Nancy Mace lost her cool and cursed through a Jubilee debate on trans athletes, telling the host to 'sit the fuck back down'

Reporting relied on: Jubilee Media's debate show "The Split," episode "Congresswoman Nancy Mace vs Liberal on Trans Athletes" (YouTube, September 6, 2026). The progressive host is David Mauricio (@reggiebblue), who posted the widely shared clip from his own account; the conservative host is Austin Julio Broughton. Every quotation below is transcribed from Jubilee's published video. Mace's segment runs from 18:55 to 37:03.

On September 6, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace appeared as the guest debater on Jubilee Media's "The Split," a show that seats a guest between a progressive host and a conservative host to argue a single topic. The topic was the WNBA, and whether a women's basketball league should write a definition of "woman" into its eligibility rules. Over roughly eighteen minutes the exchange came apart. As the progressive host, David Mauricio, kept pressing the premise of the fight, Mace lost her cool on camera again and again: she cursed at least five times, from "bullshit" to "this shit is everywhere" to "I got my ass kicked" to telling Mauricio to "sit the fuck back down," and, as the segment ended, calling him "the most venomous son of a bitch I have ever sat across." She also refused to say who won the 2020 election, could not point to where her "mental illness" claim appears in the DSM, conceded she "got [her] ass kicked" in the governor's race, and, asked how she squares her advocacy for assault survivors with standing behind Donald Trump, answered, "I don't need a guy telling me what to do." A short clip of the closing exchange, posted by Mauricio, drew more than 519,000 views on X and was reposted by the @ThomasSowell account.

The player above jumps to the start of Mace's segment at 18:55. Source of record for every quotation below: Jubilee Media, "The Split."

"I have no idea. Not that we know of."

Mace opened by framing the WNBA as the newest front in what she called "the civil rights issue of our time":

"Women's rights are being eroded day by day, state by state, sports league by sports league, school by school, locker room by locker room. Women are being erased. And I see this really as a civil rights issue for us."

Mauricio's first question went straight to the premise:

Mauricio: And just to be clear, there's never been a trans athlete that's participated in any WNBA game ever. Correct?

Mace: I have no idea. Not that we know of and not that it matters. I mean, you don't build the spray to put out the fire after the fire has started, right?

Later in the segment Mace agreed the WNBA issue was "insignificant, that is non-existent in the WNBA," while continuing to argue the league should be made to write a definition anyway. She said no trans athlete had ever participated in the league in the same breath as arguing the fight was necessary.

"Mentally ill men"

Describing who she believes is behind the erosion of women's rights, Mace said:

"these rights are being eroded by mentally ill men trying to take those rights away from women."

She repeated the framing, calling support for transgender people "a disgusting movement" that "we should push back harder than ever before."

Mauricio asked her to substantiate the characterization:

Mauricio: also earlier you said that it was a mental illness. Can you point to me where in the DSM-5 it states that?

Mace did not cite the manual. The conservative host, Austin Broughton, stepped in and said, "I think you won't find that in the DSM," before offering his own view that many people who want to transition are "suffering from a mental issue."

The cursing

Mace's frustration boiled over repeatedly, and much of it came with profanity. Across the segment she cursed on camera five times. Arguing that the WNBA should be able to define "woman," she said:

"we have a women's league that can't lift a finger to do that. To me it's asinine and it's crazy. I say it's bullshit."

Describing a teacher she said was transitioning in front of nine-year-olds, she said:

"she's shoving pronouns down their throat. And this is in a red state. So this shit is everywhere and it's got to stop. And real men need to start protecting women."

Mauricio answered that claim with a number:

Mauricio: The truth is this shit is not everywhere. According to a GLAD poll, only 8% of voters view the trans issue as one of the most important in this country, with the overwhelming majority looking at the economy.

The other three of Mace's curses came later: conceding "I got my ass kicked" in the governor's race, telling Mauricio to "sit the fuck back down," and, as the segment closed, calling him "the most venomous son of a bitch I have ever sat across" (all below). The edited clip Maceopedia produced runs an on-screen "cuss counter" that climbs to six across the exchange, tallying the profanity on both sides of the table.

"Who won the 2020 election?"

When Mace pivoted to January 6 and demanded Mauricio state his own position, he turned the question back on her:

Mauricio: Who won the 2020 election?

Mace: What do we, do you want to talk about it or do we, what do you want to talk about?

Mace did not answer. Mauricio asked a second time ("what are your thoughts on the 2020 election? Who won?"), and Mace again redirected the conversation rather than name a winner.

"Yeah, I got my ass kicked."

Mauricio pointed to Mace's 2026 campaign for South Carolina governor:

Mauricio: You ran on trans issues at the forefront of your candidacy for South Carolina governor and you only got 12% of the vote.

Mace said she had chosen not to seek re-election to the House ("I committed and promised to six years in the House. And I believe in term limits") and pointed to her 2024 congressional win against "a pediatrician who was pro-gender affirming care for kids." On the governor's race, she conceded:

"Governor's race, yeah, I got my ass kicked, and I'm sorry that happened to you, but that's life."

She then acknowledged the ordering of voters' priorities that Mauricio had been pressing: "the economy is the number one issue, affordability across the ballot," and "people aren't voting on the trans issue per se."

"I don't need a guy telling me what to do."

The exchange that spread the furthest came when Mauricio asked Mace, who has spoken publicly about surviving sexual assault, about her support for Trump:

Mauricio: You say you're a survivor of what? Were you a victim of sexual assault?

Mace: Yes.

Mauricio: So just to make sure that your values are consistent, then why did you stand behind a man that's been held civilly liable of sexually assaulting a woman in the dressing room of Bergdorf, a couple of decades ago?

Mace's first response was to accuse Mauricio of shaming: "I really wouldn't go about shaming women in this one." When he pressed, she said:

"and my political choices. I don't need a guy telling me what to do. Thank you."

Mauricio answered:

Mauricio: I'm just calling you out for being inconsistent and lying to the American people and using an issue that is non-existent... That's some sort of an excuse like every other beta male that beats up on and bullies women. That's bullshit. And it's disgusting.

Mace cited her support for a discharge petition as proof of her advocacy for survivors, and told Mauricio to "sit the fuck back down":

"I was one of four Republicans that... signed the discharge petition. It cost me my political career. So you might want to do a little more research on the work and advocacy that I've done for survivors like myself, and then maybe sit the fuck back down."

As the debate wrapped and the segment closed, Mace was audible on the published video telling Mauricio: "You are the most venomous son of a bitch I have ever sat across."

The man Mauricio referred to is Donald Trump. In 2023 a Manhattan jury found Trump liable in a civil suit brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll for sexually abusing her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s, and for defamation; a second jury awarded Carroll additional damages in 2024. The presiding judge later noted the jury's finding of "sexual abuse" reflected conduct many people commonly understand as rape. Trump has denied the allegations and has appealed. These are matters of public record; Maceopedia takes no position on any pending appeal and does not adjudicate the credibility of any party.

The edited clip

Maceopedia produced an edited, captioned commentary clip of the debate, "the cuss counter," which runs an on-screen tally that climbs to six as the profanity flies across the exchange (Mace accounts for most of it: bullshit, shit, ass, and the "sit the fuck back down" that closes the clip). Every line in the clip is verbatim and in chronological order; nothing is reordered.

Maceopedia commentary edit of Jubilee Media's "The Split." Source footage: Jubilee Media (YouTube). A vertical version runs as a Short and a Reel on the Maceopedia channels.

Context

Mace has made her own history as a survivor central to her public identity since her 2020 congressional campaign, and she has invoked it repeatedly in recent interviews to reframe questions about her support for Trump. In a September 7, 2026 uncut release of a separate interview, Mace accused journalist Tara Palmeri of "rape shaming" for a comparable question, and named the only Trump accuser she could think of as a "porn star" who "wasn't accusing him of rape." Maceopedia documented that exchange separately: "Mace Accused Tara Palmeri of 'Rape Shaming.'"

The pattern across the appearances is consistent and observable: when a question challenges the consistency of her positions, Mace tends to reframe it as an attack on her as a survivor, press the questioner's motives, or redirect, rather than engage the specific point. On "The Split," Mauricio said as much in his own words: "you were incapable of addressing any of the points that I made."

Sources & related coverage

• Jubilee Media, "Congresswoman Nancy Mace vs Liberal on Trans Athletes | The Split" (YouTube, September 6, 2026), primary source; full episode, Mace segment 18:55 to 37:03.
• David Mauricio (@reggiebblue), viral clip of the closing exchange on X (posted September 7, 2026; more than 519,000 views).
• @ThomasSowell repost of the same clip on X.
• Related Maceopedia coverage: "Mace Accused Tara Palmeri of 'Rape Shaming'" and "What Nancy Mace Believes About Rape".

This dispatch reports on-camera statements Mace made in a published debate about matters of public concern. Quotations are verbatim from Jubilee Media's published video, with profanity rendered as spoken. Named third parties deny wrongdoing where relevant, and matters of public record are noted as such. Maceopedia takes no position on any pending litigation and does not adjudicate the credibility of any party.