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Incidents

• The Greer megaphone arrest (June 2026)

  On the evening of June 8, 2026, the night before South Carolina's Republican gubernatorial primary, a volunteer on Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette's campaign finance committee, Blake Kirsch, ran up to a man legally protesting outside an Evette campaign event in Greer, ripped a megaphone from his hands, and handed it to the police officers already on scene. Greer PD cited him for misdemeanor assault and battery in the third degree and booked him 'without incident.' On primary day, June 9, Rep. Nancy Mace turned the episode into an all-morning social-media offensive, calling it a 'physical assault' by Evette's 'employees' and demanding Evette 'drop out of the race.' Evette's campaign said Kirsch was an unpaid volunteer, not staff, and condemned the conduct; he resigned from the finance committee. Local stations led with 'volunteer' and 'megaphone snatched.' Mace finished last in the primary that day.

  June 8, 2026 · Incident

• TSA line-skip video with Debbie Wasserman Schultz (March 2026)

  March 24, 2026 · Incident

• Israel evacuation missions and the White House clash (March 2026)

  Rep. Mace made two trips to the Middle East in March 2026, embedding with veteran nonprofit Grey Bull Rescue to evacuate stranded Americans during the Israel, Iran war. 155 Americans including 11 infants were evacuated on the first trip. Anonymous White House officials accused her of conducting unauthorized outreach to Saudi Arabia and staging the missions for political gain; she denied this, and Grey Bull's founder called her 'fully embedded … to work to save lives.'

  March 12, 2026 · Incident

• The House Ethics reimbursement investigation (2025-2026)

  The Office of Congressional Conduct voted 6-0 to refer Rep. Mace to the House Committee on Ethics over reimbursements from her official allowance for lodging at a D.C. property she co-owned. The Ethics Committee announced an expanded review in March 2026; no violation has been found.

  March 2, 2026 · Incident

• 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

• Nose-job remark to Rep. Sara Jacobs (Sept. 10, 2025)

  During House floor debate on September 10, 2025, Rep. Mace shouted an obscene insult at Rep. Sara Jacobs, then followed up on X with an offer of a plastic-surgeon referral.

  September 10, 2025 · Incident

• Epstein files floor speech and Oversight briefing (Sept. Nov. 2025)

  In September 2025, Rep. Mace left an Oversight Committee briefing with Epstein victims early, describing a panic attack. On November 18, 2025, she delivered a floor speech supporting the House vote to force release of all Jeffrey Epstein files.

  September 2, 2025 · Incident

• USC umbrella misidentification (Aug. 24, 2025)

  On August 24, 2025, during a swatting hoax at the University of South Carolina, Rep. Mace posted a photo to her 500,000 followers on X identifying a student carrying an umbrella as the 'alleged school shooter.' The post was deleted after it was determined to be a swatting hoax.

  August 24, 2025 · Incident

• The Epstein Files Fight

  July 15, 2025 · Incident

• Mace vs. the Solicitor: the campaign against the prosecutor in her own cases (2025)

  Beginning in June 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace publicly accused Ninth Judicial Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson, the elected chief prosecutor whose circuit would handle the cases arising from Mace's own allegations, of leaking evidence, 'obstruct[ing] the investigation,' and protecting an abuser, and demanded Wilson recuse, be removed from all domestic-violence prosecutions, and face a state investigation. Wilson denied wrongdoing, noted SLED ran the investigation, and said the disclosure Mace called a 'leak' was a discovery obligation required by law. The Post and Courier reported Mace's office provided no evidence for the obstruction claim when asked. Allegations on all sides are unproven and contested.

  June 19, 2025 · Incident

• The 'Breach of Trust' surveillance hearing & the silhouette photo (May 20, 2025)

  On May 20, 2025, roughly three months after her House floor speech, Rep. Mace chaired a House Oversight subcommittee hearing she titled 'Breach of Trust: Surveillance in Private Spaces' and used it to repeat her accusations against her ex-fiancé Patrick Bryant, including by holding up a poster-sized 'silhouette' image she said depicted her own body, taken without her consent. Bryant and the other named men deny all allegations; the matters are contested and in ongoing litigation.

  May 20, 2025 · Incident

• Ulta Beauty confrontation (Apr. 19, 2025)

  On April 19, 2025, Rep. Mace was recorded swearing at a constituent at an Ulta Beauty store in Mount Pleasant, S.C., after the constituent asked when she planned to hold a town hall. Mace posted the video herself.

  April 19, 2025 · Incident

• The 'PREDATORS' poster outside her office (Feb.-Nov. 2025)

  After her February 10, 2025 House floor speech, Rep. Nancy Mace turned the prop into a fixture: a 'PREDATORS, STAY AWAY FROM' poster bearing the photos, names, and home towns of four named private citizens, which she mounted in the public hallway outside her Longworth office and pushed to her official social-media accounts. It stayed up for weeks, came down in late March 2025 (her press secretary said he knew nothing about its removal), and she revived the motif at a May 2025 Oversight hearing and again in November 2025, 'this will reside outside my office at the Capitol.' Photographs taken March 5, 2025 in the corridor outside her Longworth office show the board displayed alongside a companion 'NANCY MACE PROTECTS WOMEN' board listing her women's-safety bills. The four men deny every allegation; no criminal charges have been filed; the matters are contested, unproven, and in ongoing litigation.

  February 11, 2025 · Incident

• Berg's February 2025 phone call to Erin Gunther

  In February 2025, Alexis 'Ali' Berg placed a recorded phone call to Erin Gunther, an Assignment Desk Works employee who held the position Berg once had. Across several public court filings, the call is described as one in which Berg repeated the sexual-assault allegations Rep. Nancy Mace had told her, while also stating she had no memory of the event, had never seen the alleged video, and that Mace was her only source. The audio and transcript are litigation discovery and are not public; what is public is how the call is recounted in filed pleadings, in a sworn affidavit quoted in a public memorandum, and in counsel's statements in open court. Every allegation on every side is contested and unproven, the parties deny the claims against them, no criminal charges have been filed, and the litigation is ongoing.

  February 10, 2025 · Incident

• The 'PREDATORS' House-floor speech (Feb. 10, 2025)

  On February 10, 2025, Rep. Mace delivered a roughly 53-minute House floor speech making allegations against named men and vowing to 'burn this system to the ground.' The named individuals deny all allegations; civil litigation is ongoing.

  February 10, 2025 · Incident

• The 'tranny' slur at House Oversight (Feb. 5, 2025)

  At a February 5, 2025 House Oversight hearing, Rep. Mace repeated an anti-transgender slur three times on the record in direct response to a colleague's parliamentary objection.

  February 5, 2025 · Incident

• The Capitol handshake dispute (Dec. 2024)

  In December 2024, Rep. Mace alleged she was physically assaulted by foster-care advocate James McIntyre at a Capitol Hill reception; at least three witnesses described the contact as a handshake; federal prosecutors dropped the charge in April 2025.

  December 10, 2024 · Incident

• McIntyre Capitol-grounds incident (Dec. 2024)

  On December 10, 2024, Rep. Mace alleged she was physically assaulted by foster-care advocate James McIntyre at a Capitol Hill reception; McIntyre was arrested, but at least three witnesses called it a handshake, and prosecutors dropped the charge in April 2025.

  December 10, 2024 · Incident

• Reported Reagan National (DCA) constituent confrontation (Nov. 2024)

  FITSNews reported in November 2025 that, a year earlier, Mace had an angry confrontation with a Charleston constituent who questioned her at Reagan National Airport, an account based on anonymous witnesses. No footage has surfaced publicly.

  November 21, 2024 · Incident

• The McBride bathroom bill (Nov. 2024)

  In November 2024, Rep. Mace introduced a resolution to bar transgender women from Capitol restrooms, explicitly targeting Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person elected to Congress.

  November 15, 2024 · Incident

• The hacking allegation: 'I hacked into his computer and phone'

  A sworn affidavit by South Carolina journalist Ashleigh Messervy attests that at a private August 28, 2024 meeting, Rep. Nancy Mace, after explaining she 'used to be a programmer,' told her: 'I hacked into his [Patrick's] computer and phone.' In her own court filings Mace denies that she 'hacked' the phone, saying her former fiance gave her express permission, added her thumbprint, and told her she could access it whenever she wanted, though she admits she accessed the hidden folders on his phone using a four-digit code. The word, and whether it fits the conduct, is contested; the matters remain unproven and in ongoing litigation.

  August 28, 2024 · Incident

• "What is a woman?", Mace's recurring hearing-room test

  Across at least six House Oversight appearances from June 2024 to March 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace pressed an adversarial witness, Maya Wiley, Martin O'Malley, Fatima Goss Graves, Gov. Tim Walz (twice), and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, to answer 'What is a woman?' on camera. The clips, the verbatim exchanges, and her own posts are collected here.

  June 27, 2024 · Incident

• Capitol Police in Mace's office during Dan Hanlon's exit (December 2023)

  After Rep. Mace fired chief of staff Dan Hanlon, Capitol Police entered her office on December 4, 2023 before he arrived to collect his belongings. Former staffers said they believed the police presence was meant to intimidate Hanlon; no charges were filed and no arrest was made.

  December 4, 2023 · Incident

• The scarlet letter 'A' (Oct. 2023)

  On October 10, 2023, a week after voting to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Mace walked into a closed-door Speaker candidate forum wearing a white tank top printed with a large red letter 'A', her self-described 'scarlet letter', saying she would not be 'demonized' or shamed into silence for her vote.

  October 10, 2023 · Incident

• Home vandalism (Memorial Day 2021)

  In the early hours of Memorial Day, May 31, 2021, Rep. Mace's Charleston home was spray-painted with graffiti including Antifa symbols and profanity. Charleston police released a suspect photo in June 2021; no arrest was publicly confirmed.

  May 31, 2021 · Incident

• The reported 'get punched in the face' account (Jan. 6, 2021)

  Former aides told The Washington Post and The Daily Beast in January 2024 that, while sheltering during the Capitol riot, Mace wanted to leave and 'get punched in the face' by rioters for media attention and to become the face of anti-Trump Republicans. Mace dismissed the reporting; the account rests on anonymous former staffers.

  January 6, 2021 · Incident

• The 2016 'baby bird' drinking-game video

  A cell-phone video filmed while Mace was campaigning for Donald Trump in 2016, published as an exclusive by the Daily Mail in December 2024, shows her down a shot of liquor and pass it mouth-to-mouth with another woman in a drinking game known as 'baby bird,' a chain that ends with a male participant vomiting on the floor.

  January 1, 2016 · Incident