Part of: 2026 Governor Campaign
2025 in review: from Congress to a governor's bid
A look back at 2025, the year Nancy Mace's focus turned toward the South Carolina governorship while serving her third term in the U.S. House.
The year 2025 saw Nancy Mace's political focus broaden from her work in the U.S. House toward a campaign for Governor of South Carolina in the 2026 cycle. She entered 2025 in her third term as the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district, having been re-elected in 2024. During the year she announced her candidacy for governor, a race in which she would emerge as an early front-runner in internal polling.
A sourced timeline of 2025 milestones, committee work, notable votes, and the steps leading to the gubernatorial announcement, should be added as the record is compiled.
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June 9, 2026 · Dispatch'My time is up at the end of this year': Mace confirms she's leaving Congress
In her concession after the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, Nancy Mace confirmed she will not seek re-election to the U.S. House: 'my time is up at the end of this year.' Her House term ends in January 2027. She has described the exit as keeping a three-term pledge she says she made in 2020, a characterization examined below.
- May 20, 2026 · Dispatch
Mace continues House duties amid governor run
The congresswoman continued her work in the U.S. House while campaigning for governor, now in her third term representing South Carolina's 1st district.
November 19, 2025 · DispatchMace tells Rep. Cory Mills 'You're a disgrace' on the House floor as her censure resolution is read
As a clerk read Mace's censure resolution on the House floor in November 2025, she confronted Rep. Cory Mills face-to-face and told him 'You're a disgrace'; reporters also observed her appearing to mouth an additional expletive.
September 18, 2025 · DispatchMace tells D.C. mayor the city has become a 'poster child for DEI and gender madness', and 'this is not her time'
At a House Oversight Committee hearing on September 18, 2025, Mace told D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser that the District had become a 'poster child for DEI and gender madness' and cut off Bowser's responses by declaring 'this is not her time.'
- September 18, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace to D.C. Mayor Bowser: 'What is a woman?'
During a September 18, 2025 House committee hearing, Mace pressed D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on the definition of 'woman' under the D.C. Code.
September 18, 2025 · DispatchMace to Mayor Bowser: 'You can be quiet as I ask you questions'
During the same September 18, 2025 House committee hearing, Mace cut off D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser mid-response with a pointed instruction.