Then & Now: The Record, Side by Side
Nancy Mace’s own dated public statements, placed next to one another. Every line below is verbatim from a sourced entry on this site or, where a single quotation does not capture the position cleanly, an attributed description of the dated record, and every cell links to the dispatch or hub it is drawn from.
The Phone and the Files
In sworn affidavits and deposition testimony, people who spoke with Mace in 2023 and 2024 gave their own accounts of how she described accessing her former fiance Patrick Bryant’s phone; in her own sworn court filings she gives a different account and denies hacking. Each witness statement is that witness’s own sworn allegation, which Mace denies; no court has made any finding of fact on them.
Full record: the complete table, with the filings themselves reproduced and linked, is at The Phone & the Files.
January 6 and Donald Trump
In the days after the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack, Mace publicly said Trump’s legacy had been “entirely wiped out” and that he had no future in the Republican Party. Three years later, before the 2024 primaries, she endorsed him over fellow South Carolinian Nikki Haley.
Full record: the 2021 dispatches and the 2024 endorsements, with each interview linked above.
Alan Wilson
For most of the 2026 governor’s race, Attorney General Alan Wilson was Mace’s chief rival and the target of some of her sharpest attacks. After she finished fifth in the June 9, 2026 primary, she conceded and endorsed him. Wilson has rejected her attacks throughout, his office said she “drastically mischaracterized” the prosecution data she cited, and nothing here is a finding about either man’s conduct.
Full record: the endorsement dispatch and the earlier attacks. Watch the statements intercut in the then-and-now clip.
Abortion
Across the period after the leaked Dobbs draft and into the 2024 cycle, Mace described her position on abortion on national television. Her dated statements on rape exceptions, on Republican messaging, and on a state-by-state approach are set beside one another below.
Full record: the 2022 Face the Nation dispatch, the 2023 ABC dispatch, and the 2024 CNN dispatch.
The Gag Order and What Followed
A November 26, 2025 gag order in Berg v. Bryant bars every party from commenting on any aspect of the case. A January 12, 2026 contempt motion alleges that several of Mace’s later public statements violated it; that allegation is contested and undecided, no court has entered a contempt finding, and Mace contends the order is itself “overly broad, unconstitutional, and unenforceable.” The order’s verbatim scope is set beside two of those later statements below.
Full record: the order, the contempt motion’s account, and the running log are at the gag-order hub.
“A Leading Voice for Women’s Issues” and the Record
In October 2024 Mace described herself as “THE LEADING VOICE” on women’s issues in her party. Set beside that self-description are two dated, attributed pointers into the contested record, the leaked first call she placed to Patrick Bryant’s former employee, and the predator poster outside her office. Both involve allegations that are unproven and contested; the named parties deny wrongdoing.
Full record: the leaked first call and the predator-poster incident.
These are quotations and dated public records, not findings. The allegations underlying the litigation are unproven and contested. Mace denies Bryant’s claims; Bryant and the other named parties deny Mace’s allegations; no criminal charges have been filed and no underlying matter has been adjudicated. The cases referenced above are ongoing. Nothing here is a finding of fact.