Nancy Mace Told a Voter 'I Won by So Much.' Then She Placed Fifth, and Her Seat Went Blue
In an Ulta Beauty aisle on April 19, 2025, a voter told Rep. Nancy Mace, 'You're gonna be voted out so fast this year.' She answered, 'I won by so much.' Over the next three days she posted about him at least nine more times, once from her official House account. She did not run for the House again. She finished fifth in the June 2026 Republican primary for governor, with 12 percent, and on Nov. 3, 2026, Democrat Nancy Lacore won the seat Mace gave up. Here is what she said, in her own voice, and the record.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026.
On April 19, 2025, Ely Murray-Quick, a Charleston-area real estate agent, asked Rep. Nancy Mace in the skincare aisle of an Ulta Beauty in Mount Pleasant whether she would hold more town halls. Both of them cursed. He told her, "You're gonna be voted out so fast this year." She answered, "I won by so much." Over the next three days she posted about him at least nine more times, once from her official House account. She was not voted out: she did not run for the House again. She ran for governor and finished fifth in the Republican primary, and on Nov. 3, 2026, the seat she gave up went to a Democrat. Here is what she said, in her own voice, and the record.
Sources: Mace's own video of the encounter, posted on X on April 19, 2025 (post, 7.69 million views when we checked on Nov. 6, 2026); his phone video of the same moment as CNN aired it; her posts on X and on her official House account; Fox News, CNN, her own GET MACED show and Piers Morgan Uncensored. We checked every line we quote from video against the audio with two speech-recognition models and quote only what both agree on.
In the aisle
The Post and Courier reported that the exchange started with his question "about future town halls." CNN's anchor described what followed: "The pair go back and forth and eventually start to exchange profanity."
In her own video, Mace says:
Because you people on the left are crazy. You're absolutely f***ing crazy.
F*** you.
He says, in his phone video as CNN aired it:
You're gonna be voted out so fast this year.
She answers:
I won by so much.
The Latin Times reported the same two lines at the time. We do not quote his own cursing; he is a private citizen.
Three days of posts
At 5:26 p.m. ET, in a reply on X (post), she wrote: "Don't worry though, I'm going to post the video of your little buddy, in daisy dukes, in a makeup store."
At 6:36 p.m. she posted the video (post):
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.
Over the next three days she posted about him at least nine more times. These are the ones X search shows; there may be more. All times ET.
- April 19, 6:38 p.m.: "I just wanted some face wash on my afternoon off lol" (post)
- April 21, 6:50 a.m.: "Good morning to everyone except men who wear daisy dukes." (post)
- April 21, 9:08 a.m.: "About to join Sid on WABC to talk daisy dukes and lunatics who get in the faces of conservatives. Real men protect women, they don't harass them." (post)
- April 21, 3:34 p.m.: "Fake News @postandcourier refusing to publish my statement on the man wearing daisy dukes. Not surprised. 💅" (post)
- April 21, 4:31 p.m.: a video on her way to a Turning Point USA event (post). In it she says, "And then today, her first day as comms director is Daisy Dukes day. Yeah, that guy." And: "And if you wanna get in my face, expect it right back and I will record you and I will make you famous."
- April 21, 6:30 p.m.: "Never thought we'd need to say this, but if you harass a Congresswoman in public while wearing daisy dukes, maybe you're the problem." (post)
- April 21, 8:04 p.m., from her official House account, @RepNancyMace: "Mr. Daisy Dukes isn't going to like this one. We're going to Hold the Line. See you tonight on @seanhannity. @FoxNews" (post)
- April 21, 11:20 p.m., with her upload of the Fox clip: "Whether it's a locker room, a bathroom, or the face wash aisle at Ulta, no man has the right to invade our spaces. Not now, not ever. @seanhannity @FoxNews" (post)
- April 22, 11:58 a.m.: a reply to a post that read "Daisy Dukes for Congress!!!" (post)
Two accounts of the same minute
Mace, on Fox News with Sean Hannity on April 21, 2025 (video):
I just wanted some face wash. That was it.
And this guy approached me and I will tell you, I felt threatened. I felt harassed.
Murray-Quick, on CNN with Laura Coates the next day (video):
I was at least eight feet away from her at all times. There was no aggression. There was no harassment.
In a statement quoted by the New York Post, he said: "She wasn't interrupted, insulted, or blocked from exiting Ulta."
His replies
On April 21 he wrote on X (post): "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 🩳."
Early on April 22, under the Post and Courier's post about the story, he wrote (post): "hold the line if it makes you feel tough, but don't be shocked when that line at the polls ends your little performance run in Congress."
What came next
- She gave up the seat. Mace ran for governor in 2026 instead of seeking a fourth House term. Her term ends Jan. 3, 2027.
- Fifth place. On June 9, 2026, "Mace, a three-term congresswoman, finished a distant fifth in Tuesday's crowded race, drawing a mere 12% of the vote" (WCIV / ABC News 4).
- Her words on it. On her own show, GET MACED, on Oct. 22, 2026 (video): "I got my a** kicked in the governor's race. I placed fifth, by the way."
- Election night. On Piers Morgan Uncensored on Nov. 3, 2026 (video): "We look like, I just found out, we're losing my seat. I won my seat two years ago by 18 points."
- The 18 points. In 2024 she won the seat with 227,502 votes (58.2 percent) to Democrat Michael B. Moore's 162,582 (41.6 percent). That is 16.6 points.
- The seat. Democrat Nancy Lacore "claimed victory after Tuesday night's election, confirming that Republican Jenny Costa Honeycutt's campaign contacted her to concede the race," Live 5 News reported on Nov. 4. The same report says Mace "issued Lacore her own congratulations Wednesday morning." When we checked on Nov. 6, the result was not yet certified.
What this shows, and what it does not
She told him she won by so much, and she did win the seat by 16.6 points in 2024. She was not voted out: she left the seat to run for governor, lost the primary, and the open seat went to a Democrat. Nothing here shows that the encounter in the store moved a single vote.
His question was about town halls. She did attend one in Beaufort County four days later; the Post and Courier's headline read, "The general public wasn't invited." In August 2025, as a candidate for governor, she held events in Greenville and Spartanburg (Fox News). We could not confirm an open town hall inside the 1st District after April 2025.
Video and credit
The Short above uses Mace's own videos from X (April 19 and April 21, 2025), his phone video as CNN aired it and his CNN interview, Fox News, her GET MACED show and Piers Morgan Uncensored, each credited on screen, with an AI-generated narration voice. We told the full story of the store in an earlier documentary, The Man in the Store. Nothing here is a finding about anyone.
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