Myrtle Beach, SC – in an event announced as the “mother of all municipalities”, representative Nancy Mace, the last republican candidate for governor of South Carolina, said that “will discuss anyone” and “will go to the lion of the lion”, even when some who did not agree with her were asked to leave the place.
“I like the debate. I like to ask me difficult questions,” Mace told NBC News in an interview after the event, held in Ruby Red Horry County. “And you listened to me from the podium with the microphone, I really asked the Democrats to talk, ask your questions, because I do not fear any of the difficult questions. That is democracy, and that our country should be.”
But the crowd in the intimate coffee and ownership of veterans was friendly. Mace staff and volunteers delivered signs and campaign buttons at the door and asked several people who entered with signs and shirts that reflected their opposition to Mace, including someone who wore a “love is love” shirt, who left before their comments began.
Kathi Hunt and her husband, David, arrived at the scene, but told NBC News that they felt pressured to leave after not applauding or encouraging Mace during their comments. “I did not applaud and boo something, and the woman in front of me turned around and said: ‘What are you doing here?'” Said Kathi Hunt, independent.
David Hunt, who is a Democrat, said he had an “overwhelming sense” that would be expelled from the event for not applauding with the other attendees, so they left.
When asked about his team that he told the people who leave, Mace, who celebrated a town hall in his district in April, said he listened to some protesters inside the place calling her followers “a four -letter word, we see you next Tuesday”, but did not know that others were pressured to get out of coffee.
“I didn’t see that at all,” Mace said. “And if I had seen that an incident occurred, I would have stopped, I stopped and make sure that everything was Kosher and well, because the last thing I want someone to feel does not feel welcome.”
South Carolina Congresswoman said everyone has the right to attend their events, but intimidation and insults is where the line draws.
“Everyone has a right of the first amendment to be here. I will answer any questions. Republican, Democrat, independent, you can come to these events. They are public events, but what we are not going to do is have people who intimidate other people, who call them really horrible names, where people do not feel safe.”
Mace is no stranger to insults, repeatedly and without apologies using a derogatory term for transgender people in their online X account and in official committee hearings in the Capitol. He did not use the term during Wednesday’s event, but he focused overwhelmingly on the problems of cultural war, mainly attacking transgender Americans and promising to extract funds from schools and universities “that cannot define what a woman is.”
Speaking to NBC News after the event, Mace called herself “Trump in high heels” and promoted his close relationship with the president. He also said that he supports his management of Epstein archives that have caused a crack between the base, even after he voted in the House Supervision Committee last month to demand the Department of Justice to release the archives.
MACE said he will also sign a bipartisan effort to force a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives about the release of the archives when Congress returns in September. He pressed why the camera led by Republicans needs to force the hand of the Republican administration on the issue of Epstein, Mace said: “This is how democracy looks … This is how the camera works.”
“I am someone who has worked and fought very hard to protect women and children, and I will always,” Mace argued.
Mace did not say if he has confidence in Attorney General Pam Bondi, but says he has confidence “in the process.”
The strongest applause that Mace received all night was because of his promise to “ensure that children’s rapists get the death penalty.” She believes that is “reflecting Epstein’s problem” because there is a “kind of people who come out with their own,” he said.
“I know this as well as any other person, given the trauma I went through two years ago and seeing the way I was treated in the system,” he continued. “If they treated me that way, how are everyone else treated?”
In February, Mace delivered a speech on the 50 -minute floor accusing four men of rape, sex trafficking and other sexual crimes against her and other women. In the speech, he also accused Republican Attorney Alan Wilson, who is now one of his opponents in the governor race, to deliberately delay and not process men. An accusation that Wilson said is “categorically false.”
When asked why his campaign tour began in Myrtle Beach, Mace replied: “When it comes to magician voters, the conservative base, those who supported Donald Trump, is when you have the feeling of the vibes of where those voters are, is here, and are a bell for the rest of the state.”
“At this time, we are in a Republican primary, and that is why we are focused, and we will travel throughout the state, to all the counties they will have,” Mace said.
