district,Nancy Mace, has a biography that celebrates perseverance. A high-school dropout, she earned a GED. Then graduated (magna cum laude) from The Citadel , South Carolina’s venerable military school — the first woman to do so from its Corps of Cadets. She added a Master's Degree from the University of Georgia. In 2008 she founded The Mace Group, a consulting concern. In 2014, she turned to politics and finished a distant fifth to incumbent Linsey Graham in the Republican Senate primary. In 2017 she won a special election for a SC state house seat. In 2020, she was elected to Congress. Mace was hard to put in a box. She is both a dyed-in-the-wool conservative —and pro-LGBTQ and pro-conservation while supporting exceptions to Republican abortion absolutism. She has also promoted Trump — and been the victim of his vituperation. In 2016, she worked on Trump’s South Carolina campaign. Yet, in 2021, she criticized him for instigating the Jan 6 Capitol riots. She was one of only seven Republicans who publicly refused to challenge the results of the 2020 election. So displeased was the thin-skinned narcissist that he supported her 2022 primary opponent, KatieArrington —a woman who, ironically, the Pentagon fired for mishandling classified material. Trump was blunt in offering his opinion of Mace’s apostasy. “Katie Arrington is running against an absolutely terrible candidate, Congresswoman Nancy Mace, whose ...

Nancy Mace gives “zero fucks” about what her colleagues think of her. She tells me this within the first few minutes of us sitting down in the back of her wood-paneled office on the seventh floor of the Longworth House Office Building. She is dressed like Wednesday Addams and projecting a similar bluntness to that of the character. In a Republican Party increasingly defined by its fringe, Mace has managed to wrestle a slice of the spotlight away from the more bombastic lawmakers. She’s a regular on the cable network news shows; she’s made headlines for calling out Republicans on their antiabortion agenda and for Donald Trump’s rhetoric before and after the January 6 Capitol attack but voted against the 45th president’s impeachment.) A profile in courage would be premature. But Mace shows no signs of abatement in her criticisms of what she views as the Republican Party’s doomed trajectory. “I am a Republican, but I am a caucus of one,” Mace says. “When I think things are going in a direction where we should be heading the opposite way, I will speak up. And oftentimes I’ll speak up privately, but if that’s not enough, then I will tend to speak out publicly.” A Republican political operative who works with and socializes with Mace suggested that I interview her over a few drinks to really get to know her. “It’s so cliché to be like, ‘Oh, she’s not a politician,’ but she really isn’t. If you just met her, you would have zero idea that she was an elected official,” this person ...

Though Mace said she cast that anti-Bannon vote to protect the power of a critical congressional oversight tool, some fellow Republicans viewed the move differently. Colleagues are now left to wonder if Mace, who worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign before disavowing the former president in the wake of the insurrection and then lowering the volume on her criticism, is slowly arcing her political trajectory back toward her post-Jan. 6 image as one of the few House Republicans skeptical of a Donald Trump-ruled GOP. Mace’s vote on the Bannon contempt referral didn’t deter her allies: Fellow freshman Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) lauded her “true grit” for breaking from most of her party. Yet it also emboldened her critics: Pro-Trump freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said her colleague “stabbed ... her voters in the back” by flipping on Trump. The vote to hold Bannon in contempt “was a vote regarding contempt of a congressional committee, a vote to protect Congress’ authority to investigate and issue subpoenas,” Mace “I said I would not blindly follow partisan politics, but rather vote for what is right — not for what is politically expedient — and, most importantly, represent our district,” she added. Mace’s start in D.C. was anything but normal, after a 2014 primary challenge from the right to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) fizzled out. She came to Congress amid a raging pandemic; just three days after her swearing-in, Mace and her new colleagues were confronted with a vio...