endorsement
6 entries across the record carry this tag. Browse all dispatches, or jump to a group below.
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
'Ding dong the witch is gone': Nikki Haley's son toasts Mace's defeat, four years after his mother's ads helped save her seat
Minutes after Nancy Mace conceded her fifth-place finish in the June 9, 2026 South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, Nalin Haley, the son of former governor and U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, quote-tweeted her concession with 'DING DONG THE WITCH IS GONE!,' then added 'Free at last, free at last.' The jab capped a four-year arc: in 2022 Nikki Haley cut TV ads calling Mace 'tough as nails' and 'a fighter' and helped her beat a Trump-backed primary challenger; in January 2024 Mace repaid her by endorsing Donald Trump over Haley, in Haley's home state, the day before the New Hampshire primary. The Haley camp had spent election day boosting Mace's rivals.
- February 2, 2024 · Dispatch
Mace endorses Trump: 'Donald Trump is the only man who can save America'
On February 2, 2024, Mace endorsed Donald Trump over fellow South Carolinian Nikki Haley ahead of the state's Republican primary.
- January 22, 2024 · Dispatch
Mace endorses Trump over Haley: 'It's been a complete shit show since he left the White House'
On January 22, 2024, Mace endorsed Donald Trump over Nikki Haley, who lives in Mace's own congressional district and had backed her in 2022, the day before the New Hampshire primary, reversing her post-January 6 declaration that Trump had no future in the GOP.
Wiki & people
January 6 & the Trump Relationship
Mace's statements condemning the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, and her subsequent pivot to endorsing Donald Trump, form one of the most documented reversals in her public record.
June 10, 2026 · Wiki
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