He Asked Nancy Mace About Town Halls. 54 Seconds Later, She Cursed at Him
The Man in the Store, a narrated documentary built from both phone videos of the April 19, 2025 argument at an Ulta Beauty in Mount Pleasant, S.C. Ely Murray-Quick asked Rep. Nancy Mace whether she would hold more town halls. Fifty-four seconds after he repeated the question, she cursed at him on camera. ABC News 4 and CNN report that both used profanity. Mace says she felt threatened and harassed; Murray-Quick says he stayed at least eight feet away and that there was no aggression. Three days later she told ABC News 4 her first in-person town hall of the year was the next day.
"Are you doing any more this year?"
Ely Murray-Quick asked Rep. Nancy Mace that question in an Ulta Beauty in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, on Saturday, April 19, 2025. It is on her own phone video. Fifty-four seconds after he repeats it, she says "F*** you." on camera. ABC News 4 and CNN report that both used profanity. Mace says she felt threatened and harassed. Murray-Quick says he stayed at least eight feet away and that there was no aggression. Both accounts are here, in their own words.
Credits: this film is cut from public video only. Mace's own video and her April 21 video, posted to her X account; Ely Murray-Quick's phone footage, as CNN aired it with his interview with Laura Coates; Fox News, Hannity; ABC News 4 (WCIV), Claire Weber's report and the full interview; and Live 5 News (WCSC), Michael Higdon. All footage belongs to the people and outlets credited.
The full narrated film is on the Maceopedia YouTube channel; the short cut plays below. The narration is an AI-generated voice reading a script written and checked by Maceopedia. It never speaks for anyone: every quote plays in the speaker's own voice, or on screen as it was posted.
The short cut of the documentary. Every frame is real footage, credited on screen. Captions are verbatim; profanity is masked on screen only.
The question
Murray-Quick's account to ABC News 4 of how it started:
"The first question I actually asked was, Nancy, and she said yes. And then I asked her, when do you plan on hosting a real town hall for the people? That was one question."
His phone video, as CNN aired it, picks up with Mace answering: "Did you miss the 15 I had last year?" He asks: "When are you going to host one this year?" She answers: "I've already had one, and we'll have a dozen more."
Her camera
Mace's own video, which she posted to X that evening, starts a moment later. The film plays it from its first words to its last. In it she says: "I've already done one. I'll do plenty more." He asks: "Are you doing any more this year?" and "It was a simple question." She says: "You're always invited." Then: "And by the way, I voted for gay marriage twice." He asks: "What does that have to do with me?" Asked whether everything about him has to do with gay marriage, she answers: "I do, absolutely."
Within the next minute she says: "Because you people on the left are crazy," then "And get out of my, get out of my face," then "F*** you." His repeated question ends at 14.75 seconds of her video; her "F*** you." starts at 69.14 seconds. That is the 54 seconds in the title, with 15 of her lines in between. He then says: "You're a disgrace to the state," and "I asked you a simple question and you just go on this tirade and tell me f*** you."
Her post
That evening Mace posted the video to X. The post, as last edited:
Rep. Nancy Mace's post on X, status 1913723311386952073, April 19, 2025, 6:36 PM ET, as last edited.
"Some unhinged lunatic, a man, wearing daisy dukes, at a makeup store, got in my face today. Dems are nuts. So I went off - and I won't be backing down. I hold the line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Try me."
Two minutes later she added: "I just wanted some face wash on my afternoon off lol"
Her account
On Fox News, with Sean Hannity, April 21, 2025:
"Well, right, I just wanted some face wash. That was it. I went to the store... And this guy approached me. And I will tell you, I felt threatened. I felt harassed."
To ABC News 4, April 22, 2025:
"If a woman is standing there alone and she feels threatened and the man is being aggressive with her the man should respect the woman and take a step back a real man protects women and this guy's he's not a real man."
Asked whether she felt physically threatened: "Absolutely, I felt threatened. And you can see in part of the video, he leans in." And: "I'm not gonna shrink not gonna be shamed for using a four-letter word I curse and that's that is the cost of doing business if you want to be aggressive and harass me you can deal with it."
In her own video on X, April 21, 2025: "It's not the first time I've ever used language with people before, and it certainly won't be the last. You don't have the right to harassment... if you want to get in my face, expect it right back and I will record you, and I will make you famous."
His account
To CNN's Laura Coates:
"I asked a simple question. Nancy Mace was not held in this aisle. She had a clear out of this aisle. I was at least eight feet away from her at all times. There was no aggression, there was no harassment."
To ABC News 4: "I'm not the one running for election. I'm not the one holding this high seat... I am an average citizen."
On X, April 21, 2025:
"I asked for a town hall, you threw a tantrum in Ulta. If my daisy dukes rattled you that much, maybe public office just isn't in your size. Still waiting for my town hall invite."
Three days later
In the store, Mace was asked whether she would host more town halls that year. She said she had already done one and would do plenty more. On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, ABC News 4 asked her how many in-person town halls she had held in 2025 so far:
"Tomorrow will be our first one. I've already had one telephone town hall. We had thousands of people on."
No court or agency has made any finding about the encounter. The two phone videos are public; watch both and judge for yourself.
CNN's report, with Murray-Quick's own footage and his interview with Laura Coates.
ABC News 4's full interview with Mace, April 22, 2025.
Sources & related coverage
- Nancy Mace on X: her video and post, "face wash", her April 21 video
- Ely Murray-Quick on X: his reply
- CNN, with Ely Murray-Quick's footage: Voter confronts Rep. Nancy Mace in store
- Fox News, Hannity: interview with Nancy Mace, April 21, 2025
- ABC News 4 (WCIV), Claire Weber: the report and the full interview
- Live 5 News (WCSC), Michael Higdon: the report
- The Post and Courier: the cursing episode goes viral
- The Advocate: Murray-Quick speaks out
- Maceopedia: the first documentary cut, the original dispatch, the incident page, Ely Murray-Quick.
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