{"id":118113,"date":"2025-08-04T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118113\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:55:10","slug":"nancy-mace-launches-campaign-for-south-carolina-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/118113\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Mace launches campaign for South Carolina governor"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Rep. Nancy Mace<\/a>\u00a0is aiming high, officially throwing her hat in the ring for the South Carolina 2026 gubernatorial race to succeed term-limited incumbent Gov. Henry McMaster (R).<\/p>\n

Mace (R-SC) announced her campaign Monday after weeks of sending strong signals that she intended to vie for her state\u2019s governor\u2019s mansion, vowing to usher in the state\u2019s \u201cGolden Age.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m running to put South Carolina first,\u201d she said in a statement first obtained by Fox News.<\/p>\n

South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace has been teasing a gubernatorial run for weeks. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Mace ripped the state\u2019s current\u00a0\u201cweak leadership,\u201d arguing that \u201cwe can continue doing the things we\u2019ve always done \u2026\u00a0Or we can chart a new course \u2013 one filled with common sense and bold policies to hold the line for South Carolina.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her newly launched campaign website quickly\u00a0blasted out\u00a0a video featuring news headlines acknowledging how the \u201cfirebrand\u201d rep\u00a0had drawn ire from members of her\u00a0own\u00a0party.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomething is broken in South Carolina. They said\u00a0stay\u00a0quiet,\u00a0I\u00a0spoke up.\u00a0They said\u00a0play\u00a0nice, I fought back.\u00a0They said sit down, and I stood up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cCorruption, chaos, cowardice \u2014 I\u2019ve seen it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGet ready\u00a0South\u00a0Carolina. This isn\u2019t just a campaign, this is a calling.\u00a0You and me, this\u00a0is where our mission begins.\u00a0God\u2019s not done with South Carolina\u00a0and\u00a0neither am I,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Her formal campaign launch is set to take place at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, where she graduated in 1999 as the\u00a0first female graduate<\/a>\u00a0from its Corps of Cadets,\u00a0on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Nancy Mace is set to formally debut her gubernatorial campaign at The Citadel. Citadel Military College of South Carolina<\/p>\n

Following her formal campaign debut, Mace is set to embark on what she has billed the \u201cMother of ALL Town Halls Tour,\u201d starting in Myrtle Beach on Wednesday, kicking off her barnstorming of the state.<\/p>\n

The three-term congresswoman has served in the House since 2021, where she quickly\u00a0rose\u00a0to national prominence and\u00a0made a name for\u00a0herself as one of the more outspoken members of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

The South Carolina\u00a0rep\u00a0previously served in the state house from\u00a02018\u20132020, after unsuccessfully challenging Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) during his 2014 reelection bid.<\/p>\n

Mace endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. Nancy Mace<\/p>\n

She now faces a growing field of candidates on the Republican side, including fellow Rep. Ralph Norman, state Sen. Josh Kimbrell, state Attorney General Alan Wilson\u00a0and\u00a0Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette.<\/p>\n

Mace has already traded barbs with some of her competitors, namely Wilson, whom she publicly accused of ignoring evidence she presented alleging she suffered sexual abuse from her ex-fiance and others.<\/p>\n

Wilson has called those claims \u201ccategorically false,\u201d and Mace is facing a\u00a0defamation suit<\/a>\u00a0over the accusations.<\/p>\n

Some polling has pegged Mace as the frontrunner, but indicates that many South Carolinians\u00a0do not\u00a0have\u00a0their minds\u00a0made up\u00a0yet.\u00a0A\u00a0Targoz Market Research poll, for example<\/a>, found Mace with a slight lead, but also found\u00a0over\u00a0half of GOP primary voters were undecided.<\/p>\n

Looming over the race will likely be whether President Trump makes a formal endorsement. At the start of her tenure in Congress, Mace criticized Trump for his role in the Jan. 6,\u00a02021\u00a0Capitol riot, though she later voted against impeaching him.<\/p>\n

This prompted Trump to endorse former South Carolina Rep.\u00a0Katie Arrington (R) during the 2022 midterm elections. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Last year, Mace endorsed Trump over her former home state\u00a0Gov.\u00a0Nikki Haley in the 2024 presidential primary.\u00a0Notably, her fellow congressional foe, Norman, backed Haley and was the only sitting House Republican besides Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) to do so.<\/p>\n

Over recent years, Mace has drawn national attention for wading into the culture wars. Last year, for example, she crusaded to ensure that women\u2019s facilities would be restricted to biological women after the election of Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first openly transgender member of the House.<\/p>\n

Back in 2023, she shocked observers by joining with a band of seven other hardcore conservatives led by former firebrand Rep. Matt Gaetz to oust then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)<\/p>\n

South Carolina is largely a Republican stronghold state, meaning the winner of the GOP primary is heavily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Rep. Nancy Mace\u00a0is aiming high, officially throwing her hat in the ring for the South Carolina 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[327,90,3153,50,80,5620,3036,67,132,68,1154],"class_list":{"0":"post-118113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"category-us","9":"tag-congress","10":"tag-elections","11":"tag-governor","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-republicans","15":"tag-south-carolina","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114970369988278699","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}