Nancy Mace Straight Up Lied About Her Post-McCarthy Ouster Fundraising on CNN
Isaac Schorr ·
Mediaite documented Mace's self-contradictory behavior: she blasted Gaetz in January for fundraising off the McCarthy speaker fight, then fundraised off McCarthy's ouster within an hour of the vote, then lied to CNN's Kaitlan Collins about the timing, all while claiming she had not been fundraising 'every step of the way.'
"I have not been fundraising off of this every step of the way.", Nancy Mace, to CNN's Kaitlan Collins
Mediaite's Isaac Schorr documented a clear-cut example of Mace contradicting her own publicly stated position within the span of a single news cycle. The sequence: in January 2023, Mace criticized Matt Gaetz on the record for fundraising off the McCarthy speaker fight:
"Matt Gaetz is a fraud. Every time he voted against Kevin McCarthy last week, he sent out a fundraising email."
When McCarthy was ultimately ousted in October 2023, Mace voted with the Gaetz faction. Within an hour of the vote, her campaign sent a fundraising email capitalizing on the moment, the same behavior she had condemned Gaetz for doing months earlier.
Confronted by CNN's Kaitlan Collins about the fundraising email, Mace denied the pattern. When Collins pressed further, Mace dropped the pretense entirely:
"You're damn right I'm fundraising off of this right now 'cause the establishment is coming after me."
Schorr's piece documented the three-part contradiction in sequence: the public condemnation of Gaetz, the immediate fundraising email after the very vote she criticized Gaetz for, and the initial denial to Collins before the reversal. The headline's blunt framing, "straight up lied", made the piece widely circulated among political commentators tracking Mace's credibility.
