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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Nancy Mace- 2022 Update [1]
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Date: 2022-12-31
U.S. House Rep. Nancy Mace, of South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, whose principles can blow over in a light breeze.
On this date in 2016, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, "Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day" profiled Nancy Mace, a challenger in the 2014 U.S. Senate Primary in South Carolina to Senator Lindsey Graham for his seat in Washington, D.C, choosing to be the first candidate in that race to attack Lindsay Graham for admitting climate change exists, and tried claiming that a “recent freeze” disproves the phenomenon. Factor in also, that Nancy Mace’s background in South Carolina politics comes from being the co-owner of FITSNews, a “news” outlet in South Carolina best known perhaps for, while under Mace’s Leadership, leading a smear campaign in 2010 against gubernatorial candidate (and future South Carolina Governor) Nikki Haley, insisting that she had taken part in a series of extramarital affairs. Of course, that sort of tactic wouldn’t work against a lifetime bachelor like Lindsey Graham, so we were spared a repeat of that sort of seedy attack from Mace. No, instead she was one of a pair of primary candidates who decided to gay-bait Graham. While Mace reblogged a post from a supporter that called the Senator a “nancy boy”, at least she didn’t go as far as Dave Feliciano, who said that Graham is “ambigiously gay".
After a few years of laying low… Nancy Mace, and she opted to run for an office slightly less elevated than the U.S. Senate, winning a seat in the South Carolina House of Representatives in 2018, to represent District 99 in that body. In that year, the Blue Wave actually helped Democrat Joe Cunningham flip South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District in Congress, after he defeated Katie Arrington in the general election for the right to replace “the Love Gov” Mark Sanford. As such, SC-1 is one of the seats that Republicans were most determined to flip back red, what with its partisan lean supposedly being +10 Republican.
And, of course Nancy Mace wasn’t content to simply remain a state legislator and build up her credibility… she ran for that seat in the U.S. House instead, jumping into a GOP Primary field with 3 other Republicans for the chance at it. She was first in fundraising, thus was the front-runner. That allowed Mace to narrowly defeat Joe Cunningham with just 50.6% of the vote. She went to Washington, D.C., wielding her new title as the latest of the Republican “Young Guns” (they had some of those 10 years ago who all ended up resigning in disgrace or in jail, you’ll recall) to oppose any and all sane legislation in the House. Some of her low-lights:
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