{"id":13974,"date":"2026-06-10T20:31:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=13974"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:31:59","slug":"nancy-maces-unpredictable-career-is-up-in-the-air-after-finishing-last-in-south-carolina-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=13974","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Mace\u2019s unpredictable career is up in the air after finishing last in South Carolina primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

By JEFFREY COLLINS and MEG KINNARD<\/strong><\/p>\n

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) \u2014 After a decade of roiling South Carolina and national politics, Rep. Nancy Mace finished a distant fifth in her state\u2019s Republican primary for governor, leaving an uncertain future for one of the nation\u2019s unabashed politicians.<\/p>

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Her campaign mirrored her whipsaw career. Mace courted the support of President Donald Trump after harshly criticizing him over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. She emphasized her fights with other Republicans to release files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.<\/p>\n

In the final days before Tuesday\u2019s primary, she called for a law to prevent anyone not born in the U.S. from holding political office or serving as a judge. She suggested that Rom Reddy, another candidate for governor, wasn\u2019t qualified because he was a naturalized citizen whose mother was from India and father from Italy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t come out of a slum in India,\u201d Mace said during an appearance in Greenville County this month. \u201cI am born and made here in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the end of her campaign, she was only making sporadic public appearances. She struggled to raise money and had no presence on television. Mace mostly communicated through social media \u2014 a place she has used to her advantage since first being elected to the South Carolina House in 2017.<\/p>\n

Mace didn\u2019t give an indication of her next plans in her concession speech Tuesday night, although she posted Wednesday on social media that she was \u201cheaded back to the private sector\u201d at the end of her current House term. She is backing Alan Wilson in the runoff for governor, even though just last year she accused Wilson of protecting child sex abuse defendants.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen children needed him to act, Wilson looked the other way,\u201d she said.<\/p>

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Wilson will face Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette in the runoff on June 23. Evette received Trump\u2019s endorsement, spurring Mace to lash out on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cPamela Evette is NOT ENDORSED by DONALD TRUMP,\u201d Mace wrote, incorrectly. \u201cDo not believe her LIES.\u201d Mace posted an AI-generated image of herself posing with Trump.<\/p>\n

Where does Mace stand with Trump?<\/h4>\n

Mace\u2019s history with Trump goes back a decade, and, like many Republicans, it\u2019s had its ups and downs.<\/p>\n