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Mace on CNN: releasing the Epstein files was "a price I am unwilling to pay" for an endorsement
On CNN on June 7, 2026, days before the South Carolina governor primary, Mace said that if Trump's endorsement required her not to vote to release the Epstein files, it was "a price I am unwilling to pay."
On CNN on June 7, 2026, two days before the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, Mace addressed the endorsement she did not receive from President Trump:
"If the price of an endorsement was to not vote to release the Epstein files, that is a price I am unwilling to pay."
The interview came after Trump had endorsed Lt. Gov. Pam Evette in late May, a move Mace had publicly attributed to her vote the previous November to release the Epstein files. Mace was polling in the mid-teens heading into primary day.
Source: CNN
