alan wilson
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Dispatches
- June 9, 2026 · Dispatch
'Buried the hatchet': after finishing fifth, Mace concedes the governor's race and endorses Alan Wilson, the rival she spent months branding a 'p*dophile protector'
On the night of June 9, 2026, after finishing fifth in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary with about 11.4% of the vote, Nancy Mace conceded and endorsed the man who advanced to the June 23 runoff, Attorney General Alan Wilson. 'I want a law-and-order governor, and that law-and-order governor is going to be Alan Wilson,' she told supporters, saying that 'in the last couple of weeks, Alan Wilson and I have buried the hatchet.' The endorsement reversed a year of attacks: as recently as November 3, 2025 she had called Wilson a 'p*dophile protector' on X. Wilson has rejected those attacks, his office said Mace 'drastically mischaracterized' prosecution data, and nothing in the exchange is a finding about either man's conduct.
- June 9, 2026 · Dispatch
Under a gag order barring 'any comment about any aspect of this case,' Mace uses her televised concession speech to talk about 'predators that got away in my case'
On the night of June 9, 2026, after conceding the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, Nancy Mace told her Charleston election-night crowd, and a live television audience, that she had talked to Attorney General Alan Wilson 'about my case' and would help his administration ensure that 'predators that got away in my case … we finally put criminals behind bars.' Mace is a third-party defendant in Berg v. Bryant, where a November 26, 2025 gag order bars every party from 'making or publishing any comment about any aspect of this case' or about any party or person connected to it, and a January 12, 2026 civil-contempt motion over her earlier public statements remains pending. Both orders are reproduced in full below. Mace contends the gag order is unconstitutional; all underlying allegations are unproven and contested, and no court has ruled on the June 9 remarks.
- January 15, 2026 · Dispatch
Mace attacks AG Alan Wilson: 'If you're a pedophile, you definitely want Alan Wilson to prosecute your case'
On January 15, 2026, Mace attacked her chief governor's-race rival, AG Alan Wilson, with a 'pedophile paradise' line after a child sex offender was arrested and released the same day; Wilson's office said Mace had 'drastically mischaracterized' the data she cited.
- December 10, 2025 · Dispatch
Wilson on Mace's 'hit job' claim: 'a categorical lie'
The night after Rep. Nancy Mace told CNN that AG Alan Wilson had orchestrated the airport police report against her, Wilson appeared on CNN and called the accusation 'a categorical lie' and 'delusional,' describing Mace as 'an entitled, spoiled brat.'
- December 9, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace tells CNN's Kaitlan Collins the airport police report was 'falsified'
On CNN's 'The Source with Kaitlan Collins' on Dec. 9, 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace called the airport police report '100% fictitious' and accused SC Attorney General Alan Wilson of orchestrating its contents, a claim Wilson rejected the following night.
- November 3, 2025 · Dispatch
'How many times are you going to call your daddy, Alan?', Mace's Nov. 3 barrage at AG Alan Wilson and his father, Rep. Joe Wilson
On November 3, 2025, Mace fired a string of X posts at her chief Republican gubernatorial rival, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, mocking him as 'not man enough' and suffering from 'Low T,' accusing him of running to 'your daddy' (his father, U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson) to 'go after me,' and calling Alan Wilson, in her words, a 'p*dophile protector.' Wilson has accused Mace of 'ranting and raving' and his office has said she mischaracterized prosecution data; the two later reconciled, and after Mace finished fifth in the June 2026 primary she endorsed Wilson.
Incidents
Charleston airport / TSA incident (Oct. 2025, June 2026)
On October 30, 2025, Rep. Mace confronted TSA officers and airport police at Charleston International Airport, cursing loudly and invoking her congressional status. An official police report documented her conduct; she refused to apologize and called it a 'political hit job.' Fellow Republicans Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham publicly rebuked her, a threatened lawsuit named seven defendants, a December investigation found her repeated procedure failures drove the episode, and Mace fought publicly with CNN and AG Alan Wilson over an alleged falsified report. She finished last in the June 2026 GOP gubernatorial primary and subsequently conceded and endorsed Wilson.
October 30, 2025 · Incident
Wiki & people
Alan Wilson
South Carolina Attorney General and 2026 Republican gubernatorial candidate whose campaign was defined by a prolonged public feud with rival Nancy Mace.
June 10, 2026 · Wiki
John Mace McGrath
John Mace McGrath is the chairman of the Berkeley County Republican Party and a nephew of Rep. Nancy Mace; a Citadel graduate and U.S. Army officer, he worked on Mace's 2024 re-election campaign before moving into county party leadership. The Washington Post reported that Mace confronted him at a May 1, 2025 JD Vance steel-plant event over an Alan Wilson endorsement, and during the 2026 governor's race he did not back his aunt's campaign.
April 15, 2025 · Wiki
Media coverage
Republican Torches 'Entitled Brat' Nancy Mace Over Her F-Bomb Airport Tirade
The Daily Beast reported on South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson's CNN appearance in which he rebutted Rep. Nancy Mace's accusation that he orchestrated the airport police report, calling her conduct a reflection of someone who sees law enforcement as servants. Wilson disputed Mace's claim that he was behind the investigation.
December 11, 2025 · Media
Nancy Mace accused the SC Attorney General of 'political hit job.' He says that's a 'categorical lie.'
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson appeared on CNN's 'The Source with Kaitlan Collins' the night after Rep. Nancy Mace's interview, flatly denying her claim that he orchestrated the airport police report. Wilson called Mace's accusation a 'categorical lie' and described her conduct as that of 'an entitled spoiled brat.'
December 10, 2025 · Media
Clips
"Once I get my teeth stuck in you" -> "endorse Alan Wilson for governor": Mace's flip on Alan Wilson
A real-footage then-vs-now supercut: Nancy Mace's June 9, 2026 endorsement of Attorney General Alan Wilson (C-SPAN) cut against her own March 4, 2025 House floor speech, where she vowed to make sure 'every South Carolinian knows your name forever' and that 'once I get my teeth stuck in you, I am not letting go.' Wilson rejected her attacks; nothing here is a finding about either man.
June 9, 2026 · Clip
“A pedophile paradise”, Mace attacks AG Alan Wilson
On January 15, 2026, after a man Mace’s office described as a child sex offender was arrested and released the same day, Mace attacked her governor’s-race rival, AG Alan Wilson. Wilson’s office said she had ‘drastically mischaracterized’ the data she cited.
January 15, 2026 · Clip