Ace of Spades HQ pans Mace's fifth-place primary finish
The long-running conservative blog Ace of Spades HQ mocked Nancy Mace's fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, casting her as a self-promoter who 'cynically tried to ride the Epstein Files to victory,' and folding her into a call to 'purge all the flakes, grifters, hangers-on, fame-whores.' Like the National Review and Washington Times pieces, the criticism comes from her own side of the aisle.
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Writing the day after the June 9 primary, the pseudonymous proprietor "Ace" framed the loss as a deserved comedown for a politician he cast as all self-promotion. He put her "fifth in a six-man field," wrote that "she cynically tried to ride the Epstein Files to victory" and that "it did not work," and jabbed that "she's really milking this 'survivor' claim." The post closes by folding Mace into a sweeping call to "purge all the flakes, grifters, hangers-on, fame-whores, clock-punchers, know-nothings, morons, and of course, RINO Establishment Saboteurs."
It also revisits her late-campaign insistence that Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette was falsely claiming a Trump endorsement, the post in which Mace herself attached an AI-generated image (see The Daily Beast on the AI Trump photos).
The blog's headline and epithets, including "Grasping Basket-Case," are Ace of Spades HQ's own wording; Maceopedia quotes them as attributed opinion and takes no position on the commentary.
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