nancy mace
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Dispatches
- July 30, 2026 · Dispatch
'Advice, tips, hacks?': Mace's 'week 4' carnivore post is the newest chapter in two years of public posts about her weight, her hair, and PTSD
On July 30, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace, a sitting member of Congress and announced candidate for South Carolina governor, asked her X followers for 'advice, tips, hacks' on the carnivore diet, 'heading into week 4.' The post drew more than 200 replies, many asking why a member of Congress was crowdsourcing meal-plan tips. It was not the first time. Since November 2024, Mace has posted repeatedly and publicly about her body: a roughly 30-pound weight loss she attributes to PTSD, a 110-pound frame, 'about half my hair' lost to what she called PTSD-driven stress, and a viral post about eating beans after an election loss. This dispatch collects those public posts, in her own words, with screenshots of each.
- July 20, 2026 · Dispatch
"South Carolina, I'm in": Russell Fry becomes the fourth Republican to enter the race for Lindsey Graham's Senate seat
Rep. Russell Fry (SC-7) announced a bid for the U.S. Senate on X at 8:01 a.m. ET on July 20, 2026, becoming the fourth declared Republican in the special election for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's seat, joining Mark Lynch, Duke Buckner, and Rep. Ralph Norman. Fry, 41, unseated five-term incumbent Tom Rice in a 2022 primary after Rice voted to impeach President Trump; Trump has praised Fry as 'outstanding' but has not endorsed him, having already backed interim Sen. Darline Graham Nordone. Candidate filing does not open until noon Tuesday, July 21, so none of the four declared candidates, or anyone else, has filed yet. About an hour after Fry declared, Rep. Nancy Mace posted an objection to dual candidacies, writing that 'if you're running for two offices at once, you've already told us who you are' and that she 'will never hand Hakeem Jeffries that gift.' She named no one, but on the facts as they stand only Fry fits: he won his SC-7 primary on June 9 and is already the Republican nominee for that seat, so he would appear on the November ballot for both offices, while Norman did not file for House reelection after running for governor. Mace has still not announced a decision of her own.
- July 19, 2026 · Dispatch
"Which version of Nancy Mace will we get?": a nonbinary creator turns Mace's Senate flirtation into a software-update bit
On July 19, 2026, the YouTube and TikTok creator who posts as @defenestrans published an 85-second Short arguing that Nancy Mace's politics track her audience rather than her convictions, staged as a running joke about software updates. 'Nancy Mace has successfully upgraded to MAGA 5.0,' the host says, before running through 'Factory settings Nancy, District 1 Nancy, Governor's race Nancy, Senate DLC Nancy' and closing: 'I think she just has auto update on, and somehow every new version has more bugs than the last.' Two factual claims in the clip check out: Mace finished fifth in the June 9 Republican gubernatorial primary with 12.1 percent, and she has said on the record she will look at Lindsey Graham's Senate seat. The characterizations are the creator's own; Mace has not responded to the video.
- July 17, 2026 · Dispatch
Trump endorses Lindsey Graham's sister for a full Senate term, and puts Nancy Mace's decision in a harder box
President Trump endorsed Sen. Darline Graham Nordone for a full six-year term on July 17, 2026, the same day Axios reported that Rep. Nancy Mace is still considering a Senate bid despite the endorsement. The move closes the appointment lane Mace had been eyeing and forces a choice: run against Trump's chosen candidate in a primary where she trails at 10 percent, or stand down. This dispatch catalogs the full timeline, from Mace's 'I would be an idiot not to at least look at it' media tour on July 12, to her team's viability polling, to the Emerson poll showing her tied for third at 10 percent, to Trump's endorsement of Graham's sister.
- July 16, 2026 · Dispatch
First poll after Graham's death puts Nancy Mace at 10 percent, tied for third, as pollster says 'no candidate begins as a clear favorite'
The first poll taken after Sen. Lindsey Graham's death, an Emerson College Polling survey for Nexstar Media fielded July 14 to 15, found no clear front-runner in the Republican scramble for his South Carolina Senate seat. Rep. Nancy Mace drew 10 percent, tied for third with Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and behind Rep. Ralph Norman (16 percent) and businessman Mark Lynch (13 percent). No candidate reached 20 percent, and 'undecided' led the entire field at 18 percent.
- July 14, 2026 · Dispatch
Nancy Mace Answers Boosie Badazz After Her Name Surfaces in a $600,000 Pardon-Scam Claim
A NOTUS investigation published July 13, 2026 reported that rapper Boosie Badazz paid Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman about $600,000 on the promise of a presidential pardon, and that Wohl invoked a list of MAGA-aligned names, including Nancy Mace, as having endorsed the effort. Most named figures denied involvement or stayed silent, and Mace's office declined to comment to NOTUS. A day later, when Boosie publicly called out the same names on X, Mace was the one who replied and offered to connect him with her office staff.
- July 13, 2026 · Dispatch
Prediction Markets Put Nancy Mace Near the Floor in the Graham-Seat Scramble
Across Kalshi, Polymarket, Manifold, and PredictIt snapshots checked July 13, Nancy Mace was priced as a long-shot in the South Carolina Senate special-election scramble, ranging from tiny fractions of a percent on Polymarket to 3 cents on Kalshi and roughly 1.4 percent on Manifold. PredictIt showed 10 cents, but its stale order book made that a weak signal rather than a clean consensus.
- February 2, 2026 · Dispatch
Opposing Counsel Tells Court Mace's Motion Is 'Intended to Delay This Litigation, Harass Plaintiff, Its Members, and Agents'
In a February 2026 court filing, ADW's counsel Rene Dukes argued that Rep. Nancy Mace had no legal standing to intervene in the ADW v. Berg breach-of-contract case and that her motion was frivolous, filed solely to harass and delay. Dukes also noted that Mace's filing invoked her own congressional floor speech, in which she had named private citizens who are members of the plaintiff.
Wiki & people
The 2026 South Carolina Senate Special Election
Sen. Lindsey Graham died on July 11, 2026, opening a U.S. Senate seat that South Carolina will fill in a special election. Gov. Henry McMaster appointed Graham's sister, Darline Graham Nordone, as interim senator; President Trump has endorsed her for the full term. Candidate filing opens July 21 and closes July 28. Four Republicans have declared: Mark Lynch, Duke Buckner, Rep. Ralph Norman, and Rep. Russell Fry. Rep. Nancy Mace has not declared and is not on the November ballot; she ran for governor instead of seeking reelection and lost the June 9 Republican primary. This hub tracks the filing calendar, the declared field, published polling, and Mace's own dated statements as the story develops.
July 20, 2026 · Wiki
Donald Trump
The 45th and 47th U.S. President, whose on-again, off-again relationship with Nancy Mace (from 2016 campaign staffer, through her January 6 break and his 'crazy Nancy Mace' attacks, to her self-branding as 'Trump in high heels' and his 2026 snub) runs the length of her political career.
June 11, 2026 · Wiki
Katie Arrington
Former South Carolina state representative, two-time SC-01 congressional candidate, and Department of Defense cybersecurity official, twice the Trump-endorsed standard-bearer against Mark Sanford (2018) and Nancy Mace (2022).
June 11, 2026 · Wiki
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
Elliott Summey
President and CEO of the Charleston County Aviation Authority and Charleston International Airport, whom Nancy Mace publicly blamed for releasing footage of the October 2025 confrontation and whose resignation she demanded.
December 10, 2025 · Wiki
Larry Klayman
Conservative attorney and founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch whom Nancy Mace retained to pursue threatened defamation claims arising from the October 2025 Charleston airport confrontation.
December 10, 2025 · Wiki
Lindsey Graham
Senior U.S. Senator from South Carolina who backed Tim Scott's rebuke of Nancy Mace following the October 2025 Charleston airport confrontation.
December 10, 2025 · Wiki
Tim Scott
U.S. Senator from South Carolina who publicly rebuked Nancy Mace after she invoked his name during the October 2025 Charleston airport confrontation.
December 10, 2025 · Wiki
Barrett Brewer
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina civil litigator who represented Patrick Bryant and whom U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace publicly criticized by name in 2025, accusing him of weaponizing the legal system.
October 10, 2025 · Wiki
James Gosnell
James B. Gosnell Jr. is a long-serving Charleston County, South Carolina magistrate judge who, weeks after Rep. Nancy Mace publicly praised his ruling in a case central to her, was arrested on federal child sexual abuse material charges and suspended from the bench.
August 20, 2025 · Wiki
Scarlett Wilson
Scarlett Wilson is the elected Ninth Judicial Circuit Solicitor for Charleston and Berkeley Counties, South Carolina. Beginning in June 2025, Rep. Nancy Mace publicly accused Wilson, the chief prosecutor whose circuit would handle the cases arising from Mace's own allegations, of leaking evidence and 'obstruct[ing] the investigation,' and demanded she recuse, be removed from all domestic-violence prosecutions, and face a state investigation. Wilson denied wrongdoing; reporters found Mace's office offered no supporting evidence.
August 18, 2025 · Wiki
Pam Evette
South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, a Republican gubernatorial candidate in 2026, became a primary rival to Nancy Mace marked by pointed public exchanges.
June 12, 2025 · Wiki
Wesley Donehue
Wesley Donehue is a South Carolina Republican digital strategist who, in sworn deposition testimony made public in May 2025, stated that Rep. Nancy Mace asked him to help pressure her former fiancé using private images to obtain property; Mace's office publicly disputed the characterization.
May 21, 2025 · Wiki
Ely Murray-Quick
Charleston, South Carolina realtor and constituent who approached Rep. Nancy Mace at a Mount Pleasant Ulta Beauty store on April 19, 2025, to ask about town halls; Mace's filmed expletive-laden response went viral.
April 19, 2025 · Wiki
Brian Musgrave
South Carolina private citizen publicly named by Rep. Nancy Mace in a February 2025 House floor speech alleging sexual misconduct; Musgrave denied all allegations and subsequently sued Mace for defamation.
February 10, 2025 · Wiki
John Osborne
Charleston-area venture capitalist publicly named by Rep. Nancy Mace in a February 2025 House floor speech, and on a 'predators' poster displayed in the Capitol, in connection with alleged sexual misconduct; Osborne denied all allegations, and no criminal charges have been filed.
February 10, 2025 · Wiki
Curtis Jackson
Curtis Jackson is the former husband of U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace and the father of their two children, son Miles and daughter Ellison; court proceedings following their 2019 divorce resulted in a joint-custody ruling, though the couple's daughter moved in with Jackson full-time in November 2023, even as Mace has publicly described herself as a 'single mom' across campaign events, social media, and a 2024 RNC address.
July 17, 2024 · Wiki