governor-2026
27 entries across the record carry this tag. Browse all dispatches, or jump to a group below.
Dispatches
- July 15, 2026 · Dispatch
"If you import the third world, you will become the third world": Mace's Third World Immigration Moratorium Act
On July 15, 2026, four days after Lindsey Graham's death and as she weighs a run for his Senate seat, Nancy Mace introduced the Third World Immigration Moratorium Act, a bill that would bar entry of aliens from 39 designated countries plus holders of Palestinian Authority travel documents, codifying President Trump's travel-ban proclamation into permanent statute. Her press release framed it as moving to 'slam the door,' and her own words went further: 'If you import the third world, you will become the third world.' This dispatch catalogs the bill, the full country list, its exceptions, and Mace's verbatim statements from her office's announcement.
- July 12, 2026 · Dispatch
A 'Mace for Senate' domain has sat registered since 2023, its owner hidden behind private WHOIS
A reader sent Maceopedia an ICANN registration-data lookup for maceforsenate.com. The public record shows the domain was created on August 24, 2023, nearly two years before Lindsey Graham's death opened a South Carolina Senate seat that Nancy Mace is now publicly weighing. Whoever registered it has kept their identity private: the registrant name, organization, and phone are all redacted, and the domain serves no website. Maceopedia independently confirmed the record against Verisign's authoritative RDAP database. The record does not establish who owns the domain, and this dispatch makes no claim that it is Mace or her campaign.
- July 5, 2026 · Dispatch
"Plans to give you hope and a future": Mace posts a Sunday scripture verse, and the reply thread answers back
At 9:00 AM on Sunday, July 5, 2026, Nancy Mace posted Jeremiah 29:11 to X, a serene verse about the Lord's plans 'to prosper you and not to harm you.' The reply thread answered with a pile-on: hypocrisy jabs, scripture thrown back at her, 'MAGA Jesus is not Jesus,' and a handful of amens. Scripture posting is a documented, years-long habit for Mace, and Sunday morning is one of its most consistent slots. This dispatch catalogs the post and the public reaction, lays out the competing readings of why she posts these verses, and takes no position on Mace's medical or psychological state.
- July 2, 2026 · Dispatch
BuzzFeed's June politics photo roundup puts Nancy Mace back-to-back: the TRANS MICE Act, then the fifth-place beans post
BuzzFeed's June 2026 political-photo roundup placed Nancy Mace in consecutive slots: first for the TRANS MICE Act post that drew a transgenic-mice correction, then for her post-primary beans post after finishing fifth in the South Carolina Republican governor's race. The pairing is useful because it shows how the national internet saw the month: not as isolated posts, but as a fast sequence of spectacle, correction, campaign collapse and meme aftermath.
Media coverage
BuzzFeed: Mace lands in the June politics photo roundup for TRANS MICE and the post-loss beans post
Bella Arnold's BuzzFeed roundup of wild June 2026 political photos includes Nancy Mace in consecutive entries: #3 for the TRANS MICE Act post and #4 for the post-primary beans post after her fifth-place South Carolina governor result. The entry is useful because it shows national internet coverage treating those two Mace moments as adjacent parts of the same June spectacle.
July 2, 2026 · Media
The Palmetto Voice says Mace is 'defeated and spiraling' after attacking a foreign-born judge
The Palmetto Voice published a June 25, 2026 Substack column and Facebook post arguing that Nancy Mace's post-primary attacks on a foreign-born federal judge fit the same pattern as her naturalized-citizens amendment, her criticism of Rom Reddy, and her continuing Trump/Epstein conflict. The outlet's 'defeated and spiraling' framing is its own commentary.
June 25, 2026 · Media
Qnotes frames Mace's anti-trans turn and primary collapse
QnotesCarolinas published a June 25, 2026 political profile connecting Nancy Mace's fifth-place South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary finish to her high-profile anti-transgender campaign, her Trump/Epstein break, the House Ethics/OCC reimbursement referral, and criticism from former staffers and Republicans. The headline and sharper labels are Qnotes' own framing.
June 25, 2026 · Media
MAGA Nancy Mace's humiliating defeat
Australia's national broadcaster, the ABC, gives Nancy Mace a two-minute Planet America segment tracing her arc from her post-January-6 clashes with Trump, through a Trump-loyalty reinvention and her anti-transgender and Epstein-files turns, to a fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. Planet America is the network's satirical US-politics explainer, so its sharper characterizations are the program's own framing.
June 16, 2026 · Media
Jezebel reader-comment feature on Mace's loss
Jezebel's recurring 'Comment of the Week' feature frames itself as a postmortem on Nancy Mace's political career following her fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. The post highlights a reader comment and revisits Mace's anti-transgender resolution targeting Rep. Sarah McBride.
June 14, 2026 · Media
Nancy Mace Introduces Bill To Separate Gubernatorial Races By Gender
Satire. The Onion, a comedy publication, imagines Nancy Mace responding to her fifth-place finish in the South Carolina governor's primary by proposing to segregate gubernatorial elections by gender, a send-up of the bathroom-bill politics that defined her House tenure. No such bill exists.
June 11, 2026 · Media
Nancy Mace vows to be 'more of a menace than ever' following election loss
The Hill reports on Nancy Mace's defiant response to her fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, in which she pledged to remain politically active. The piece quotes Mace saying she intends to be 'more of a menace than ever' as her House term winds down.
June 11, 2026 · Media
Online reaction to Mace's primary loss
Them rounds up the social-media reaction to Nancy Mace's last-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, cataloging the jokes, memes and commentary that followed. The LGBTQ+ outlet ties the online response to Mace's high-profile anti-transgender legislative push during her time in Congress.
June 11, 2026 · Media
Ace of Spades HQ pans Mace's fifth-place primary finish
The long-running conservative blog Ace of Spades HQ mocked Nancy Mace's fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, casting her as a self-promoter who 'cynically tried to ride the Epstein Files to victory,' and folding her into a call to 'purge all the flakes, grifters, hangers-on, fame-whores.' Like the National Review and Washington Times pieces, the criticism comes from her own side of the aisle.
June 10, 2026 · Media
Nancy Mace Hit With Total Embarrassment During CNN Segment
On election night, CNN's panel momentarily forgot Mace was even in the governor's race, with host Kaitlan Collins announcing she didn't see Mace's name among the top candidates, prompting John King to scroll to find her at the bottom of the results. The moment encapsulated her campaign's collapse.
June 10, 2026 · Media
Mace posts a cryptic throwback after her primary loss
The Daily Beast reports that Nancy Mace responded to her loss in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary by posting a photo of baked beans on X, a nod to a viral 2024 meme. The piece notes Mace attributed her defeat to her support for releasing the Epstein files over President Trump's objections.
June 10, 2026 · Media
MS NOW opinion on Mace's loss and her record
In an opinion piece for MS NOW, Anthony L. Fisher argues that Nancy Mace's failed gubernatorial bid caps a career he characterizes as defined by reversals. The column contends that Mace briefly broke with Trump after January 6 before realigning with him, and lost his endorsement after supporting release of the Epstein files.
June 10, 2026 · Media
National Review on Mace's primary loss
Writing for National Review the morning after Mace's fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, staff writer Jeffrey Blehar published a valedictory column declaring her electoral career over. Blehar called Mace 'one of the more disturbed politicians I have ever encountered' and said he had stopped writing about her out of stated concern for her well-being. The piece is opinion commentary; Mace has not publicly responded to it.
June 10, 2026 · Media
National Review post-mortem on Mace's primary loss
In a National Review 'Corner' post, Matthew X. Wilson argues that Nancy Mace's gubernatorial collapse was self-inflicted, casting her as a politician who courted controversy for attention. The piece likens her trajectory to that of Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose congressional resignation it references.
June 10, 2026 · Media
Nancy Mace's Future After Losing the South Carolina Governor's Race
The New York Times reports on Nancy Mace's standing after her fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. Having given up her 1st District House seat to run for governor, Mace faces an uncertain political future as her term ends.
June 10, 2026 · Media
After Mace's gubernatorial primary loss: what comes next?
The Post and Courier reports on Nancy Mace's fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary and what it means for her political future. The piece notes that Mace gave up her 1st District House seat to run for governor and has said she does not plan to seek reelection to Congress, leaving open questions about her next move.
June 10, 2026 · Media
Is Mace's political career over? From Trump ally to SC primary defeat
A video segment from The Hill examines whether Nancy Mace's political career is over following her fifth-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. The discussion traces her arc from Trump ally to her defeat in the governor's race.
June 10, 2026 · Media
Mace's gubernatorial bid ends in primary defeat
The Daily Beast covers Mace's last-place finish in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary, tracing her political transformation from Trump critic to MAGA ally and detailing the numerous controversies, including disputes with colleagues, accusations by former staffers, and her anti-transgender legislative push, that marked her congressional career.
June 9, 2026 · Media
Nancy Mace concedes SC governor race, endorses AG Alan Wilson
Mace conceded her gubernatorial campaign before 9 p.m. on primary night after finishing in last place with roughly 11.6 percent of the vote, endorsing AG Alan Wilson over Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette for the runoff and saying she believes her vote to release the Epstein files cost her the race.
June 9, 2026 · Media
Nancy Mace Cornered on Her Fake AI Photos With Trump
Mace was confronted on air about sharing AI-generated photos depicting her with Trump during her governor campaign; she denied they were fake while simultaneously accusing her opponent Pam Evette of running fake AI videos against her.
June 7, 2026 · Media
MAGA Rep's Truly Bizarre Office Design Revealed
Companion writeup of the Kruse Politico profile, highlighting the strange office details, thick blackout curtains, dog beds, food on the floor, a Trump cardboard cutout in a 'MACE' hat, and a whiteboard filled with phrases like 'Go girl' and profanities. Deepened the public narrative of instability.
February 27, 2026 · Media
'I Don't Know That I'll Ever Be OK With Myself'
Kruse followed Mace for months producing a sweeping narrative profile examining her origin story, political rise, trauma disclosure, and erratic recent behavior, concluding with her own admission she may never feel whole. The Daily Beast ran a companion piece the same day highlighting the office's bizarre decor, dog beds, crumbled biscuits, a Trump cardboard cutout wearing a 'MACE' hat, and a profanity-filled whiteboard.
February 27, 2026 · Media
Crossroads 2026: Nancy Mace To Make 'Special Announcement' Next Week
FITSNews previewed Mace's August 4, 2025 announcement of her bid for South Carolina governor, noting she was polling neck-and-neck with AG Alan Wilson and contextualizing the campaign launch within the ongoing controversy from her February 2025 House floor speech.
July 29, 2025 · Media