I’m LEAVING Congress. Here’s What Nobody Saw Coming

[00:00] I just got tired of the bullshit. Is this worth my life? I'm doing this podcast tonight just to say thank you. I started painting the studio and I haven't, I haven't gone all the way up with the paint.

[00:44] Can you do me one favor right now? Hit the subscribe button. Good evening. Congresswoman Nancy Mace here. And we're going to just get right at it. So much going on this week. We're in the midterm election cycle. We're just days away from November 3rd, 13 days away from November 3rd. Yesterday, I went down to the polls and voted early. We're two weeks out from November 3rd. And in South Carolina, you can vote early, two weeks early in an election. We're in the midterm cycle, a lot of stressed out candidates. I have to tell you, this was the first time in a long time that I wasn't stressed out of my ever living mind over an election. And you know why? It's because I'm not on the ballot for the first time in about nine years. You see, I got my start as a state lawmaker. I was a state house rep representative for three years before I went to the United States Congress to the U.S. House of Representatives. I'm actually the first Republican woman elected to Congress from the state of South Carolina. Just like I was the first Republican woman elected to my state house seat when I ran in 17 and was sworn in in 18.

[01:51] I would then go on to flip a seat in the U.S. House. I beat a guy, a Democrat by the name of Joe Cunningham, by one point in 2017. 2020 and was sworn in on January 3rd, 2021, which is when I got my start in politics, in national level politics. And a lot of people were asking me, why am I not running again? Why didn't I run for my House seat again? Why did I throw away my candidacy on the governor's race? I got my ass kicked in the governor's race. I placed fifth, by the way. And the reason that I ran for governor over the House is because when I ran for the House the first time, I said I would only serve three terms or six years in the House. I really do believe in term limits. I believe that we should limit ourselves, or at least if you're going to be in politics long term, it's good to take a break every now and then, too, and get back to reality. I'm actually very much looking forward to trying to make ends meet as a private citizen again for the first time again in about nine years. I've been an elected official for nine years, and I will retire from the U.S.

[02:54] House January 3rd. I'm not retiring, retiring. I'm only 48. I'll be 49 in a few weeks, but I'm going to retire from politics, at least in the short term and probably for the long term. And the reason I'm doing this podcast and exploring this podcast, and if you smash that like button, hit the subscribe button, you're going to help us get to 100,000 subscribers. We're so close. But while I don't want to run for politics right now, and probably not again in the future, I want to continue to weigh in on the political machine in both parties. I mean, I got railroaded multiple times by both Democrats and Republicans. I've defeated Democrats and Republicans. I've taken it to people who I thought were wrong for the job and been very vocal about that. And I love that part of the job. I love being vocal. I love being in hearings like oversight, the oversight hearing where I was screaming at Hunter Biden or when I took on Kim Cheadle after President Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania.

[03:58] Was this a colossal failure? It was a failure. Yes or no? Was it a colossal failure is the question. Yes or no? I have admitted this is a terrible- This is a yes or no series of questions. Was this a colossal failure? Yes or no? Yes. I believe that my motion, my resolution, my privileged motion to have a vote to impeach the director of the Secret Service after Trump was shot. But that's the reason that she, one of the heavily- one of the reasons why she resigned hours later. So I know that I've had an impact, a great impact on our conservative causes, our conservative values. I've been in a fight or two. I mean, I started off my career as a Waffle House Rachel. So I've seen a fight or two. I've seen drunk people at 2 a.m. I've not been one of them, by the way, despite the news reports, which is interesting because one of the reasons I'm getting out of this gig too is that I just got tired of being smeared in the press. I just got tired of the bullshit.

[05:00] And I got tired of the false headlines, the fake news, you know, people calling me an alcoholic or- or a- what do they call it? A functioning alcoholic, which none of those stories were true. And it's interesting because the funny thing about that New York mag piece is I can't- I don't think- I have yet to find an attorney who will sue New York mag because everything was just alleged. And there are anonymous sources. And I'm presuming anonymous sources got on a group chat to say, oh, that's not true. I'm not sure if that's true. I'm not sure. what the story was going to be and then just ran with it, which appears to be what I believe they've been doing all along. But like, you know, they said I had tequila delivered at 2 a.m. And I didn't think about the stock the story ran, but like liquor stores don't open at 2 a.m. in D.C. You know what I mean? And so like I looked at everything and I've just said, you know, this is this worth it? Is this worth my life? I love standing up against the hypocrisy. I love standing up against the machine. I love standing up against politics. I love taking it to the mentally ill people, men dressed as women, basically.

[06:07] But I've had a lot of threats along the way. I had to call Capitol Police last week about another one, you know, having websites created about you, targeting you, social media. You know, all those things, people following you around with a camera when you're in the store, just trying to do normal things that normal people do. You know, it gets tiring. It's emotionally taxing and it's tiring. And I'm actually looking forward to being a little getting back to being a normie for a while. But I'm not giving up on politics, meaning that I want to continue being a voice online, being a voice on the podcast, being a voice on social media, calling out the dumbasses when they need to be called out. And I learned how to do that on the House Oversight Committee, for example. I'm the one that called out Jasmine Crockett. If you want to take it outside. Mr. Chairman, the committee is not in order.

[07:09] I'm the one that tried to have Ilhan Omar and her alleged brother-husband's immigration record subpoena. Both Republicans and Democrats shut me down at every turn. Roll the tape. The remark is always, let the process play out, right? That's what they always say. And nothing ever, never happens. That's just, that's Congress for you because both sides protect the other. I'm the one that, that proved and showed that voter ID is used in everything. I took out Democrats from Texas out with stats and data. Roll the tape. Do you know the number or percentage of Democrats who support voter ID in this country? I do not, but I don't think it's a whole lot. Seventy-two percent. That was actually the first time I ever went viral on an economic committee. I've done so many things to embarrass people about the height of hypocrisy, the height of outrageousness in the federal government. And it's time just to pass the reins to somebody else. And so I hope that you're going to join me on this podcast. I hope that you'll subscribe to Get Maced. Once we hit a hundred thousand subscribers, that's approximately only three to 4% of all YouTube podcasts hit that, hit that level.

[08:15] I still have a, I still have a far ways to go for my overall goal. I, I'm going to be at a million subscribers on YouTube and it's going to take me time. It's going to, it's going to take you helping me going to your friends and family and asking them to subscribe so that we can have strong conservative voices. I'm very worried about the midterms. I'm grateful that I'm on the ballot right now, but I think it's going to be a bloodbath. And I think that we're going to have, we're going to suffer some losses we should not have. We've had to move money into South Carolina for Darlene Graham's race because she hasn't raised any money. We had to move money out of North Carolina

[08:51] like in Texas, like in South Carolina. We just had Vivek Ramaswamy who did not need to go after Amy Acton the way that he did. He's going after a woman whose stepfather was arrested for molesting her, for raping her at the age of 12, at the prepubescent age of 12. And so we're going to have some of, I think, political suicide. Vivek could have run and won without that nasty story trotting out Amy Acton's mother on a TV ad. It's disgusting. It's offensive. And it's one of the reasons we're losing when we're bleeding women voters because of that kind of behavior towards women. Even I struggle as a woman struggled getting female voters. Most of my voters and supporters are men. Well, men, I need your wives to support the podcast Get Maced. I need your wives to support conservative women, but we can't behave that way. You can't go after the wife of the stepfather, your mother, a woman's, a candidate's mom, the wife of the man that allegedly raped her when she was 12.

[09:58] Why are we politicizing pedophilia? I don't understand. So I think we're going to get wiped out is what I think. And I think I'm grateful that I'm not on the ballot. I'm worried about my seat flipping again to a Democrat. If it's not this election cycle, it could be the next one. The amount of money that is being spent here in South Carolina, I worry about my state. And we need people, who are conservative like you, like me, using their voices, using their microphones. And I have to tell you, I have more of a following now than I did when I was running for office. We're getting over 100,000 new followers every single month right now. That's more than any other time that I'd ever run for office ever. And so I'm grateful that come January 3rd, I'm going to have the time to be able to dedicate to being more of a voice, more of a hammer, more of a weapon. Mace is a weapon, by the way. Such a weapon. To be able to take some of these people on. Do it with my puppies by my side.

[10:59] My puppies are somewhere. Millie and Libby.

[11:02] Millie.

[11:03] Libby. I'm going to see if they'll, if the puppies will come to us. Come here. Come say hi. Libby just come here. Come say hi. I have two puppies here. This is my home studio. I built my own studio, which is kind of funny. I started painting it. I started painting the studio.

[11:24] And I haven't, I haven't gone all the way up with the paint. It's, it's one of my bedrooms in my home. Come here. Come say hi. Come here. Come here.

[11:38] But I have two puppies. They're Havanese puppies. This is Liberty. And I say that she loves freedom, the constitution. Say hi. And bacon. But I'm going to take my two puppies, you know, take care of my two puppies. Take care of myself for a while. Something I haven't done in a long time because I've been, I've been so busy politicking and running for office and traveling to D.C. I'm going to be grateful not to be on a plane every week or every three days. It's been painful. I'm grateful to be able to see my children more often after this. But also I get to do podcasts with the puppies and with, with the dogs. I just hit my lipstick on the microphone. But, you know, I built the studio in my home. I'll be able to work from home a little bit. And still be that voice. But I need your help. I need you to subscribe. Help me get to 100,000. We're almost there. I want to thank you for following me on X, on TikTok, on Instagram, on Facebook. We're about to hit a million followers on my two Facebook accounts. I have two accounts, one for the job and one's my personal.

[12:39] But we're about to hit a million on both, which is another big milestone for us. But I couldn't do it without you. I wouldn't be where I am today, being the voice that I am, if I hadn't had voters and donors like you. For the last several years, helping me get to where I am today. So I'm not going to be going anywhere necessarily. I'll be with you online. We'll be fighting the good fight together. And I'm just, I'm doing this podcast tonight just to say thank you. Because I am very grateful for where I am, for who I am, for the things that I have endured, the trauma and troubles I have endured being in office. I'm a better person because of it. I'm a better person because of you. And I'm excited to be here. I'm excited about the opportunities ahead. And I'm excited to share that with you. And I hope you'll stay with me along the way. I'll see you tomorrow night. Tomorrow night, we have Royce White. Royce White is coming on tomorrow night. He tried to get into the WNBA.

[13:39] Stay with me. Can you do me one favor right now? Hit the subscribe button.