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The South Carolina congresswoman finished fifth in the state\u2019s GOP gubernatorial primary, according to unofficial returns, solidly losing even her own home county and district.<\/strong><\/p>

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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) speaks to reporters while departing March 3 congressional briefing on Iran. (Bloomberg\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Rep. Nancy Mace\u2019s trouncing in Tuesday\u2019s South Carolina gubernatorial primary dealt a blunt <\/b>defeat to a once rising GOP star, a politician who had basked in national attention during her dramatic political transformation.<\/p>\n

Mace had real political talent and promise, <\/b>but her downfall and isolation followed years of brazen political opportunism, a hunger for media attention at any cost, rejecting advisers\u2019 counsel and turning on many <\/b>allies, more than a dozen former aides, colleagues and supporters in both South Carolina and Washington said in interviews.<\/p>\n

She finished fifth in the contest, according to unofficial returns<\/a>, <\/b>solidly losing even her own home county and district.<\/p>\n

Mace arrived in Congress after flipping a Charleston-area district in 2020 and built a reputation as a moderate who appealed to swing voters. <\/b>She voted to codify<\/a> same-sex marriage rights, called herself \u201cpro transgender rights\u201d and urged <\/b>her party to \u201cmeet in the middle\u201d<\/a> with Democrats on abortion. By last year, Mace had begun repeatedly mocking transgender people as \u201ctrannies\u201d and disparaged gay relationships on social media. In recent days, Mace suggested a Republican opponent in the governor\u2019s race came from \u201ca slum in India.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump embraces Mace as he arrives to address a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Her relationship with President Donald Trump was similarly mercurial. She distanced herself from him soon after taking office, survived his attempt to oust her in 2022, rebranded herself as a MAGA warrior, defied Trump on the Epstein files and sought his endorsement in the governor\u2019s race, only to watch him back a rival. No high-profile Republican endorsed her campaign.<\/p>\n

The spectacle of Mace\u2019s transformation often unfolded on the cameras she gravitated toward in television interviews, selfie videos posted on social media and dramatic exchanges in committee hearings. Her public appearances grew increasingly combative and bizarre.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing I hope is she gets the help she needs,\u201d former Republican <\/b>House speaker Kevin McCarthy told The Washington Post, saying he watched as her \u201cpolitical and personal life unraveled\u201d in recent years.<\/p>\n

Mace, whom McCarthy had helped unseat Democrat Joe Cunningham in 2020, cast an unexpected vote for his ouster as speaker in 2023, joining right-wing hard-liners and Democrats as she abruptly turned on him. She later <\/b>walked around the Capitol wearing a <\/b>large scarlet \u201cA\u201d<\/a> on her shirt, because she said she had been \u201cdemonized\u201d for that vote.<\/p>\n

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Mace arrives at a House Republican meeting wearing a scarlet letter representing what she described as backlash to her vote to oust the speaker. (Matt McClain\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cI helped her win. But I just watched her change along the way,\u201d said McCarthy, who supported an unsuccessful primary challenge to Mace in 2024. \u201cSome people warned when she was an early candidate, \u2018Watch out, she\u2019s not all there.\u2019 I didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former staff said Mace embraced stories about her being a \u201ccaucus of one\u201d <\/a>on a \u201clonely political island.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Mace and her campaign did not return requests for comment. She previously accused<\/a> her former staff of mismanaging money and spying on her, and has dismissed criticism<\/a> that she is overly focused on getting attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will always be grateful for the people of South Carolina who trusted me, fought with me, and refused to look the other way,\u201d Mace posted on social media <\/a>after her loss Tuesday evening. \u201cThis isn\u2019t the end of the fight. It\u2019s just the end of this chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mace <\/b>raised eyebrows in Washington year after year for drawing attention to herself, such as wearing an arm sling after accusing a foster care activist of \u201ctrans violence\u201d during a handshake \u2014 having him arrested on assault charges only for prosecutors to drop the case. Her behavior in the months preceding her gubernatorial run became even more confounding to those observing it.<\/p>\n

In the throes of her split from her ex-fianc\u00e9, Mace in February 2025 spoke on the House floor for nearly an hour, accusing him<\/a> and three other men of rape and other sex crimes, which the men denied. During a congressional hearing on surveillance months later, she showed a \u201cnaked silhouette\u201d photo of herself, saying it was taken without her consent.<\/p>\n

In April 2025, Mace posted a video she took at a makeup store where she repeatedly <\/b>cursed out a constituent who asked when she planned to host her next town hall.<\/p>\n

A week and a half later, Mace confronted her nephew John Mace McGrath as he sat next to local elected officials during Vice President JD Vance\u2018s visit to a steel plant in Huger, South Carolina. She stood over him and pointed her finger in his face as she upbraided him for accepting an endorsement in a local party chairman race from state Attorney General Alan Wilson, whom she had also criticized during her lengthy House floor speech and would later run against her for governor.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou f—ed up taking Alan\u2019s endorsement, and you\u2019re going to pay for that someday,\u201d Mace said to the 26-year-old, according to two people who witnessed the May 1, 2025, <\/b>scene, which has not previously been reported. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity, saying they did not want to attract any additional wrath from Mace.<\/p>\n

After conceding Tuesday, Mace endorsed Wilson in the gubernatorial runoff, despite repeatedly accusing him<\/a> in the last year of being a \u201cpedophile protector.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The highest-profile eruption took place <\/b>in October, when officials at Charleston airport reported<\/a> that Mace had berated airport staff and police after a misunderstanding about her security escort preferences. A police report of the encounter described an expletive-laced tirade where she called airport police \u201cF—ing incompetent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mace is seen speaking with an officer during the confrontation at the Charleston International Airport. (Charleston Regional Aviation Authority)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Dozens of local elected officials in her district signed a letter condemning her behavior, and <\/b>the state\u2019s Republican senators, Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham, criticized her actions. Mace refused to apologize, threatening to sue the airport for defamation and claiming the incident report had been \u201cfabricated.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople can say she\u2019s crazy, but they\u2019re still talking about her,\u201d said Austin McCubbin, Mace\u2019s former political adviser who resigned in December after disagreements about campaign decisions and compensation. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of one of those things where just so long as you spell my name correctly, that\u2019s all that matters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Days after the former state lawmaker entered Congress, Mace criticized Trump in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, saying she did not believe he had a future in the Republican Party.<\/p>

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As the insurrection unfolded, Mace told aides she wanted to go out and get punched by rioters \u201cso she could get on TV,\u201d Natalie Johnson, her communications director at the time, told The Post. But Mace months later decided to pare back criticisms of Trump after a poll she commissioned showed <\/b>they were unpopular in her district, Johnson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know of anybody who puts their finger in the wind and tries to see which way it\u2019s blowing more than Nancy Mace,\u201d said Justin Evans, a longtime GOP political operative in the state who supported her state House run and now works for Pam Evette, the Trump-endorsed candidate who placed <\/b>first in Tuesday\u2019s gubernatorial primary. \u201cShe was a good-looking, talented communicator, had the social media following, had all the ingredients that a successful candidate should have. It\u2019s just her moral compass was completely missing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mace walks with a dog through Statuary Hall near the House chamber on July 5. (Tom Brenner\/For The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Soon after entering office, Mace had shown herself to be a powerful force in politics who told a compelling backstory. A rape survivor at 16 and high school dropout who once worked as a Waffle House waitress, she became the first woman to graduate from The Citadel.<\/p>\n

CJ Westfall, chairman of the Dorchester County Republican Party who worked on Mace\u2019s 2022 <\/b>general election campaign, described her as inspiring and hardworking. He credited her win that year to Republicans believing she was an \u201cindependent voice,\u201d despite Trump\u2019s opposition.<\/p>\n

Since then, Westfall said her penchant for drama became clear and described her as a \u201ccrybully\u201d who liked to provoke controversy and then \u201cplay the victim\u201d when someone pushed back.<\/p>\n

After her defeat, Mace said she challenged the powerful even if it cost her politically.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery vote I cast, every hearing I called, every fight I picked \u2014 it was always for you,\u201d she wrote in a social media post. \u201cI\u2019ve seen what happens when good people stay quiet. And I\u2019ve seen what happens when they don\u2019t. I would choose the latter every single time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soon after Mace\u2019s vote to oust McCarthy in fall 2023, Rep. Don Bacon (R-Nebraska) greeted several of Mace\u2019s congressional staff eating lunch at the Rayburn cafeteria and asked who they worked for. <\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI used to really like her,\u201d Bacon replied. \u201cNot anymore. We can\u2019t work with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

He told The Post he got along with her during her early time in the House, but her vote to push the speaker out \u201cwas a tough pill for many of us to swallow.\u201d<\/p>\n

At times, Mace allied with liberal Democrats including <\/b>Reps. Ro Khanna of California and Jamie Raskin of Maryland.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe would interact with Democrats in a way very few Republicans do, because she has sided with victims of sexual violence and sexual harassment,\u201d Raskin said. \u201cA lot of the people on the GOP side want to quickly brush those subjects under the rug, and Nancy, in her more freethinking, uninhibited moments, is willing to side with Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mace and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) arrive for a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing in 2023. (Tom Williams\/CQ-Roll Call, Inc\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Mace and Khanna, who had founded a joint caucus focusing on affordable child care, largely stopped their joint appearances after Mace fixated on transgender people. <\/b>Mace introduced a resolution to ban transgender women from using women\u2019s restrooms in the Capitol, in response to the 2024 election of Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Delaware) as the first openly transgender member.<\/p>\n

Mace, however, signed on to a successful petition last year by Khanna and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) to release federal investigation files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n

She said she wanted justice for Epstein\u2019s victims, even though Trump initially opposed the release of the files. But Mace\u2019s decision <\/b>surprised her own dwindling team of aides because <\/b>she was bent on getting the president\u2019s endorsement for her gubernatorial run.<\/p>\n

A few days before Mace announced her run for governor in August 2025, she tried calling Trump to give him a heads-up. She left a voicemail for the president, who later texted her with well wishes, according to a person familiar with their communication who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. <\/b>But Mace panicked when <\/b>Trump also passed along two polls that showed her struggling in a hypothetical race. Mace commissioned her own poll days later that showed her leading the field <\/b>and with the highest name recognition.<\/p>\n

Mace sent the poll to the president, who then posted it to Truth Social<\/a> that month without comment \u2014 which political operatives said lent credibility to her <\/b>nascent campaign.<\/p>\n

In the final days of the race, Mace repeatedly said <\/b>her support for releasing the Epstein files was the reason Trump did not endorse her. The president did not publicly criticize her for supporting the effort.<\/p>\n

Mace\u2019s congressional office frequently shed staff, <\/b>some of whom she forced out, while others resigned citing difficult work conditions. At one point, in a three-month span<\/a> after her McCarthy vote, her entire nine-member staff had turned over.<\/p>\n

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Mace during a staff meeting at her congressional office on April 25, 2023. (Ricky Carioti\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

Mace also struggled to maintain political allies. She spoke of her love for former governor Nikki Haley, who backed Mace in the difficult 2022 reelection primary. But Mace went silent the next year when Haley sought her endorsement in her 2024 presidential run, and proceeded to blast Haley while campaigning for Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think Nancy Mace has ever seen a bridge in her life that she hasn\u2019t burned down,\u201d said Will Hampson, one of her former communications directors.<\/p>\n

Hampson said his former boss was self aware that she was on an island. But he\u2019s not sure if she recognizes she put herself there.<\/p>

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\u201cShe was her own best weapon,\u201d he said, \u201cand own worst enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Erin Cox contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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