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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 28, 2026 · Dispatch
'He believed that showing up mattered': Mace issues a press release as every other SC House Republican attends Graham's funeral
On July 28, 2026, Sen. Lindsey Graham's casket lay in the US Capitol Rotunda and then was carried to Washington National Cathedral for his funeral. Every other South Carolina House Republican was there. Rep. Sheri Biggs and Rep. Joe Wilson presented wreaths at his casket. Reps. Russell Fry and Ralph Norman accompanied the South Carolina delegation. Rep. Nancy Mace, who spent two weeks publicly weighing a run for Graham's Senate seat and publicly clashing with him during his lifetime, did not attend. Her office issued a press release statement instead. Filing for the special election primary closed at noon the same day.
- July 22, 2026 · Dispatch
'It hasn't happened yet, has it?': Mace, smiling, calls out Trump's broken 50 percent electricity promise on camera
Stopped outside the Capitol by a MeidasTouch reporter and asked what her constituents are saying about affordability, Rep. Nancy Mace rattled off rising groceries, electricity, mortgages and rent, then finished the reporter's sentence about President Trump's pledge to cut power bills: 'By 50 percent. It hasn't happened yet, has it?' She smiled and turned away. The clip, posted July 22, 2026 and shared across X by @Acyn, landed two days after Trump's own self-imposed deadline to halve electricity prices passed with residential rates up about 18 percent instead.
- July 21, 2026 · Dispatch
One day after quitting the race, Nancy Mace endorses Ralph Norman and snubs Trump's pick for Graham's Senate seat
One day after ruling out her own Senate bid, Rep. Nancy Mace endorsed Rep. Ralph Norman for the South Carolina special election on July 21, 2026, breaking publicly with President Trump, who had endorsed Lindsey Graham's sister Darline Graham Nordone on July 17. Norman accepted the endorsement while pledging to 'stand with President Trump,' the same president whose candidate he and Mace are now both running against. Filing opens today and closes July 28, with the primary set for August 11.
- 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 20, 2026 · Dispatch
"I'm not chasing another title, I'm chasing justice": Nancy Mace rules out the Senate race, and with it, public office
On July 20, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace announced in a 64-second video on X that she will not enter the special election for the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's Senate seat. 'I want to be straight with you. I'm not running for the US Senate, not because I'm backing down from a fight, but because the one I'm already in matters right now.' The announcement came three days after President Trump endorsed Graham's sister, interim Sen. Darline Graham Nordone, for the full term. Combined with her June 10 decision not to seek re-election to the House, Mace is now set to leave public office when her term ends in January 2027. This dispatch reproduces the video statement in full, verbatim, alongside the separate written statement she posted with it.
- July 20, 2026 · Dispatch
"If you're running for two offices at once, you've already told us who you are": Nancy Mace objects to sitting House members seeking the Senate, without naming Russell Fry
Fifty-nine minutes after Rep. Russell Fry announced his campaign for the U.S. Senate on July 20, 2026, Rep. Nancy Mace posted a standalone statement on X, without naming Fry: 'If you're running for two offices at once, you've already told us who you are. That's not about politics anymore - that's about power.' She grounded the objection in House math, warning that a sitting Republican House member who wins the Senate seat in November vacates his seat until next May, narrowing an already thin majority, and writing 'I will never hand Hakeem Jeffries that gift.' Mace is not on the November 2026 ballot herself: she lost the June 9 Republican gubernatorial primary, did not seek reelection to her House seat, and has said her House term ends in January 2027.
- 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
So he can go fly a kite
Rep. William Timmons called his South Carolina colleagues 'thirsty' for eyeing Sen. Lindsey Graham's seat within 24 hours of his death and said he cannot support Nancy Mace or Ralph Norman. Mace's response, captured by Fox Carolina: 'So he can go fly a kite.'
- August 4, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace enters SC governor's race: 'South Carolina doesn't need another empty suit'
On August 4, 2025, Mace officially announced her campaign for South Carolina governor, framing her candidacy as a contrast to what she called 'empty suits.'
- January 28, 2025 · Dispatch
Mace on potential governor rival: 'I will take him out'
On January 28, 2025, before formally announcing her own gubernatorial run, Mace vowed to personally ensure an unspecified potential opponent never became South Carolina's governor.
Court filings
Musgrave v. Mace (2:25-cv-01823-RMG)
Brian Musgrave, one of four men Rep. Nancy Mace named in her February 2025 House floor speech, filed a federal defamation and libel suit against her. The case turned on whether the Speech or Debate Clause and the Westfall Act shielded Mace from liability for statements made both inside and outside Congress. Senior District Judge Richard Gergel heard oral argument on August 20, 2025 and that same day entered an order that led Mace to characterize the case as resolved in her favor; the full scope of the ruling, and whether any claims survive, is addressed below.
March 14, 2025 · Case
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
Russell Fry
U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 7th District who unseated an impeachment-vote Republican in 2022 and entered the 2026 special Senate race to succeed the late Lindsey Graham.
July 20, 2026 · Wiki
Kristi Harrington
Charleston attorney and former South Carolina Circuit Court judge (Ninth Judicial Circuit, 2008-2018), now a Supreme Court certified mediator and arbitrator, appointed by Judge Donald B. Hocker on June 16, 2026 to serve as the third-party neutral over the 11,000+ disputed electronic files in ADW v. Berg.
June 16, 2026 · Wiki
Judge Donald B. Hocker
South Carolina Circuit Court judge specially assigned by order of the Supreme Court of South Carolina to preside over the entire cluster of Charleston County cases tied to Rep. Nancy Mace and Patrick Bryant, including Berg v. Bryant (Case No. 2025-CP-10-03124).
June 12, 2026 · Wiki
Marybeth Mullaney
South Carolina plaintiff-side employment and civil rights attorney, founder of Mullaney Law, who serves as counsel of record for plaintiff Alexis Berg in Berg v. Bryant and ADW v. Berg.
June 12, 2026 · Wiki
Matthew P. Gallo
South Carolina trial attorney and partner at Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP who serves as co-counsel for Patrick Bryant alongside Nosizi Ralephata in Berg v. Bryant and ADW v. Berg.
June 12, 2026 · Wiki
Nosizi Ralephata
South Carolina trial attorney and partner at Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP who serves as lead civil defense counsel for Patrick Bryant in Berg v. Bryant.
June 12, 2026 · Wiki
Rene Stuhr Dukes
South Carolina attorney and shareholder at Saxton & Stump, LLC, who appears as counsel of record for Assignment Desk Works, LLC (ADW) in ADW v. Berg and for GLT2, LLC in Berg v. Bryant.
June 12, 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
Alex B. Cash
Alex B. Cash is a Mount Pleasant, SC family-law attorney and the founder of Cash Law Firm, LLC. He has been identified as family-law counsel for Melissa Britton.
June 10, 2026 · Wiki
Alexis 'Ali' Berg
Alexis 'Ali' Berg is the named plaintiff in Berg v. Bryant, No. 2025-CP-10-03124 (Charleston County Court of Common Pleas); she initially filed under the pseudonym 'Jane Doe' and has publicly contradicted the account that prompted the lawsuit.
June 10, 2026 · Wiki
Melissa Britton
Melissa Britton is a Charleston-area businesswoman who is named as a Third-Party Defendant in Berg v. Bryant, No. 2025-CP-10-03124 (Charleston County Court of Common Pleas), and who is separately the subject of a related civil matter, Bowman v. Britton, No. 2025-CP-10-04343.
June 10, 2026 · Wiki
Vicki Pittman
Vicki (Victoria) Pittman is a former housekeeper for Patrick Bryant whose sworn affidavit, describing a May 2025 encounter at Charleston International Airport in which she says Rep. Nancy Mace pressed her to corroborate personal allegations about Bryant, was submitted in the federal litigation over whether Mace acted within the scope of her congressional duties.
June 10, 2026 · Wiki
2026 Governor Campaign
Nancy Mace's candidacy for Governor of South Carolina in the 2026 election cycle.
June 9, 2026 · Wiki
Nancy Mace: Overview
A biographical overview of Nancy Mace, U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district and the first woman to graduate from The Citadel's Corps of Cadets.
June 9, 2026 · Wiki
Sam Staley
Sam Staley is a Charleston-area technology executive and a non-party witness whom Assignment Desk Works, LLC, the company of Rep. Nancy Mace's former fiancé Patrick Bryant, subpoenaed in Assignment Desk Works v. Berg, where a publicly filed motion to compel characterizes Staley as having connected Alexis Berg with Mace. The communications themselves were produced in discovery under a confidentiality designation and are not part of the public record; this entry summarizes only what the public court filing alleges.
March 19, 2026 · Wiki
F. Cordes Ford IV
F. Cordes Ford IV of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP (Charleston) appeared as counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace, as Intervenor, in Assignment Desk Works, LLC v. Berg, No. 2025-CP-10-2671, beginning March 2026, after Mace had spent the prior weeks representing herself pro se in the related litigation.
March 9, 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
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
Jerry Theos
Jerry N. Theos is a veteran Charleston criminal defense attorney who represented businessman Eric Bowman, one of the men Rep. Nancy Mace publicly named in her February 2025 House floor speech, and whose prior campaign fundraising for Ninth Circuit Solicitor Scarlett Wilson was reported as context in news coverage of the Bowman criminal proceedings.
August 20, 2025 · Wiki
Alex G. Anderson
Alex G. Anderson is a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington, D.C., who served as pro hac vice counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in Mace v. Bowman (No. 2025-CP-10-02733).
July 10, 2025 · Wiki
Ashleigh Messervy
Ashleigh Messervy is a South Carolina journalist and former girlfriend of Patrick Bryant whose sworn affidavit describes an August 2024 meeting at which she says Rep. Nancy Mace told her 'I hacked into his [Patrick's] computer and phone' and recounted a series of unproven allegations about Bryant.
June 30, 2025 · Wiki
Victoria W. Kurtz
Victoria W. Kurtz is an attorney at Johnston Law, LLC in Mount Pleasant, SC, who served as counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in the settlement-enforcement phase of Mace v. Bryant (No. 2024-CP-10-01725).
June 27, 2025 · Wiki
Kris Furniss
Kris Furniss is a Mount Pleasant, South Carolina man and the ex-husband of Patrick Bryant's girlfriend whose written statement, describing a series of contacts in which he says Rep. Nancy Mace warned him about Bryant using unverified allegations and on May 9, 2025 texted him that Bryant 'is being investigated for potential wrongdoing and crimes committed against me and other women', was submitted in the federal litigation over whether Mace acted within the scope of her congressional duties.
June 13, 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
Mary Grace W. Maybank
Mary Grace W. Maybank is an attorney at Wyndham Law Firm, LLC in Mount Pleasant, SC, who served as co-counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in GLT2, LLC v. Mace (No. 2025-CP-10-00981).
June 10, 2025 · Wiki
Robert J. Wyndham
Robert J. Wyndham is the founder of Wyndham Law Firm, LLC in Mount Pleasant, SC, who served as counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in both the GLT2 v. Mace matter (No. 2025-CP-10-00981) and Berg v. Bryant (No. 2025-CP-10-03124).
June 10, 2025 · Wiki
Neely Kelleher
Neely Kelleher is a South Carolina woman and former girlfriend of Patrick Bryant whose sworn affidavit, describing an August 2024 meeting at which she says Rep. Nancy Mace made unverified allegations about Bryant and admitted accessing his phone by 'guessing his passcode', was submitted as an exhibit in the federal Musgrave v. Mace litigation over whether Mace acted within the scope of her congressional duties.
May 27, 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
Andrew B. Moorman, Sr.
Founder of Moorman Law Firm, LLC in Greenville, SC, and lead South Carolina counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in the Mace v. Bowman defamation suit (2025).
May 12, 2025 · Wiki
Eric Bowman
Eric Bowman is a Charleston-area businessman whom Rep. Nancy Mace publicly named in a February 2025 House floor speech and later sued for defamation in May 2025; Bowman has denied the underlying allegations and disputed the suit.
May 12, 2025 · Wiki
Harley Hicks
Harley Hicks, a 20-year-old transgender USC student, was publicly directed anti-trans slurs by Rep. Nancy Mace at a campus event on April 21, 2025.
April 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
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
Glenn Meadows
Chief of Police of the Sullivan's Island Police Department whose department investigated and arrested Eric Bowman, one of the four men named in Rep. Nancy Mace's February 2025 House floor speech, on harassment and stalking charges.
April 8, 2025 · Wiki
Eric Bland
South Carolina trial attorney and founding partner of Bland Richter, LLP, who serves as co-counsel for Brian Musgrave in the defamation proceedings against Rep. Nancy Mace.
March 14, 2025 · Wiki
Ronnie Richter
South Carolina trial attorney and founding partner of Bland Richter, LLP, who serves as co-counsel for Brian Musgrave in the defamation proceedings against Rep. Nancy Mace.
March 14, 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
Patrick Bryant
Charleston-area entrepreneur and former fiancé of Nancy Mace who was publicly named in her February 10, 2025 House floor speech; Bryant categorically denies all allegations, no 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
Edward L. Phipps
Attorney at The Phipps Law Firm, LLC in Charleston, SC, who filed the partition complaint for Rep. Nancy Mace in Mace v. Bryant (2024).
April 2, 2024 · Wiki
Mark R. H. Huber
Attorney at The Phipps Law Firm, LLC in Charleston, SC, who served as co-counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in Mace v. Bryant (2024).
April 2, 2024 · Wiki
Jim May
Attorney at Wyche, P.A. in Columbia, SC, who served as co-counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in the property/partition dispute with Patrick Bryant through the January 2024 mediation.
January 8, 2024 · Wiki
John C. Moylan
Attorney at Wyche, P.A. in Columbia, SC, who served as co-counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in the property/partition dispute with Patrick Bryant, including the January 8, 2024 mediation.
January 8, 2024 · Wiki
Peter M. McCoy, Jr.
Principal at McCoy Law Group, LLC in Charleston, SC, former U.S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina, and former South Carolina state legislator, who served as co-counsel for Rep. Nancy Mace in the property/partition dispute with Patrick Bryant.
January 8, 2024 · Wiki
Dan Hanlon
Dan Hanlon served as chief of staff to Rep. Nancy Mace from 2021 until he was fired in December 2023, and was named in the Office of Congressional Conduct's 2025 reimbursement review as one of four individuals who refused to cooperate with investigators and were recommended for subpoena.
December 5, 2023 · 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 and Alan Wilson take their feud national as SC governor's race intensifies
The Post and Courier framed the dueling CNN appearances by Rep. Nancy Mace and Attorney General Alan Wilson as a nationally televised escalation of their rivalry in the 2026 South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. The two candidates appeared on the same CNN program on consecutive nights to trade accusations about the Charleston Airport incident.
December 10, 2025 · Media
CHS Airport police conclude investigation into Nancy Mace 'spectacle'
Spectrum News 1 reported on the conclusion of the Charleston Airport Police investigation into Rep. Nancy Mace's October 30 conduct, publishing Chief James Woods's full findings and noting both the airport's partial responsibility for a vehicle-color miscommunication and Mace's failure to follow checkpoint procedures.
December 10, 2025 · Media