Washington (AP) – Republican MP Nancy Mace from South Carolina runs for the governor and enters into a GOP primary school in which the competition around President Donald Trump – and the support of his base of the supporters – will be violent.
Mace, who won her third term in South Carolinas 1st District last year, officially completed her run at the Citadel Military College in Charleston on Monday. She plans to start a nationwide series of town halls with an event in Myrtle Beach later this week.
“I know for the governor because South Carolina does not need another empty suit and needs a governor who is fighting for her and her values,” said Mace. “South Carolina needs a governor who will pull the truth into sunlight and turn the tables over when it is.”
Mace announced The Associated Press on Sunday that she plans a multi -stage platform, some of which aims to support the state’s criminal judiciary, to end South Carolina’s income tax, to protect women and children, to expand the selection of school and vocational training and to improve the state’s energy options.
The official submission of the elections in South Carolina in 2026 only opened in March, but several other Republicans are already open to the state’s first race in 16 years, including Attorney General Alan Wilson, Lt. Governor Pamela Evette and Rep. Ralph Norman.
Both Wilson and Evette have advertised their own connections to the Republican President, but Mace, who calls himself “Trump in High Heels”, said that she was best positioned to carry out his agenda in South Carolina, where he has contributed to this since his state primary victory in 2016 in the determination of his status as a GOP presidential candidate.
Mace said she planned to apply for his support and pointed out in an interview with her defense of Trump, which meant that ABC News agreed to pay 15 million US dollars for his presidential library in order to pay a defamation. She also noticed that she called Trump as part of the efforts to convince GOP -HOLDOUTS to support Rep. Mike Johnson to become a house speaker.
“Nobody will work harder to attract their attention and confirmation,” she said. “Nobody else in this race can say that he was there for the president like me, just like me and worked as hard as I had to get the president that his agenda was admitted to him in the White House.”
Mace was largely supported by Trump and worked for his 2016 campaign, but after January 6, 2021, criticized him to support violence in the US Capitol, which Trump helped to support a GOP challenger in her 2022 race. Mace defeated this opponent, won the re -election and was approved by Trump in her 2024 campaign.
A month after she told the AP in January that she was “seriously thinking about a run”, Mace went on an almost one-hour speech on the US House floor to accuse her ex-fiancée, to abuse her ex-fiscal, to abuse her physically, sex files and sexual electrical protocols, and to consolidate yourself with economic fighting and with economic fighting and to give sexual mistakes.
Mace’s ex-fishing said that he had categorically denied the allegations, and another man who mentioned had sued for defamation and argued that the allegations were a “dangerous mix of falsehoods and unfounded allegations”.
“I want every South Carolinian to watch me as a victim for my right battles,” said Mace, asked if she was concerned about legal disputes in connection with the speech. “I want you to know that I will fight for you as hard for you as I fight for myself.”
The 47 -year -old mace was the first woman to complete the citadel, the state’s military, college of the state, where her father then acted as the commander of the cadets. After serving in the State House briefly, she was the first Republican woman in 2020 to represent the Congress in South Carolina and, after a term of office, turned the 1st district with a democratic representative.
“I will pull the border and I will hold it for South Carolina and I will put her people in the first place,” said Mace.
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