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09/09/2026

Congresswoman Nancy Mace, who made her public r**e disclosure central to her 2020 congressional campaign, told journalist Tara Palmeri on September 1 that she would not recommend women come forward about s*xual assault.

The remark is a sharp reversal for a lawmaker who built much of her public identity on speaking openly as a survivor. In her own words:

"I don't know that I would recommend women come forward, because you're not going to get what you seek out of it. You will not get justice. You will not get an investigation, no matter how much evidence you give. I think it would be a miracle for any woman who does come forward about some kind of assault or some kind of Epstein-like s*xual predator type behavior. Uh, good luck."

She concluded: "They're going to pat you on the back and send you along your way, cuz they're just like, 'Oh, it's just sour gr**es. It's just he said, she said.' And, you know, shrug. No big deal. Boys being boys, girls being girls, you know, whatever."

Mace's advice to survivors now stands in direct contrast to the message of her 2020 campaign, when she chose to speak publicly about her own assault and made that story a defining part of her run for Congress.

Watch the full exchange at the timestamp below, and read the complete dispatch on Maceopedia.

Full interview: https://youtu.be/d6NdNFeONuU (15:05)
Full dispatch: maceopedia.org/dispatches/2026-09-01-mace-wouldnt-recommend-women-come-forward

09/09/2026

Nancy Mace told journalist Tara Palmeri on September 1, 2026 that being assaulted at 16 shaped who she became. A thousand percent, she said, when Palmeri asked how much of the public person was formed by what happened when she was younger.

She then said: I am going through something similar again. And why does this keep happening?

Mace did not specify what she was referring to. Her words are reported here as she said them.

The full passage from the interview: And I did not really realize it until I was in public office and in the public sphere. I did not realize how much of that, of myself, lent to when I was 16 years old and was assaulted. And then, you know, looking at it, 30 years later to have another traumatic event in my life. And I am sitting here thinking, what the hell? I am going through something similar again. And why does this keep happening?

She described what the experience instilled: I am a person that looks over my shoulder. I am distrusting of people because you have got to prove yourself. I am always constantly thinking about how is this person going to hurt me.

Later in the same interview she connected this to her legislative mission in her own words: I never got justice when I was 16. I never sought justice. And so being in a place of leadership and being in elected office where I could seek justice, not for myself necessarily, but for other people, women and children, specifically by the laws that I can draft, that to me has been a huge motivator in my work in public office.

She added: I have got dozens and dozens of bills relating to women and children and predators that are going after them. Zero of those bills became law in this Congress.

Full verbatim exchange: maceopedia.org/dispatches/2026-09-01-mace-16-years-old-assaulted

Source: Tara Palmeri Show, September 1, 2026 (full interview at youtu.be/d6NdNFeONuU, exchange at 3:06)

09/09/2026

Nancy Mace said Donald Trump is definitely part of figuring out who gets to stay and who gets to go.

Journalist Tara Palmeri asked her directly on September 1, 2026: Is Trump a part of the machine? This was Mace's answer.

She had just described the machine in concrete terms: When you go against the machine, the machine comes after you, and they come after you hard. They come after you until they run you out of office. She named Kevin McCarthy as still holding a personal grudge over her vote to remove him as Speaker, still talking trash on Fox News about a single vote.

She then named Trump's involvement with a specific example: a rally he held for a South Carolina Senate candidate, illustrating how picking works in practice.

Mace did not receive Trump's endorsement in her gubernatorial race. Trump backed another candidate. She finished fifth in the primary in June 2026 and is not seeking re-election to her House seat.

This exchange came after she had already said, earlier in the same interview, that she believes Trump is a good man: I think so. I think he has got it in his heart. And after she confirmed he punished her 100% for standing up for victims.

Her framework: the machine is how power works in Republican politics right now. She is not surprised by it. She described her current posture as running through the tape and helping her constituents for the remaining four months. I will feel much freer very soon when I get out of here January 3rd.

Full exchange on the record: maceopedia.org/dispatches/2026-09-01-mace-trump-is-the-machine

Source: Tara Palmeri Show, September 1, 2026 (full interview at youtu.be/d6NdNFeONuU, exchange at 12:02)

09/09/2026

Nancy Mace told TMZ on Capitol Hill: "I'd rather sit and feel a needle than go talk to a therapist. Like, there's something to be said for sitting there and feeling."

TMZ caught up with Mace on September 1, 2026, with puppy Millie in hand, after she revealed she has far more than nine tattoos. When the reporter noted she could do both tattooing and therapy, she declined: "No, not yet." She tied the tattooing directly to "the trauma I've been through the last three years" and described it as part of her healing process.

Her words, on camera, at the U.S. Capitol.

Credit: TMZ

Full verbatim exchange and dispatch: https://maceopedia.org/dispatches/2026-09-01-mace-needle-over-therapist

09/09/2026

It is also why I am leaving Congress, Nancy Mace told journalist Tara Palmeri on September 1, 2026. Because I cannot get s**t done.

The statement came mid-interview, during a passage about her frustration with the legislative process. Mace had been describing the passion behind her work on women's safety legislation and why that passion was no longer enough reason to stay.

Her full words in that passage: With some of the easiest bills to protect women and kids, we cannot even get a markup, a hearing on, let alone a vote on the floor, let alone try to get it through the Senate.

This is the same Congress in which she introduced 90 bills. Zero became law.

Mace has served South Carolina's 1st Congressional District since 2020. She lost the Republican gubernatorial primary in June 2026 and is not seeking re-election to her House seat. She will exit Congress on January 3rd.

She described the experience in the same interview as producing a mix of frustration and anticipated relief: I will feel much freer very soon when I get out of here January 3rd. I am just trying to make it through the next four months.

The moment was not a slip. It was a direct answer to the implicit question of what is driving her out. The inability to protect women and children through legislation is the stated reason, in her own words.

The quote also flowed directly into her self-assessment: she acknowledged she sometimes goes off the rails in her advocacy. She pushed back on the crazy label by arguing the system, not she, has gotten off the rails. Being nice has gotten us off the rails. I am just bringing back common sense.

Full verbatim exchange: maceopedia.org/dispatches/2026-09-01-mace-leaving-congress-cant-get-s**t-done

Source: Tara Palmeri Show, September 1, 2026 (full interview at youtu.be/d6NdNFeONuU, statement at 5:57)

09/09/2026

Nancy Mace told Tara Palmeri on September 1, 2026 that Donald Trump punished her for standing up for victims. Oh, 100%, she said.

Palmeri's question was direct: Do you think he ultimately punished you for standing up for the victims? Mace's answer was immediate and unequivocal.

Thirty seconds later, Palmeri asked: Is Donald Trump a good man? Mace: I think so. I think he has got it in his heart.

Mace did not elaborate on how she holds both assessments simultaneously. The interview did not press her further on the contradiction.

The victims in the exchange were the Epstein victims. Mace signed a discharge petition in 2023 to force a House vote on legislation for victims of Jeffrey Epstein's s*x trafficking network, breaking with Republican leadership. She described the political cost in the opening seconds of the interview: I signed the discharge petition for the Epstein victims, which is I gave up my political career for that discharge petition, and I would do it all over again.

The cost she describes was not abstract. She lost the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary in June 2026, finishing fifth. Trump held a rally for another candidate in the race. She received no endorsement.

In the same interview she described the broader pattern: When you go against the machine, the machine comes after you, and they come after you hard. They come after you until they run you out of office.

She believes he is a good man who punished her. Both things are her words, from the same 30-second window of the same conversation.

Full verbatim exchange: maceopedia.org/dispatches/2026-09-01-mace-trump-punished-100pct

Source: Tara Palmeri Show, September 1, 2026 (full interview at youtu.be/d6NdNFeONuU, opening exchange)

09/08/2026

Rep. Nancy Mace lost her cool on Jubilee Media's debate show "The Split." She had come on to argue that women's sports, and the WNBA in particular, are under threat from transgender athletes. Then progressive host David Mauricio asked her a simple question: has a trans athlete ever actually played in the WNBA? Her answer: "I have no idea. Not that we know of."

Over the next fifteen minutes the exchange came apart. Mace cursed on camera at least five times, and the profanity on both sides of the table pushed our on-screen cuss counter to six. She called the erosion of women's rights the work of "mentally ill men," and, asked to point to where that appears in the DSM, she could not, and the conservative co-host stepped in to concede, "I think you won't find that in the DSM." Asked point-blank who won the 2020 election, she would not answer. Reminded that she ran for South Carolina governor on trans issues and took 12% of the vote, she conceded: "Governor's race, yeah, I got my ass kicked."

When Mauricio asked how she squares her advocacy for assault survivors with standing behind Donald Trump, whom a jury found civilly liable for s*xual abuse, she told him: "I don't need a guy telling me what to do," and, moments later, "sit the f**k back down." As the segment ended she called him "the most venomous son of a bitch I have ever sat across."

Every quotation is verbatim from Jubilee Media's published video (host: David Mauricio, ). The full record, the transcript, and the on-screen "cuss counter" edit are at maceopedia.org.

09/08/2026

Nancy Mace told the Tara Palmeri Show she "left the campaign trail for about six weeks" after her father died - her explanation for losing the SC governor's race. The public record contradicts the timeline at every point.

Gen. J. Emory Mace, a Brigadier General and Citadel graduate, died on April 14, 2026 at 9:56 PM. His daughter had been running in the Republican primary for South Carolina governor.

Seven days after his death, on April 21, 2026, Nancy Mace appeared at the Sottile Theatre at the College of Charleston for the second SC Republican gubernatorial debate. All six candidates participated: Mace, Alan Wilson, Pamela Evette, Ralph Norman, Rom Reddy, and Josh Kimbrell. The debate ran from 7 to 8 PM and was covered by Fox Carolina, WMBF News, and Live 5 News. Her own campaign website published a post titled "Nancy Mace Takes Debate Stage."

Her father's funeral was two days after that debate: April 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM, Summerall Chapel at The Citadel.

She debated on April 21. Her father was buried on April 23. Her claim is that she left the campaign for "about six weeks."

Maceopedia's local X archive, which covers and from April 14 through the June 9 primary, shows full campaign activity by May 8 - 24 days after his death, not six weeks. On May 11, she posted that her mother was at the campaign office "addressing envelopes for bumper stickers." On May 15, one month after his death, she posted "Some call this a campaign. I call it a spiritual battle." On May 27, she posted "18 hours on the campaign trail today" and reported a standing-room-only event in Anderson.

Six weeks from April 14 is May 26. By May 26, Mace had been posting campaign content for three weeks. Early voting opened that morning and she was driving GOTV turnout.

All sources and the full documented timeline are at the link below. Every tweet is linked. Every debate source is linked. Readers can verify every item listed there.

Source: Tara Palmeri Show, September 1, 2026

maceopedia.org/dispatches/2026-09-04-mace-six-weeks-off-claim

It was not just an online story. The Post and Courier put it on the FRONT PAGE (Friday, May 23, 2025): Nancy Mace's form...
09/07/2026

It was not just an online story. The Post and Courier put it on the FRONT PAGE (Friday, May 23, 2025): Nancy Mace's former campaign strategist, Wesley Donehue, testified under oath that she asked him to 'blackmail' her former fiance over two jointly-held homes, using images she said she had found on his phone as leverage. Mace's office disputes the characterization 'blackmail'; the underlying allegations are contested and litigation is ongoing. Reporting by Caitlin Byrd, The Post and Courier.
Front page + full dispatch: https://maceopedia.org/dispatches/2025-05-23-donehue-blackmail-deposition

09/07/2026

Nancy Mace gets more tattoos, and she isn't going to stop. On Capitol Hill on September 1, 2026, TMZ asked about her tattoo count and she corrected it on camera: "I've got far more than nine, and I'm not done yet." She named two of them herself, a swallow and a "mama" heart, said she has "a huge list" more planned, and is "on the edge of maybe" going full-sleeve, with one firm limit: "nothing above the collarbone." The number has climbed in public all year: nine (Politico, Feb 27), "more than nine" (NewsNation, Aug 30), now "far more than nine" (TMZ, Sept 1).

Full dispatch and the running tattoo catalog: https://maceopedia.org/dispatches/2026-09-01-mace-more-tattoos-not-stopping

Source: TMZ, "Rep. Nancy Mace Shows Off Tattoos, Says More Ink Is Coming," Sept 1, 2026. NewsNation Live, Aug 30, 2026.

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