After President Donald Trump endorsed South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pam Evette in the crowded gubernatorial primary on Friday, all eyes turned to Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who has been running a very intense campaign for the same office and casting herself as a MAGA warrior.
Mace, writing on X, blamed the snub on her support for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein trafficking case files — and insisted she didn't want the endorsement if that's what robbed her of it.
"I know I put the likelihood of an endorsement on the line when I demanded transparency on the Epstein files," wrote Mace. "I demanded it because you deserved the truth — ALL OF IT — and as a survivor of a corrupt and broken court system, I will always pursue justice for those who deserve it."
"If sacrificing my values is the price of an endorsement, I will never pay it," she concluded.
Also snubbed out of an endorsement was Rep. Ralph Norman, a fellow South Carolina lawmaker who was enthusiastically cheerleading Trump's push to redraw congressional districts and delete majority-Black seats to give more to Republicans. That push in South Carolina died earlier this week, at least for now, as Republicans conceded they didn't have time this session.