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'How many times are you going to call your daddy, Alan?', Mace's Nov. 3 barrage at AG Alan Wilson and his father, Rep. Joe Wilson

On November 3, 2025, Mace fired a string of X posts at her chief Republican gubernatorial rival, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, mocking him as 'not man enough' and suffering from 'Low T,' accusing him of running to 'your daddy' (his father, U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson) to 'go after me,' and calling Alan Wilson, in her words, a 'p*dophile protector.' Wilson has accused Mace of 'ranting and raving' and his office has said she mischaracterized prosecution data; the two later reconciled, and after Mace finished fifth in the June 2026 primary she endorsed Wilson.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, 2025
Photo: FITSNews. Source

On the evening of November 3, 2025, Nancy Mace posted on X (@NancyMace) about her chief Republican rival in the 2026 South Carolina governor's race, Attorney General Alan Wilson, and his father, longtime U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC-02):

"LIVE LOOK at p*dophile protector Alan Wilson and his dad, Cong. Joe Wilson, plotting to take me out. Alan had to call his daddy AGAIN today and BEGGED him to go after me. How many times are you going to call your daddy Alan?" , Nancy Mace (@NancyMace), 6:27 PM, November 3, 2025

The same line was packaged into a "LIVE LOOK" news-chyron graphic, set over a photo of the two Wilsons, that circulated alongside the post. The text matched her X post verbatim; the post itself was text-only.

The post was part of a same-day barrage at the Wilsons. Earlier that afternoon Mace had written, tagging the attorney general directly:

"CALLING YOUR DADDY TO ATTACK ME BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT MAN ENOUGH - is Low T", Nancy Mace (@NancyMace), 3:04 PM, November 3, 2025

and she followed the "daddy" post minutes later with: "Alan Wilson isn't man enough to run for Governor on his own, so he relies" on his father. The recurring theme across the thread was that Alan Wilson, the sitting attorney general, was leaning on his congressman father to fight Mace for him.

Background

Alan Wilson, South Carolina's attorney general, and Mace were the two best-known names in a crowded 2026 Republican gubernatorial primary. His father, Joe Wilson, the Lexington-area congressman best known for shouting "You lie!" at President Obama in 2009, had publicly criticized Mace after she launched her campaign, accusing her in an August 5, 2025 statement of "self-promotion over service"; he and his wife endorsed their son for governor. Mace, in turn, had spent months attacking Alan Wilson over his office's handling of child sex-crime prosecutions, language she escalated into the "pedophile" framing she used again here (see the January 2026 "pedophile paradise" dispatch).

Wilson has rejected those attacks. His office said Mace had "drastically mischaracterized" the prosecution data she cited, and Wilson accused her of "ranting and raving." The "p*dophile protector" label is Mace's characterization of a political opponent, which Wilson disputes; nothing in the exchange is a finding about either man's conduct.

The feud did not last. Mace later said she and Wilson had "buried the hatchet," and after she finished fifth in the June 9, 2026 Republican primary, won by Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and Wilson, who advanced to a runoff, Mace endorsed Alan Wilson for governor.

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'How many times are you going to call your daddy, Alan?', Mace's Nov. 3 barrage at AG Alan Wilson and his father, Rep. Joe Wilson: image 1
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