Nancy Mace Calls Her Constituents 'Ugly,' 'Nasty,' Doubles Down on Refusing Town Hall
After refusing to attend a March 2025 town hall in her district, Mace posted a video calling constituents who had been calling her office 'ugly,' 'hateful,' and 'nasty.' The comments were widely condemned as contemptuous of her own voters.
Kylie Cheung ·
"Stop being ugly and hateful. You're taking away from real people in the Lowcountry that have real needs."
, Rep. Nancy Mace, in a video posted to social media after declining a constituent town hall
Kylie Cheung reported for Jezebel on Mace's video response to constituent pressure following her refusal to appear at a March 2025 town hall in her South Carolina district. Rather than address the substantive concerns that had prompted more than 200 constituents to show up to a meeting she declined to attend, Mace posted a video addressing those constituents directly, and calling them names.
She went further in the same message:
"Help those in need. Stop making BS excuses that you're trying to put people in harm's way over."
Mace had previously dismissed the town hall's organizers as "paid agitators," a characterization the Post and Courier's Caitlin Byrd documented was flatly rejected by the attendees, who included a Mount Pleasant Town Councilwoman and ordinary residents who had been calling her office seeking responses to constituent concerns.
The video drew condemnation from across the political spectrum. Critics noted that calling constituents "ugly" and "nasty" for seeking representation was an unusual public posture for a sitting member of Congress running for governor in 2026. Jezebel's piece came three days after the Post and Courier's original town-hall no-show story and added Mace's own subsequent video as the follow-up newsmaker.
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