mccarthy
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Dispatches
- October 11, 2023 · Dispatch
Mace wears scarlet-letter shirt: 'I will do the right thing every single time'
On October 11, 2023, one week after voting to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Mace wore a red 'A' T-shirt to Congress and described feeling demonized as a woman for her vote.
- October 5, 2023 · Dispatch
Mace tells CNN 'I have not been fundraising off of this', contradicted by her own timeline
On October 5, 2023, Mace denied fundraising immediately after McCarthy's ouster on CNN, but reporters had been tipped about a fundraising appeal she sent within one hour of the vote, the same behavior she had condemned in Matt Gaetz nine months earlier.
- October 3, 2023 · Dispatch
Mace explains McCarthy ouster vote: 'This isn't about left vs right. This is about trust and keeping your word.'
On October 3, 2023, Mace was one of eight Republicans to vote to remove Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker, citing his failure to keep his word on women's issues legislation and a balanced-budget amendment.
- October 3, 2023 · Dispatch
“When you shake my hand”, nine moments from Mace's McCarthy-ouster presser
A supercut of nine verbatim moments from Rep. Nancy Mace's press conference outside the Capitol on October 3, 2023, the day the House voted 216-210 to remove Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the first Speaker in U.S. history ousted by a motion to vacate. From her opening shot on broken promises to the chaos she warned McCarthy would leave behind.
- January 8, 2023 · Dispatch
Mace on congressional trust: 'If you want a friend you can trust, get a dog'
On January 8, 2023, Mace summed up the difficulty of trusting colleagues in Congress after the chaotic McCarthy speaker votes with a line that became widely quoted as a pithy summary of Washington dysfunction.
- January 8, 2023 · Dispatch
Mace calls Matt Gaetz 'a fraud' for fundraising off speaker votes, then does the same nine months later
On January 8, 2023, Mace attacked Rep. Matt Gaetz for sending fundraising emails after each vote against Kevin McCarthy for Speaker; nine months later, Mace sent her own fundraising appeals within an hour of voting to oust McCarthy herself.
Incidents
The scarlet letter 'A' (Oct. 2023)
On October 10, 2023, a week after voting to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Mace walked into a closed-door Speaker candidate forum wearing a white tank top printed with a large red letter 'A', her self-described 'scarlet letter', saying she would not be 'demonized' or shamed into silence for her vote.
October 10, 2023 · Incident