Mace, who last year beat a Trump-backed candidate in a primary, is constantly pivoting as she figures out how to play a meaningful role as a mainstream Republican in today’s MAGA-heavy House GOP. Nancy Mace is not your typical House Republican:
American politician, 55th Speaker of the United States House of RepresentativesRep. Nancy Mace visits a fire department in Summerville, S.C., May 3, 2023.
Mace, who last year beat a Trump-backed candidate in a primary, is constantly pivoting as she figures out how to survive and play a meaningful role as a mainstream Republican in today’s MAGA-heavy House GOP, where extreme members of the party have greater power than ever.She often styles herself as a maverick independent in the mold of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.
“Who do you think you’re kidding?” she said. “The only thing people want to see of me and Marjorie is if we’re wrestling in Jell-O.” “Every handshake I’ve taken with Kevin has been legit,” she said of the speaker. “I haven’t gotten rolled. If I were to get rolled, I’d go nuclear. I’m just trying to move the ball in the right direction — that’s what matters to me.
“Signing a six-week ban that puts women who are victims of rape and girls who are victims of incest in a hard spot isn’t the way to change hearts and minds,” Mace said last month on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” responding to a new six-week abortion ban instituted by Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. “It’s not compassionate.”But Mace has also co-sponsored legislation that would ban transgender women and girls from participating in athletic programs designated for women.
She worked for Trump’s 2016 campaign, but after she broke sharply with him after the Jan. 6 attack, the former president called her “nasty” and “disloyal.” He supported her opponent in last year’s Republican primary, in which he savaged Mace for fighting with her own party and said she was “despised by almost everyone.”
In a party shaped by extremists who view the middle ground with disdain, the day-to-day can be pretty “lonely,” she said, noting that she has few friends on Capitol Hill. She got a dog during the pandemic, a Havanese named Liberty, and started carrying a gun at all times when threats against her increased after she voted to certify the election. She said that only “emboldens me,” as does the fact that she’s not the popular girl at the lunch table. She calls herself “a caucus of one.
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