Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) was one of a handful of House Republicans who signed onto the bipartisan discharge petition to compel the Trump administration to release the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files.
Now, White House staffers have put her on notice that she may have sealed doom for her ambition to be governor of South Carolina, NOTUS reported on Thursday.
"While Mace isn’t the only Republican who defied Trump by signing onto the petition, she is the only one currently seeking higher office, and the White House has taken note of that," noted the report. One White House staffer told NOTUS, “Helping Democrats deflect from Republican success is not a good GOP primary election strategy,” while another said they “couldn’t imagine a dumber strategy to get Trump’s endorsement than doing what she did this week.”
Mace is a survivor of sexual assault herself, and visibly broke down in emotion after a hearing on the extent of Epstein's crimes against young girls in September.
This comes as Mace has alienated a number of people in both parties with increasingly erratic behavior.
One of the most prominent cases was an altercation with airport security staff in Charleston, which caused Mace to melt down and post a continuous stream of attacks on social media, claiming the airport was lying and falsifying incident reports to make her look bad. She also claimed that Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) would never be treated this way, prompting the senator to make a public statement scolding her for her conduct toward federal workers.