nancy mace
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Dispatches
- September 1, 2026 · Dispatch
Mace's Halloween Post: 'I'm Going To Dress Up As A Liberal White Woman'
On the morning of September 1, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace posted from her personal verified X account: 'For halloween this year, I'm going to dress up as a liberal white woman.' The line ran over a staged image of a figure draped head to toe in black, face fully covered, a gloved hand on a podcast microphone before the lit Capitol. It is not a one-off. It is the capstone of a documented month-long run of 'liberal white woman' material from Mace: a 'Get Maced' episode titled 'THE ENEMY WITHIN,' a Daily Wire op-ed under her byline calling liberal white women a 'national security threat,' and Facebook teasers. This dispatch shows the post and lays out the record; readers can judge it for themselves.
- September 1, 2026 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace's 'Get Maced' bump is already fading: the subscriber growth is decelerating, the typical episode is losing viewers, and her search interest is back to baseline
Two weeks after the tattoo-reveal spike that launched 'Get Maced,' the metrics that measure whether anyone is actually watching have turned down. Nancy Mace's subscriber growth has decelerated 41 percent, her typical episode has lost about 10 percent of its audience, and Google search interest in her name has fallen from its August peak back to single digits, all while she posts four nights a week. Her total-view count still rises, carried by a few outlier clips, and her subscriber tally still ratchets up. But the trend lines that measure real attention are cooling. If the pattern this site has documented holds, the open question is what she does next to pull the number back up.
- August 27, 2026 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace's Top 10 Most Viral Moments: the makeup-store meltdown, the tattoo reveal, and the eight spikes in between, by Google Trends
A ranked scoreboard of the ten moments that sent Nancy Mace's name up the Google Trends chart, from a cell-phone video of her cursing out a constituent in a makeup store to this month's tattoo reveal. Each moment is dated, sourced, scored by search interest, and shown with its own trend graph. The through-line: not one of the ten spikes is a law she passed.
- August 26, 2026 · Dispatch
Norman snubs Mace: no mention, no thank-you at all in his concession speech. She broke with Trump to endorse him.
Rep. Ralph Norman lost the South Carolina Republican U.S. Senate runoff to Sen. Darline Graham Nordone on August 25, 2026, and conceded in Rock Hill. In the roughly six-minute speech he thanked a dozen supporters and endorsers by name: Mark Sanford, Dan Bishop, Pat Harrigan, Rick Scott, Mike Lee, Nikki Haley, Adam Morgan, and more. One name never came up: Nancy Mace. Five weeks earlier, Mace broke publicly with President Trump to endorse Norman, calling him a warrior who 'doesn't bend, doesn't break, and doesn't back down,' and Norman had thanked her on camera and in writing as 'a fearless conservative fighter.' When it counted, on the night the race ended, he did not mention her once. We transcribed the full concession to confirm it: zero mentions of Mace.
- August 23, 2026 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace's Top 5 Political Failures: dead last for governor, the Speaker she toppled for nothing, and one law in nine years, a post office
A catalog of the record. Across nine years in office Nancy Mace built a national brand and almost no results to match it. She finished dead last, fifth of five, in the 2026 Republican primary for governor. She helped throw out a sitting Speaker of the House and got a more MAGA Speaker, three weeks of paralysis, and a revenge primary for her trouble. She lost to Lindsey Graham the one time she ran against him, in 2014, then talked herself out of his seat in 2026 after polling at 10 percent. Of the 192 bills she has sponsored, the only ones enacted rename post offices. And the Trump endorsement she remade her whole career to win went, twice, to her opponents. Every figure and quote below is public and dated.
- August 23, 2026 · Dispatch
Mace Won't Talk About Brian Musgrave, and He Isn't Even Under the Gag Order
A year ago this week, a federal judge ended Brian Musgrave's defamation case against Rep. Nancy Mace, not because her 'predator' accusation was found true, but because the court held she was immune. Eighteen months after she named the Fort Mill businessman from the House floor, there is still no criminal charge, no evidence produced, no retraction, and SLED has told him he is not a target. Musgrave was never a party to the case Mace is gagged in, and his own case is closed, so nothing bars her from answering for the accusation. She simply does not.
- August 22, 2026 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace says she is "now regretting" not running for the Senate. She finished fifth of five for governor, then ruled herself out of this very seat.
In an August 21, 2026 episode of her Facebook show 'Get Maced,' Rep. Nancy Mace watches a rival in the South Carolina U.S. Senate runoff and says, 'I'm now regretting I'm not running for the US Senate.' The line lands against her own recent record. Ten weeks earlier she finished fifth of five in the June 9 Republican gubernatorial primary with 12.1 percent. When Lindsey Graham's Senate seat then opened, she polled at 10 percent, tied for third, and on July 20 she publicly ruled herself out. This dispatch sets her on-camera regret next to the results and polling she is regretting.
- August 19, 2026 · Dispatch
Scalise and Haridopolos came to Charleston. Honeycutt's public thank-you named them, Biggs, Wilkins, and CHBA, but not Mace.
Jenny Costa Honeycutt's public Facebook post says she welcomed House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Rep. Mike Haridopolos to Charleston, then joined them at Rep. Sheri Biggs' Salute to Liberty and addressed CHBA's legislative barbecue. The post names several Republicans and local stops. It does not mention Nancy Mace, whose SC-01 district includes Charleston.
- August 18, 2026 · Dispatch
Mace wants a bill to ban staff from living with members. Her own staff say they lived with her.
On August 17, 2026, Sources Say News, the Capitol Hill outlet founded by reporter Juliegrace Brufke, reported that Rep. Nancy Mace's new push to bar House members from living with their staff runs into her own history. Mace introduced two resolutions on July 30, 2026, H.Res.1465 (no sexual relationships with House employees) and H.Res.1466 (no cohabitating with House employees, married couples excepted), pitching them with the line 'a boss and a roommate should never be the same person.' Multiple former Mace aides told the outlet that a senior campaign aide lived in an apartment above the garage at her Daniel Island home during her first campaign, and that in spring 2022 a senior aide was put up in the basement of her D.C. townhouse, sleeping behind a curtain a few feet from where Mace made her morning coffee. Mace's office flatly denies she ever lived with staff or maintained a 'crash pad,' and one source and a bill proponent draw a distinction between a short platonic stay in a separate space and living with a staffer.
- August 11, 2026 · Dispatch
'She was asked not to speak': Nancy Mace attends the renaming of the base in her own district, but never takes the podium
On Monday, August 10, 2026, Joint Base Charleston in North Charleston was ceremonially renamed Joint Base Lindsey Graham in honor of the late senator, who died July 11. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Gov. Henry McMaster, Sen. Darline Graham Nordone, and base commander Col. K. Michael Shirley II all spoke. Rep. Nancy Mace, whose SC-01 district includes the base and who has repeatedly claimed credit for its federal funding, attended the ceremony but had no speaking role and was not quoted by any outlet covering it. According to a current staff member, Mace was asked not to speak. She had skipped Graham's funeral on July 28, declined to run for his Senate seat, and endorsed Ralph Norman over Trump's pick, Graham's sister Darline, who spoke at the podium Mace did not.
- July 30, 2026 · Dispatch
'Advice, tips, hacks?': Mace's 'week 4' carnivore post is the newest chapter in two years of public posts about her weight, her hair, and PTSD
On July 30, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace, a sitting member of Congress and announced candidate for South Carolina governor, asked her X followers for 'advice, tips, hacks' on the carnivore diet, 'heading into week 4.' The post drew more than 200 replies, many asking why a member of Congress was crowdsourcing meal-plan tips. It was not the first time. Since November 2024, Mace has posted repeatedly and publicly about her body: a roughly 30-pound weight loss she attributes to PTSD, a 110-pound frame, 'about half my hair' lost to what she called PTSD-driven stress, and a viral post about eating beans after an election loss. This dispatch collects those public posts, in her own words, with screenshots of each.
- July 20, 2026 · Dispatch
"South Carolina, I'm in": Russell Fry becomes the fourth Republican to enter the race for Lindsey Graham's Senate seat
Rep. Russell Fry (SC-7) announced a bid for the U.S. Senate on X at 8:01 a.m. ET on July 20, 2026, becoming the fourth declared Republican in the special election for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's seat, joining Mark Lynch, Duke Buckner, and Rep. Ralph Norman. Fry, 41, unseated five-term incumbent Tom Rice in a 2022 primary after Rice voted to impeach President Trump; Trump has praised Fry as 'outstanding' but has not endorsed him, having already backed interim Sen. Darline Graham Nordone. Candidate filing does not open until noon Tuesday, July 21, so none of the four declared candidates, or anyone else, has filed yet. About an hour after Fry declared, Rep. Nancy Mace posted an objection to dual candidacies, writing that 'if you're running for two offices at once, you've already told us who you are' and that she 'will never hand Hakeem Jeffries that gift.' She named no one, but on the facts as they stand only Fry fits: he won his SC-7 primary on June 9 and is already the Republican nominee for that seat, so he would appear on the November ballot for both offices, while Norman did not file for House reelection after running for governor. Mace has still not announced a decision of her own.
- July 19, 2026 · Dispatch
"Which version of Nancy Mace will we get?": a nonbinary creator turns Mace's Senate flirtation into a software-update bit
On July 19, 2026, the YouTube and TikTok creator who posts as @defenestrans published an 85-second Short arguing that Nancy Mace's politics track her audience rather than her convictions, staged as a running joke about software updates. 'Nancy Mace has successfully upgraded to MAGA 5.0,' the host says, before running through 'Factory settings Nancy, District 1 Nancy, Governor's race Nancy, Senate DLC Nancy' and closing: 'I think she just has auto update on, and somehow every new version has more bugs than the last.' Two factual claims in the clip check out: Mace finished fifth in the June 9 Republican gubernatorial primary with 12.1 percent, and she has said on the record she will look at Lindsey Graham's Senate seat. The characterizations are the creator's own; Mace has not responded to the video.
- July 17, 2026 · Dispatch
Trump endorses Lindsey Graham's sister for a full Senate term, and puts Nancy Mace's decision in a harder box
President Trump endorsed Sen. Darline Graham Nordone for a full six-year term on July 17, 2026, the same day Axios reported that Rep. Nancy Mace is still considering a Senate bid despite the endorsement. The move closes the appointment lane Mace had been eyeing and forces a choice: run against Trump's chosen candidate in a primary where she trails at 10 percent, or stand down. This dispatch catalogs the full timeline, from Mace's 'I would be an idiot not to at least look at it' media tour on July 12, to her team's viability polling, to the Emerson poll showing her tied for third at 10 percent, to Trump's endorsement of Graham's sister.
- July 16, 2026 · Dispatch
First poll after Graham's death puts Nancy Mace at 10 percent, tied for third, as pollster says 'no candidate begins as a clear favorite'
The first poll taken after Sen. Lindsey Graham's death, an Emerson College Polling survey for Nexstar Media fielded July 14 to 15, found no clear front-runner in the Republican scramble for his South Carolina Senate seat. Rep. Nancy Mace drew 10 percent, tied for third with Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and behind Rep. Ralph Norman (16 percent) and businessman Mark Lynch (13 percent). No candidate reached 20 percent, and 'undecided' led the entire field at 18 percent.
- July 14, 2026 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace Answers Boosie Badazz After Her Name Surfaces in a $600,000 Pardon-Scam Claim
A NOTUS investigation published July 13, 2026 reported that rapper Boosie Badazz paid Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman about $600,000 on the promise of a presidential pardon, and that Wohl invoked a list of MAGA-aligned names, including Nancy Mace, as having endorsed the effort. Most named figures denied involvement or stayed silent, and Mace's office declined to comment to NOTUS. A day later, when Boosie publicly called out the same names on X, Mace was the one who replied and offered to connect him with her office staff.
- July 13, 2026 · Dispatch
Prediction Markets Put Nancy Mace Near the Floor in the Graham-Seat Scramble
Across Kalshi, Polymarket, Manifold, and PredictIt snapshots checked July 13, Nancy Mace was priced as a long-shot in the South Carolina Senate special-election scramble, ranging from tiny fractions of a percent on Polymarket to 3 cents on Kalshi and roughly 1.4 percent on Manifold. PredictIt showed 10 cents, but its stale order book made that a weak signal rather than a clean consensus.
- June 7, 2026 · Dispatch
Kevin McCarthy says Mace was not in the running for Trump's endorsement
On Fox News' Sunday Night in America, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy rejected the premise that Donald Trump had snubbed Nancy Mace by endorsing another candidate in South Carolina's 2026 Republican gubernatorial primary. McCarthy told Trey Gowdy that Trump had been looking at the attorney general and lieutenant governor, criticized Mace's truthfulness, placed her around fifth, and said she was not in the running for the endorsement. Fox later posted the clip behind its FOX One subscription roadblock, and Internet Archive's TV News capture preserves the broadcast transcript around 6:19-6:20 p.m. PDT.
- February 2, 2026 · Dispatch
Opposing Counsel Tells Court Mace's Motion Is 'Intended to Delay This Litigation, Harass Plaintiff, Its Members, and Agents'
In a February 2026 court filing, ADW's counsel Rene Dukes argued that Rep. Nancy Mace had no legal standing to intervene in the ADW v. Berg breach-of-contract case and that her motion was frivolous, filed solely to harass and delay. Dukes also noted that Mace's filing invoked her own congressional floor speech, in which she had named private citizens who are members of the plaintiff.
- May 23, 2025 · Dispatch
Post & Courier front page: Mace strategist testified she asked him to 'blackmail' her former fiancé
On May 23, 2025, The Post and Courier's front-page lead reported sworn deposition testimony by Rep. Nancy Mace's former campaign strategist, Wesley Donehue, who said the congresswoman asked him to blackmail her former fiancé over two jointly held homes. Mace's office disputed the characterization 'blackmail.'
Wiki & people
The 2026 South Carolina Senate Special Election
Sen. Lindsey Graham died on July 11, 2026, opening a U.S. Senate seat that South Carolina will fill in a special election. Gov. Henry McMaster appointed Graham's sister, Darline Graham Nordone, as interim senator; President Trump has endorsed her for the full term. Candidate filing opens July 21 and closes July 28. Four Republicans have declared: Mark Lynch, Duke Buckner, Rep. Ralph Norman, and Rep. Russell Fry. Rep. Nancy Mace has not declared and is not on the November ballot; she ran for governor instead of seeking reelection and lost the June 9 Republican primary. This hub tracks the filing calendar, the declared field, published polling, and Mace's own dated statements as the story develops.
July 20, 2026 · Wiki
Donald Trump
The 45th and 47th U.S. President, whose on-again, off-again relationship with Nancy Mace (from 2016 campaign staffer, through her January 6 break and his 'crazy Nancy Mace' attacks, to her self-branding as 'Trump in high heels' and his 2026 snub) runs the length of her political career.
June 11, 2026 · Wiki
Katie Arrington
Former South Carolina state representative, two-time SC-01 congressional candidate, and Department of Defense cybersecurity official, twice the Trump-endorsed standard-bearer against Mark Sanford (2018) and Nancy Mace (2022).
June 11, 2026 · Wiki
Alan Wilson
South Carolina Attorney General and 2026 Republican gubernatorial candidate whose campaign was defined by a prolonged public feud with rival Nancy Mace.
June 10, 2026 · Wiki
James Emory Mace
Brigadier General James Emory Mace (1940-2026), Nancy Mace's father: a Vietnam War hero and Distinguished Service Cross recipient, The Citadel's most decorated living graduate, and its Commandant of Cadets during his daughter's years as its first female cadet. He is the towering figure of her memoir and her public self-image.
April 14, 2026 · Wiki
Elliott Summey
President and CEO of the Charleston County Aviation Authority and Charleston International Airport, whom Nancy Mace publicly blamed for releasing footage of the October 2025 confrontation and whose resignation she demanded.
December 10, 2025 · Wiki
Larry Klayman
Conservative attorney and founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch whom Nancy Mace retained to pursue threatened defamation claims arising from the October 2025 Charleston airport confrontation.
December 10, 2025 · Wiki
Lindsey Graham
Senior U.S. Senator from South Carolina who backed Tim Scott's rebuke of Nancy Mace following the October 2025 Charleston airport confrontation.
December 10, 2025 · Wiki
Tim Scott
U.S. Senator from South Carolina who publicly rebuked Nancy Mace after she invoked his name during the October 2025 Charleston airport confrontation.
December 10, 2025 · Wiki
Barrett Brewer
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina civil litigator who represented Patrick Bryant and whom U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace publicly criticized by name in 2025, accusing him of weaponizing the legal system.
October 10, 2025 · Wiki
James Gosnell
James B. Gosnell Jr. is a long-serving Charleston County, South Carolina magistrate judge who, weeks after Rep. Nancy Mace publicly praised his ruling in a case central to her, was arrested on federal child sexual abuse material charges and suspended from the bench.
August 20, 2025 · Wiki
Scarlett Wilson
Scarlett Wilson is the elected Ninth Judicial Circuit Solicitor for Charleston and Berkeley Counties, South Carolina. Beginning in June 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace publicly accused Wilson, the chief prosecutor whose circuit would handle the cases arising from Mace's own allegations, of leaking evidence and 'obstruct[ing] the investigation,' and demanded she recuse, be removed from all domestic-violence prosecutions, and face a state investigation. Wilson denied wrongdoing; reporters found Mace's office offered no supporting evidence.
August 18, 2025 · Wiki
Pam Evette
South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in 2026, became a primary rival to Nancy Mace marked by pointed public exchanges.
June 12, 2025 · Wiki
Wesley Donehue
Wesley Donehue is a South Carolina Republican digital strategist who, in sworn deposition testimony made public in May 2025, stated that Rep. Nancy Mace asked him to help pressure her former fiancé using private images to obtain property; Mace's office publicly disputed the characterization.
May 21, 2025 · Wiki
Ely Murray-Quick
Charleston, South Carolina realtor and constituent who approached Rep. Nancy Mace at a Mount Pleasant Ulta Beauty store on April 19, 2025, to ask about town halls; Mace's filmed expletive-laden response went viral.
April 19, 2025 · Wiki
Brian Musgrave
South Carolina private citizen publicly named by Rep. Nancy Mace in a February 2025 House floor speech alleging sexual misconduct; Musgrave denied all allegations and subsequently sued Mace for defamation.
February 10, 2025 · Wiki
John Osborne
Charleston-area venture capitalist publicly named by Rep. Nancy Mace in a February 2025 House floor speech, and on a 'predators' poster displayed in the Capitol, in connection with alleged sexual misconduct; Osborne denied all allegations, and no criminal charges have been filed.
February 10, 2025 · Wiki
Curtis Jackson
Curtis Jackson is the former husband of U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace and the father of their two children. The couple married in 2004 and divorced in 2019, and public records and her own posts show they co-parent. Mace has frequently described herself publicly as a 'single mom,' while, as FITSNews reported, the details of the post-divorce parenting arrangement were never publicly disclosed.
July 17, 2024 · Wiki