Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nancy-mace" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Mace</a> (R-SC) tore into George Stephanopoulos on Sunday after the ABC News anchor asked her to square her endorsement of former President Donald Trump with coming forward as a victim of rape.
&#8220;I’m not going to sit here on your show and be asked a question meant to shame me about another potential rape victim. I’m not going to do that,&#8221; Mace said on &#8220;This Week.&#8221;
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I was brought on to talk about 2024…instead Clinton crony turned fake journalist <a href="https://twitter.com/GStephanopoulos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Gstephanopoulos</a> attacked me and tried to shame me as a rape victim. 
Gross.<a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ThisWeekABC</a> <a href="https://t.co/9uNhypsZdO">pic.twitter.com/9uNhypsZdO</a>
&mdash; Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) <a href="https://twitter.com/NancyMace/status/1766840801642885301?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The tense interview began with ABC showing a clip of Mace talking in 2o19 about the struggles women such as herself have experienced in speaking publicly about being raped.
Stephanopoulos then pressed the congresswoman to explain her support of Trump given her personal history and the former president being <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jury-rules-trump-committed-battery-on-e-jean-carroll-defamed-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found liable</a> for sexual abuse and defamation in a case brought by E. Jean Carroll.
For several minutes, Stephanopoulos kept trying to get Mace to answer the question, denying he was trying to humiliate the congresswoman while she argued that was exactly what he was doing.
Mace insisted the question was &#8220;offensive&#8221; and &#8220;disgusting.&#8221; She added, &#8220;You&#8217;re questioning my political choices because I&#8217;ve been raped.&#8221;
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During the exchange, Mace noted that the judgement against Trump was in a civil case rather than a criminal one and pointed to how Carroll <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/penthouse-its-yours-e-jean-carroll-quips-about-spending-spree-with-trump-judgment-cash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joked</a> about a spending spree with the judgement money she was awarded.
&#8220;It makes it harder for other women to come forward when another woman has made a mockery of it,&#8221; Mace said.
In sharing insight into her pick for president in the 2024 contest, Mace said she &#8220;endorsed the man that I believe is best for our country. It&#8217;s not Joe Biden.&#8221;
The interview eventually gave way to Stephanopoulos pressing Mace on the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6, 2021, and showing a clip of her saying not long after that Trump should be held accountable and not hold office again.
Asked why she is supporting Trump now, Mace said that she &#8220;listened to my voters&#8221; in South Carolina &#8220;and they&#8217;ve moved beyond January 6.&#8221;
Mace also said her constituents are concerned about the border crisis under President Joe Biden, and she mentioned American citizens, such as Laken Riley, who were allegedly murdered by illegal immigrants.
The interview ended with Stephanopoulos claiming that Mace &#8220;made it very clear&#8221; that she was &#8220;comfortable with Trump being found liable for rape and you&#8217;re comfortable for his actions on January 6.&#8221;
Mace shot back, accusing Stephanopoulos of &#8220;putting words in my mouth.&#8221;
In posts to social media that followed, Mace shared the entire video of her interview with Stephanopoulos and continued to criticize the anchor. She included references to him being an aide to former President Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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Rape victims go through enough trauma, pain and shame as it is. It&#39;s an abomination for a guy like this to try to shame me for my political choices as a rape victim. <a href="https://t.co/f3ZjXEgfGb">https://t.co/f3ZjXEgfGb</a>
&mdash; Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) <a href="https://twitter.com/NancyMace/status/1766843630856122654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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I’m not going to be shamed for being raped by a guy who worked for a President who wagged his finger and lied to the American people about having oral sex with an intern in the Oval Office…
STFU <a href="https://twitter.com/GStephanopoulos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GStephanopoulos</a> <a href="https://t.co/xq8NVqgQin">https://t.co/xq8NVqgQin</a>
&mdash; Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) <a href="https://twitter.com/NancyMace/status/1766844294659297525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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I was asked to speak on 2024 today, NOT my own rape. I’ve carried this shame for 30 years, a shame George Stephanopolous will never know. I don’t need <a href="https://twitter.com/GStephanopolous?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@gstephanopolous</a> “mansplaining” rape to me or shaming me on national TV for being a survivor of rape. <a href="https://t.co/f3ZjXEgfGb">https://t.co/f3ZjXEgfGb</a>
&mdash; Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) <a href="https://twitter.com/NancyMace/status/1766859012643951023?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I was asked to speak on 2024 today, NOT my own rape. I’ve carried this shame for 30 years, a shame George Stephanopolous will never know,&#8221; Mace said in one post to X from her personal account. &#8220;I don’t need [Stephanopoulos] &#8216;mansplaining&#8217; rape to me or shaming me on national TV for being a survivor of rape.&#8221;
She said in another, &#8220;I was brought on to talk about 2024…instead Clinton crony turned fake journalist [Stephanopoulos] attacked me and tried to shame me as a rape victim. Gross.&#8221;

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C.

Nancy Mace Rips George Stephanopoulos Over Tense Interview About Trump: ‘Tried To Shame Me As A Rape Victim’

Nancy Mace Rips George Stephanopoulos Over Tense Interview About Trump: 'Tried To Shame Me As A Rape Victim'

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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) announced her support for Donald Trump on Monday, landing the former president yet another endorsement from the home state of Republican primary opponent Nikki Haley.
Mace&#8217;s announcement follows South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott (R) throwing his support to Trump on Friday. The former president has further secured the endorsements of South Carolina Republican Reps. Russell Fry, Joe Wilson, and William Timmons.
Mace <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/22/election-2024-trump-mace-endorsement/00cc097c-b927-11ee-b176-fe5fd794e716_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Associated Press on Tuesday, one day ahead of the New Hampshire primary, that she&#8217;s supporting Trump over Haley. Notably, Haley lives in Mace&#8217;s congressional district and backed Mace in 2022 against a Trump-supported challenger, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/22/election-2024-trump-mace-endorsement/00cc097c-b927-11ee-b176-fe5fd794e716_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
“I don’t see eye to eye perfectly with any candidate. And until now I’ve stayed out of it. But the time has come to unite behind our nominee,&#8221; Mace said.
Haley, who served as South Carolina&#8217;s governor from 2011 to 2017, is the last Republican remaining in the 2024 primary to oppose Trump, following Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announcing the suspension of his presidential bid on Sunday.
Haley has put her focus on Tuesday&#8217;s New Hampshire primary, where voters tend to be more moderate and unaffiliated voters are allowed to cast votes in the Republican primary. Still, Trump is the favorite in the race, with a recent CNN <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/ahead-of-new-hampshire-primary-underdog-nikki-haley-gets-one-on-one-race-with-donald-trump-74ee1bf2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> putting him ahead of Haley 50% to 39%.
The South Carolina primary will be held next month, and Haley is again behind Trump. In polling, which was notably taken before DeSantis&#8217; campaign suspension, Trump leads with 64% to Haley&#8217;s 25%. DeSantis polled at 8%. Even if Haley fully picked up Desantis&#8217; supporters, she would still fall short of Trump.
Sen. Scott on Friday came out swinging for Trump, arguing that his leadership in the White House is needed for our country.
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“We need a president who will close our southern border today,” he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sen-tim-scott-endorses-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> during a campaign stop with Trump. “We need Donald Trump. We need a president who will unite our country. We need Donald Trump. We need a president who will protect your Social Security and my mama’s Social Security. We need Donald Trump, who will stop the crime and recklessness in the streets. We need a president who will restore law and order. We need a president who will lower taxes and not raise our taxes.”
DeSantis, too, backed Trump in remarks he made Sunday. &#8220;It&#8217;s clear to me that a majority of Republican primary voters want to give Donald Trump another chance. They watched his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance, and they see Democrats using lawfare this day to attack him,&#8221; the Florida governor said. &#8220;I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee, and I will honor that pledge.&#8221;
DeSantis also took a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-suspends-2024-presidential-campaign-endorses-trump">swipe</a> at Haley, saying he backed Trump &#8220;because we can&#8217;t go back to the old Republican Guard of yesteryear, a repackaged form of warmed over corporatism that Nikki Haley represents.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ben-shapiro-reveals-his-takeaway-from-iowa-caucuses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro Reveals His Takeaway From Iowa Caucuses</a>

Trump Picks Up Another Endorsement In Nikki Haley’s Home State

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It was just a few days ago that a Republican lawmaker from South Carolina named Nancy Mace <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MattWalshBlog/videos/im-embarrassed-by-this-moment-from-nancy-mace/253191271140537/">invoked</a> the invented concept of &#8220;white privilege&#8221; in a congressional hearing. She was supposedly trying to put Hunter Biden in his place by saying that he&#8217;s the beneficiary of &#8220;white privilege,&#8221; because he can ignore subpoenas without suffering any consequences. But as I explained on the show at the time, all Nancy Mace did was legitimize the Left&#8217;s framing, which is fundamentally anti-white and fraudulent. Hunter Biden does not benefit from his skin color. He benefits from the fact he&#8217;s the son of the president of the United States. Everyone knows that.
So all Nancy Mace accomplished was reinforcing a false narrative that demonizes millions of white people, and accuses them of having unearned privilege simply because they were born with a certain skin color. She also derailed the entire hearing by allowing Democrats like AOC to harp on their own personal definitions of &#8220;white privilege.&#8221;
As counterproductive and idiotic as Nancy Mace&#8217;s stunt was, it does need to be said that it wasn&#8217;t that surprising. Nancy Mace isn&#8217;t exactly a staunch, far-right conservative. She raised money for Liz Cheney, came out in support of the so-called &#8220;LGBTQ movement,&#8221; and voted to hold former Trump adviser Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress. This is the track record of someone you might expect to adopt the Left&#8217;s narrative on &#8220;white privilege,&#8221; because she&#8217;s adopted so many of the Left&#8217;s other narratives.
The much bigger issue is that Nancy Mace is just one example of a larger problem in the Republican Party — one that affects politicians we&#8217;re told are considerably smarter, and more right-of-center, than Nancy Mace.
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Take Matt Gaetz, for example. Gaetz obviously doesn&#8217;t comply with the Left&#8217;s new speech codes. He publicly humiliated Mark Milley, who was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff at the time, for teaching soldiers about &#8220;white rage.&#8221; He also led the effort to oust House Speaker Kevin McCarthy because he wasn&#8217;t sufficiently committed to the &#8220;America First&#8221; movement. All this is to say, Matt Gaetz is the last person you&#8217;d expect to pull a Nancy Mace and start adopting the Left&#8217;s framing on identity politics.
But this week, that&#8217;s exactly what Matt Gaetz did.
Appearing on Newsmax, Gaetz began talking about Donald Trump&#8217;s big win in the Iowa Caucuses. And he said that, based on his experience on the ground in Iowa, Trump is attracting more &#8220;diverse&#8221; voters, meaning voters who aren&#8217;t white. And Matt Gaetz presented this as a good thing. Here&#8217;s how he phrased it:
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“For every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamaal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement. That abodes well for our ability to be diverse and durable.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/fslOPui91c">pic.twitter.com/fslOPui91c</a>
&mdash; Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href="https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1747995588627489024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“For every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamaal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement.” If we decode the language there, Matt Gaetz is saying that in the freezing tundra of Iowa, he apparently didn&#8217;t see a lot of white women. But he did see tons of Hispanics and black people coming out for Donald Trump. They were presumably waving their MAGA flags around in the blizzard conditions or whatever.
Even if you pretend that&#8217;s true, which it clearly isn&#8217;t, the language Matt Gaetz used in that clip tells you a lot. No Republican, Matt Gaetz included, would ever dream of speaking this way about black voters in the reverse. You aren&#8217;t going to hear Gaetz say of black voters who don&#8217;t vote Republican (which is the vast majority): &#8220;Oh we don&#8217;t need those Jamals. We&#8217;ve got plenty of white people to take their place.&#8221; He&#8217;s only going to talk like that about white women, or &#8220;Karens,&#8221; as he calls them.
Here is a Republican who is even considered (wrongly, I think) to be &#8220;far right&#8221; who has entirely adopted the Left&#8217;s anti-white rhetoric and racial double standards. That&#8217;s how pervasive this stuff is. He&#8217;s happy to attack &#8220;Karens,&#8221; but he&#8217;d never do the same in reverse, because then he&#8217;d be called a racist. And he can&#8217;t have that.
The other remarkable thing about this clip is how it inverts all of the conservative arguments we&#8217;ve been hearing for the past several years. We went from Democrats denying that the Great Replacement was happening, to admitting it and saying it&#8217;s good, to Republicans also agreeing that it&#8217;s good and advocating for a Great Replacement in their own party. But along with being objectionable, this is also politically suicidal. It actually isn&#8217;t at all even close to true that for every white female voter Republicans lose, they&#8217;re replacing her with a black voter. White women still support Republicans in far, far greater numbers than black males. It&#8217;s not even close. As Ann Coulter has pointed out many times, the <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/21/trump-white-voters-support-418420">only group</a> Trump lost ground with in 2020 was white people — specifically <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-support-demographics-white-men-exit-poll-1545144">white men</a>. And yet Republicans have apparently decided that the key to victory is to pander for the minority vote while alienating their key constituency.
Whatever explains this self-defeating embrace of identity politics among conservatives, it&#8217;s definitely catching on. It&#8217;s not just Nancy Mace and Matt Gaetz doing it. In that same hearing where Nancy Mace talked about &#8220;white privilege,&#8221; Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that Hunter Biden was afraid of her because she&#8217;s a strong, independent woman. Watch:
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She actually said that, as if it was some kind of devastating insult. &#8220;He&#8217;s not afraid because he&#8217;s a criminal; he&#8217;s afraid because we&#8217;re girlbosses.&#8221; That&#8217;s the idea. It&#8217;s hard to think of a better way to torpedo the case against Hunter Biden than to use lines like this. When you have a strong case against someone, you don&#8217;t say they&#8217;re afraid because you&#8217;re a woman. You say they&#8217;re afraid because of the damning facts and evidence you&#8217;ve assembled. This is the exact opposite of what Republicans should have done in this hearing, but one after another, they did it. They kept commiting to these vapid displays of identity politics, over and over again.
And it&#8217;s not just confined to that one hearing, or to Matt Gaetz interviews. By now we&#8217;re all familiar at this point with Nikki Haley&#8217;s constant use of identity politics during this campaign. In case you somehow missed it, here&#8217;s a mercifully short clip to show you what I&#8217;m talking about:
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Just like the remarks from Nancy Mace or Marjorie Taylor Greene or Matt Gaetz, this is totally indistinguishable from something AOC might say. It&#8217;s the most cliched form of gender politics imaginable. It&#8217;s not just stupid. It adopts the Left&#8217;s narrative that immutable characteristics — like skin color or gender — matter more than anything else. This is a narrative that has cost millions of people jobs, college admissions, contracting jobs, federal financial assistance, and so on. It has been a disaster for this country and it needs to stop. Instead of saying that, Republicans are embracing it. They&#8217;re reinforcing it at every opportunity.
Why is this happening? It&#8217;s possible that we&#8217;re seeing yet another cynical attempt to win over voters. Maybe that&#8217;s the explanation. But if that&#8217;s the case, it&#8217;s obviously a bad idea. You might remember that Donald Trump devoted years of his presidency to pushing something called &#8220;The First Step Act,&#8221; which Matt Gaetz promoted. The Trump team even ran a Super Bowl ad featuring a drug trafficker that Trump let out of prison. The idea, according to Trump&#8217;s inner circle, was to improve the GOP&#8217;s voting share among black Americans. Of course it didn&#8217;t work. Black voters in 2020 did what they&#8217;ve done in every modern election, which is vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. Trump got basically the same percentage of the black vote that George W. Bush did back in 2004. 
So if identity politics is a ploy for votes, it doesn&#8217;t seem likely to work. Identity politics from the Right doesn&#8217;t appear to convince anyone. But if you take a few steps back, it&#8217;s not hard to see that identity politics is just one part of a much larger problem among conservatives. Increasingly, conservatives are embracing the narratives of the Left, wholesale, even when they&#8217;re complete lies. We saw that when Nikki Haley mourned the death of George Floyd. She immediately bought the official narrative, and then she went on to say — as American cities were burning down — that George Floyd&#8217;s death needed to be &#8220;personal and painful for every American.&#8221; We also saw this from Mitt Romney, who marched with BLM, and even chanted their slogans. 
And just the other day, we saw something similar from Ron DeSantis at a CNN town hall. Watch as CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer asks DeSantis a question that&#8217;s premised on a completely false narrative. And then notice that Ron DeSantis doesn&#8217;t push back at all:
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DeSantis wasn’t briefed on the border hoax?
He immediately assumes that CNN is telling the truth, when they were lying. Smearing innocent Texas who are defending this country and the border.
I can’t believe it. How did DeSantis not know this! 
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&mdash; Cernovich (@Cernovich) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1747708528327033304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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As Mike Cernovich pointed out on X, this is completely inexcusable. CNN is flat-out lying about what happened. And in response, maybe because no one briefed him on this, DeSantis just accepts the premise, which originated from the Biden White House, even though it was completely wrong. What happened is that the White House originally claimed that quote, &#8220;a woman and two children drowned near Eagle Pass, and Texas officials blocked U.S. Border Patrol from attempting to provide emergency assistance.” That was the report that millions of people heard from CBS News, which broadcast the narrative first.
But shortly afterwards, Joe Biden&#8217;s DOJ contradicted that version of events entirely. As Fox&#8217;s Bill Melugin pointed out, the DOJ made it clear that quote, &#8220;The migrants had already drowned at 8 p.m., and the Border Patrol didn’t inform Texas until an hour later at 9 p.m. &#8230; The DOJ now confirms, those migrants had been deceased for an hour before Texas was even alerted about it.&#8221;
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So it&#8217;s just like the false claims that the Border Patrol had &#8220;whipped&#8221; illegal migrants, as Bill Melugin pointed out. The narrative is just a total lie, as the Biden administration itself admitted. But even after the DOJ admitted that, CNN asked Ron DeSantis about it on the debate stage. And everyone pretended it was true. It&#8217;s embarrassing for the DeSantis campaign, for CNN, and for everyone else involved in this moment. But even if the narrative were true — even if illegal migrants had died who could have been saved — it still wouldn&#8217;t mean anything. It would be one anecdote that doesn&#8217;t tell us anything about immigration policy more generally. But the point is that conservatives reflexively accept the version of events they&#8217;re given. They don&#8217;t define the narrative. They just play along with the narrative they&#8217;re given. The fact that it&#8217;s getting harder and harder to find exceptions to this rule is not a good sign for the modern conservative movement.
But the other day, we saw one of these rare exceptions, courtesy of UFC fighter Sean Strickland. Strickland is an American who just arrived in Toronto for the UFC fights this weekend. Here&#8217;s how he handled a member of the Canadian press, who tried to corner him with the same kind of dumb gotcha questions that you&#8217;ve heard a million times before. Watch:
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Idk who this guy is and I don&#39;t care but you&#39;re not a man&#8230; But you&#39;d take that as a compliment&#8230;.. <a href="https://t.co/PMR1h4Yp7K">pic.twitter.com/PMR1h4Yp7K</a>
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How many conservative politicians could hold their ground in a situation like that, and affirm — in the face of an &#8220;ally&#8221; of the LBGTQIA+ community — that transgenderism is a mental illness? You could probably count the number on one hand, if that.
Notice how Sean Strickland doesn&#8217;t even remotely accept the premise of this hack&#8217;s questions. He doesn&#8217;t concede that he was wrong to speak his mind, or to think unapproved thoughts. Instead he immediately identifies the &#8220;reporter&#8221; as a propagandist and laughs in his face. And he reaffirms what he said before, because it&#8217;s what he believes is true. And then afterwards — at his second press conference in Toronto, after there had been a full media cycle about this, and Canada&#8217;s state press had labeled him a bigot — what did Sean Strickland do? Watch:
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Real Canadians love Sean Strickland. <a href="https://t.co/qRZiklCRAf">pic.twitter.com/qRZiklCRAf</a>
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You can hear the crowd loves it. At one point a guy runs up to the stage to shake his hand. So he doesn&#8217;t back down, and everyone in the audience recognizes that and appreciates it. He makes a mockery of the people who wanted him to cower and apologize — and there were a lot of them in Canada, particularly in the media. He makes it clear that hate speech isn&#8217;t real, which is bold to say in Canada, where transphobia can get you charged with a crime. There you have a UFC fighter who&#8217;s a more vocal supporter of freedom of speech than pretty much any conservative politician in America. You won&#8217;t find him talking about &#8220;white privilege&#8221; or &#8220;strong conservative women.&#8221; This is what resonates now.
If the Republican Party wants to win elections, this is the path it needs to take. If they reject the Left&#8217;s obsession with skin color and gender and homosexuality, then voters will respond. We don&#8217;t need another &#8220;First Step Act,&#8221; or any pandering to stereotypes like Julio and Jamaal. We need politicians who are capable of acting like normal people.
If a UFC fighter can do it, there&#8217;s no reason the leaders of the Republican Party can&#8217;t.

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Congress is a waste of space and time. Congress should be clawing back its own authority from the executive branch and actually doing things from time to time.
But they&#8217;re not focused on what matters. Instead, they are focused on camera spots.
Yesterday, Hunter Biden showed up on the Hill. The goal for him in showing up on the Hill was to try to demonstrate Republicans would not allow him to testify openly; they want him to testify behind closed doors. Originally, the committee said he could pick to testify behind closed doors or to testify openly, and then they said they actually wanted him to do both. They want him to testify behind closed doors in order to testify openly.
Realistically, you really want people to testify behind closed doors because otherwise you end up with grandstanding.
So, what did we get yesterday from both sides of the aisle? Grandstanding, instead of actually doing the work of legislating.
Nancy Mace did her part, ripping Hunter Biden. She <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4400443-mace-spars-lawmakers-hunter-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">began:</a>
<blockquote>My first question is who bribed Hunter Biden to be here today? That’s my first question.” Then she continued: “Second question, you are the epitome of white privilege. Coming into the Oversight Committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed. What are you afraid of? You have no balls to come up here. Mr. Chairman, I think that Hunter Biden should be arrested right here and right now and go straight to jail.</blockquote>
This is the kind of stuff that gets sent out in fundraising emails and achieves absolutely nothing.
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Not only that, but Republicans should stop accusing people of being beneficiaries of white privilege because the real privilege that Hunter Biden has is not that he is white. It&#8217;s that he&#8217;s Joe Biden&#8217;s son.
All you end up doing when you make white privilege references is opening the door to dolts like AOC to grandstand. And so she did, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xv7sIzTQ24">responding</a>:
<blockquote>I’m just going to address briefly, quickly, that moment about privilege and all of this that we&#8217;re seeing here. And it was a very beautiful speech by the gentlelady who, as she mentioned, helped lead on the majority, the now-majority, side on the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee. But I think it&#8217;s so exemplary of the point that she also oversaw the elimination of Civil Rights Subcommittee on this committee, which really kind of gives the whole game away. We show up, we give speeches, we give flowery words, but, at the end of the day, participate in the structural erosion of the rights and representation of people that are marginalized: women, people of color, people that just need to see their due process and civil liberties protected in this country. </blockquote>
How is it possible that Congress gets worse with each and every passing year?
Then Hunter Biden stormed out of the room as Marjorie Taylor Greene was <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5101297/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-calls-hunter-biden-coward" target="_blank" rel="noopener">yelling</a> at him: 
<blockquote>Apparently you&#8217;re afraid of my words. That’s too bad. And I think it&#8217;s clear and obvious for everyone watching this hearing today that Hunter Biden is terrified of strong conservative Republican women because he can&#8217;t even face my words, as I was about to speak to him. What a coward.</blockquote>
Meanwhile, on the Left side of the aisle, Jared Moskowitz was doing the same thing as he combated the Hunter Biden debacle by <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/moskowtiz-trolls-gop-with-huge-photo-of-trump-and-epstein-at-hearing/vi-AA1mLuF0#details" target="_blank" rel="noopener">holding up a photo</a> of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
This is where we are. This is our Congress.
This is all great for our Republic, by the way. This is all just wonderful, and I&#8217;m so glad that we can do all this on camera and everybody can get their minute of face time. It&#8217;s great.
I know that they like to say things on camera and that&#8217;s wonderful. But they are elected officials on the public dime. So at a certain point, maybe they could actually pass legislation or hold someone actually accountable. Maybe. 
 
And what do they do for a living? I&#8217;m just wondering, at some point, if they will do something useful?
It&#8217;s all kayfabe. All Congress is at this point is a waste of space in kayfabe.
Congress is full of clowns in the circus.
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This all demonstrates we have an irresponsible political party, a deeply irresponsible political class, and a broken congressional system. It is broken because the polarization of the parties makes it so.
No conversation actually takes place between the parties.
Instead, the goal of politicians is to eventually get out of politics and go make money elsewhere.
Something needs to be done about the political system of the legislature because it is full-scale, full-stop, a disaster area.

House Oversight Committee Considers Citing Hunter Biden For Contempt Of Congress

Our Congress Is A Car Filled With Idiot Clowns

Ben Shapiro

Hunter Biden

Marjorie Taylor Greene

Opinion

President Joe Biden&#8217;s embattled son Hunter Biden made a surprise appearance on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, leading to a raucous scene as reporters tried to shout questions at him — including one intrepid reporter, who asked &#8220;what kind of crack&#8221; he preferred.
The younger Biden crashed a House Oversight Committee hearing — while members met to discuss a contempt citation against him for defying an earlier subpoena — and as he attempted to exit the building afterward, reporters swarmed him and shouted their questions in the hopes that they&#8217;d be acknowledged.
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REPORTER TO HUNTER: “What kind of crack do you normally smoke Mr. Biden?” <a href="https://t.co/p9ogA9LHLZ">pic.twitter.com/p9ogA9LHLZ</a>
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Hunter&#8217;s attorney Abbe Lowell attempted to quiet the crowd, promising that he would answer questions if they would just calm down and allow him to make a statement on behalf of his client.
No sooner had he made that request than one reporter shouted, &#8220;What kind of crack do you normally smoke, Mr. Biden?&#8221;
Biden was also asked, according to Real Clear Investigations reporter Paul Sperry, whether he was high right then.
&#8220;As Hunter Biden suddenly fled the contempt hearing over his subpoena defiance, ending a surprise appearance he staged with Democrats, reporters and others shouted a number of questions at him in the hallway, including &#8216;Hunter, are you on crack right now?'&#8221; Sperry posted via X.
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BREAKING: As Hunter Biden suddenly fled the contempt hearing over his subpoena defiance, ending a surprise appearance he staged with Democrats, reporters and others shouted a number of questions at him in the hallway, including &quot;Hunter, are you on crack right now?&quot;
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In another video clip posted to X, a reporter could be heard asking, &#8220;What&#8217;s your favorite type of crack?&#8221; and then, &#8220;Are you on crack today?&#8221;
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The hearing itself was equally contentious, with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-makes-surprise-appearance-while-lawmakers-meet-on-holding-him-in-contempt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rep. Nancy Mace</a> (R-N.C.) asking who had &#8220;bribed&#8221; the president&#8217;s son to show up to the hearing — and then arguing with his attorney, who tried to talk over her.
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&#8220;Who bribed Hunter Biden to be here today? That&#8217;s my first question. Second question, you are the epitome of white privilege &#8230; what are you afraid of? You have no balls to come up here &#8230;&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepNancyMace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepNancyMace</a>: &quot;Who bribed Hunter Biden to be here today? That&#39;s my first question. Second question, you are the epitome of white privilege&#8230;what are you afraid of? You have no balls to come up here&#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Wd9WbMP5bJ">pic.twitter.com/Wd9WbMP5bJ</a>
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Biden then abruptly exited as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene weighed in, and she called him &#8220;a coward&#8221; as he got up and walked away.
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Hunter Biden departs hearing.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMTG</a>: &quot;I think it&#39;s clear and obvious for everyone watching this hearing today that Hunter Biden is terrified of strong conservative Republican women because he can&#39;t even face my words as I was about to speak to him. What a coward.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/MaIkmDIMbv">pic.twitter.com/MaIkmDIMbv</a>
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Reporter Goes For Broke In Hunter Biden Melee: ‘What Kind Of Crack Do You Normally Smoke, Mr. Biden?’

Reporter Goes For Broke In Hunter Biden Melee: 'What Kind Of Crack Do You Normally Smoke, Mr. Biden?'

House Oversight Committee

Whoopi Goldberg blew up at Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) during a heated debate over abortion, scolding her for pointing out that there were still states where abortions were legal through all nine months of pregnancy.
Mace fired right back during Monday&#8217;s broadcast of the ABC midday talk show, noting that even when pressed, there were a number of prominent elected Democrats — including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris — who have repeatedly refused to say they would support any limits on abortion for any reason.
The conversation began with Goldberg suggesting that placing any limits on abortion amounted to the government dictating how the American people could and could not raise their families.
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Whoopi suggests pro-life bills that protect the unborn/recognize their right to life are the gov &quot;telling&quot; people how to raise their families. She fails to address when she believes a person gets their constitutionally protected rights &#8211; making it solely about imposing religion. <a href="https://t.co/tfip8PNCl8">pic.twitter.com/tfip8PNCl8</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1708875588235153874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Shouldn&#8217;t we all be able to say — listen, because you don&#8217;t &#8230; no, no law says you have to have an abortion,&#8221; Goldberg said. &#8220;No law — there&#8217;s no law on the books that says you have to have an abortion. Isn&#8217;t that my choice, if my doctor and I feel that&#8217;s the best way for me?&#8221;
Goldberg went on to claim that abortion restrictions were an effort to force Christian beliefs on others, but Mace pushed back.
&#8220;At some point, that baby, people will agree with me, that the baby deserves the right to life,&#8221; the South Carolina Congresswoman said, arguing that if people wanted the government to fund abortions, the government had standing to regulate and limit the procedure. &#8220;You can&#8217;t have it both ways.&#8221;
Goldberg didn&#8217;t really blow up until Mace brought up the fact that, in post-Roe America, there were states that had no limits on abortions through all nine months of pregnancy.
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Whoopi falsely claims she&#39;s &quot;pro-life&quot;: &quot;I also am pro-life. I want everybody to have a safe life. I want them to be safe and do all the things that they should be able to do.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/01ETrrvrqC">pic.twitter.com/01ETrrvrqC</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1708878484624363990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
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After Mace listed several no-restriction states, Goldberg scolded her and told her to stop.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s stop that! No one — no one — no one! No doctor, no hospital, no one will take a baby at nine months for an abortion!&#8221; she shouted.
Mace replied with a list of elected Democrats — including Biden, Harris, and Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) — who had repeatedly refused to say there was any case in which they&#8217;d impose limits on abortion.
Mace went on to add that in Democrat-controlled states — such as Illinois — abortion access was being protected while alleged rapists were being released because of recent &#8220;bail reform&#8221; initiatives.
Goldberg wrapped up the argument by claiming that she was &#8220;pro-life,&#8221; saying, &#8220;I want everybody to have a safe life. I want them to be safe and do all the things that they should be able to do.&#8221;

Rep. Nancy Mace

‘Let’s Stop That!’: Whoopi Blows Up At Nancy Mace In Heated Debate On Abortion

'Let's Stop That!': Whoopi Blows Up At Nancy Mace In Heated Debate On Abortion

Abortion

Alyssa Farah Griffin

Media

The View

Whoopi Goldberg

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives">House</a> investigators plan to call &#8220;firsthand witnesses and whistleblowers&#8221; in future hearings in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/impeachment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">impeachment</a> inquiry against President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a>, a Republican congresswoman said on Sunday.
Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nancy-mace">Nancy Mace</a> (R-SC), a member of the House Oversight Committee, teased the next step in the probe during an appearance on Fox News days after her panel held the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-picks-apart-key-dem-attack-on-biden-impeachment-inquiry">first hearing last week</a> that examined the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIvCY6VvZaU">&#8220;basis&#8221;</a> for the impeachment inquiry on allegations of corruption.
&#8220;The first day of the inquiry was just to have experts in tax law [and] constitutional investigations to show a baseline of what is legal and what is illegal behavior,&#8221; Mace told &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; anchor Maria Bartiromo. &#8220;In the future, in our next hearings, we will have firsthand witnesses and whistleblowers coming through to show that direct evidence.&#8221;
They were discussing what evidence lawmakers have gathered so far. Bartiromo posited that Democrats, in criticizing the impeachment inquiry, &#8220;keep saying that there&#8217;s no direct line of money going directly to Joe Biden.&#8221;
Mace contended that congressional investigators &#8220;know&#8221; that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden">Biden&#8217;s son Hunter</a> &#8220;complained that half of his salary went to his father. And we know that he only got these deals from China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania because of his father, because of his relationship and selling that access to Joe Biden.&#8221;
But, when Bartiromo pressed Mace on whether lawmakers have been able to identify &#8220;specific policy decisions&#8221; made by Biden in exchange for payments, Mace conceded there is still work to be done.
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&#8220;I have not had the ability to research that,&#8221; Mace said. &#8220;I have been looking more at the LLCs, the bank records, all of the lies that Joe Biden has told, and what evidence we have so far in meetings, dinners, appointments, White House records, et cetera, phone messages, text messages, e-mails, et cetera, connecting the dots with Joe Biden.&#8221;
At the end of the first impeachment hearing last week, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced that he was <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4229307-comer-subpoenas-hunter-bidens-bank-records/">subpoenaing</a> the bank records of Biden&#8217;s son Hunter, brother James, and their affiliated companies.
&#8220;We have to connect the dots with the financial records, and then show what policy decisions were made,&#8221; Mace emphasized.
Bartiromo said &#8220;it feels like the evidence at this point is overwhelming&#8221; and asked Mace how much more time is needed to impeach Biden.
&#8220;Well, I&#8217;m a due process person. I want to hear from every witness, every whistleblower,&#8221; Mace replied. &#8220;I really want to hear from the bookkeeper, Maria, and what — how these records were hidden, how the money was laundered, and how Joe Biden got paid.&#8221;

Mace Previews Next Stage In Biden Impeachment Inquiry After First Hearing

Impeachment

Joe Biden

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) said that &#8220;everything&#8217;s on the table&#8221; when it comes to potentially ousting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from his speakership.
Mace made the remarks during a Sunday interview with ABC News&#8217; Jonathan Karl on &#8220;This Week&#8221; when asked about Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and others saying that they are going to try to oust McCarthy as speaker.
&#8220;Could you see yourself under any circumstances supporting a motion to vacate against McCarthy?&#8221; Karl asked.
&#8220;It hasn&#8217;t happened yet and I&#8217;m not going to comment on conjecture here,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Either he’s going to file it or he’s not. If he’s going to do it, put his money where his mouth is. I do hear that some votes might be up for grabs because people were made promises that have not been kept.&#8221;
&#8220;What about your vote, is it up for grabs?&#8221; Karl asked. &#8220;I mean could you support that effort?&#8221;
Mace responded, &#8220;We’ll see how it turns out. But I will tell you, I&#8217;m one of those members who were made certain promises. I&#8217;ve worked on women&#8217;s issues, I&#8217;ve worked on issues, you know, related to gun violence I feel are very important and, you know, it&#8217;s fallen on deaf ears. And if I give a handshake to someone, I expect them to follow through with it.&#8221;
Karl noted that Mace did not rule out supporting the motion to vacate which would result in McCarthy&#8217;s ouster.
&#8220;I might, you know what, everything&#8217;s on the table at this point for me because I want to do the right thing for the American people,&#8221; Mace said. &#8220;I want to do the right thing for women, I&#8217;m trying to show, here’s a path forward for women post Roe for birth control, for women who are rape survivors, et cetera.&#8221;
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Rep. Matt Gaetz&#39;s push to replace Kevin McCarthy as Speaker. Rep. Nancy Mace weighs in on her stance, saying, &#39;Everything&#39;s on the table at this point for me. I want to do the right thing for the American people.&#39;
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CBS News White House Correspondents’ Dinner After Party

Nancy Mace On Potentially Ousting Kevin McCarthy From Speakership: ‘Everything’s On The Table’

Kevin McCarthy

House Republicans have opened a probe into suspected Chinese cyber-espionage campaigns targeting the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/state-department" target="_blank" rel="noopener">State Department</a> and the Commerce Department after hackers gained access to federal government communications. 
The <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-mace-grothman-open-probe-into-data-breach-of-email-systems-at-u-s-federal-agencies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> is being led by House Oversight and Accountability Chair James Comer (R-KY), Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), and Rep. Glenn Growthman (R-WI). In two letters sent Wednesday, the lawmakers requested further information from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo after <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-hackers-spied-on-state-department-13a09f03" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> last month that Chinese hackers had gained access to communications from both departments. 
“According to recent reports, as part of a ‘suspected cyber-espionage campaign to access data in sensitive computer networks’ by China, the breaches reportedly occurred at over two dozen organizations, including some U.S. government agencies. The Department discovered this alleged intrusion by China on June 16, 2023, yet, you left later that evening for a trip to Beijing,” the <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/State-Dept-Email-System-Breach-Letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Blinken said. 
The lawmakers want a briefing on the compromise by August 9, saying they believed the recent discovery of the hacking indicated that China’s cyberattacks were becoming more advanced. 
“The incident even raises the possibility that Chinese hackers may be able to access high-level computer networks and remain undetected for months if not years,” the letter says. 
Lawmakers also requested a briefing from Raimondo in a nearly identical letter to the one sent to Blinken. 
News of the hacking, which federal officials first discovered in June, was first made public in July. 
 “Microsoft notified the department of a compromise to Microsoft’s Office 365 system, and the department took immediate action to respond,” a spokesman for the Commerce Department said last month. “We are monitoring our systems and will respond promptly should any further activity be detected.”
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In March, the White House put out a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/National-Cybersecurity-Strategy-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">framework</a> discussing the need for cybersecurity, warning that China, North Korea, Russia, and Iran were all working to increase their cyber capabilities.
According to the framework, China represents “the broadest, most active, and most persistent threat to both government and private sector networks and is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to do so.”
It added that China was pursuing “digital authoritarianism” to “shape the global Internet” into its image.

FBI Briefs House Oversight Leaders In Biden Probe

House Republicans Open Probe Into ‘Suspected’ Chinese Cyber Espionage Targeting Federal Agencies

Antony Blinken

China

Commerce Department

Communist China

Gina Raimondo

House Republicans

James Comer

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) cautioned in an interview over the week that Republican lawmakers need to have a strong case if they decide that they want to move forward with impeaching President Joe Biden, saying that doing so could result in Republicans losing control of the House.
Mace made the remarks on Sunday during an interview with Shannon Bream on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; when asked about whether Republicans were &#8220;overhyping&#8221; the upcoming testimony this week from Devon Archer, a former friend and business associate of Hunter Biden.
&#8220;No, I don&#8217;t think so. This was a person who was in business with Hunter Biden and Biden family members. He was the BFF of the president&#8217;s son,&#8221; Mace said. &#8220;He has a lot of information, I believe that we&#8217;ll be able to fact check and corroborate with other witnesses and other whistleblowers. And when we just had two IRS whistleblowers, admitting that their investigation has been blocked by federal agencies. And is he going to tell us that Joe Biden was in the room via conference call or in person and to what extent he was involved in this mess? And the American people have the right to know whether he was or was not.&#8221;
Mace said that the evidence from the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s investigation into the Biden family was &#8220;overwhelmingly piling up&#8221; but not all of it could be shared because of confidentiality.
&#8220;For example, the 170+ suspicious activity reports pointing to money laundering, bribery, racketeering, and corruption, etc.,&#8221; she said. &#8220;So we have to go find the bank records, we have to go find witnesses and other whistleblowers to prove it in other ways, since we can&#8217;t release that information. So it&#8217;s really important, in my estimation, no matter what side of the aisle you are on, release everything at the point that you can, release it all the American people.&#8221;
When asked about the divide among congressional Republicans on whether Biden should be impeached, Mace noted that an impeachment inquiry, which House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has floated, is different than an impeachment vote.
&#8220;I will tell you, every time we walk the plank, we are putting moderate members, members that won Biden-won districts, we are putting those seats at risk for 2024,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We are putting the majority at risk, and it&#8217;s not just impeachment that does that. Other issues like abortion, etc., also put those members on the plank.&#8221;
&#8220;But the one thing I&#8217;ll say is this, is that whatever the evidence shows us, we ought to follow the facts. And we have to be better than Nancy Pelosi,&#8221; she concluded. &#8220;Pelosi really politicized the impeachment process. We do not want to do that here. We have to show overwhelming undeniable evidence in order to move this thing forward. And if we can&#8217;t, then we should not. But if we do, then we ought to use every tool in the toolbox to make sure the American people see it for what it is and we can hold everyone accountable.&#8221;
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Nancy Mace Cautions Against Impeaching Biden Despite Evidence ‘Overwhelmingly Piling Up’: ‘Putting Moderate Members’ At Risk

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Shannon Bream

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) responded Thursday afternoon to video clips circulating on social media of her referencing her sex life at a prayer breakfast, shrugging it off as a joke.
The viral remarks came during her speech at the 13th Annual South Carolina Prayer Breakfast on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., which was hosted by Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott (R-SC).
&#8220;When I woke up this morning at 7, I was getting picked up at 7:45. Patrick, my fiancé, tried to pull me by my waist over this morning in bed. And I was like, &#8216;No, baby, we don&#8217;t got time for that this morning,'&#8221; Mace said. &#8220;I gotta get to the prayer breakfast, and I gotta be on time.&#8221;
&#8220;A little TMI,&#8221; Mace added. &#8220;He can wait, I&#8217;ll see him later tonight. But, I was here early today for you, Tim, and I think everybody was here early for you today.&#8221;
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Nancy Mace tells a prayer breakfast that she turned down sex this morning so she could get there on time <a href="https://t.co/nnWY6moonJ">pic.twitter.com/nnWY6moonJ</a>
&mdash; Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) <a href="https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1684573288352329729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Mace&#8217;s remarks created a buzz online across the spectrum of the political Right, with many expressing some shock that she said what she did at a prayer breakfast.
&#8220;She went to a prayer breakfast hosted by a Senator who amazingly hasn&#8217;t been able to find a wife and says she declined sex from someone who is not her husband,&#8221; said BlazeTV host Steve Deace. &#8220;Goodness, this party can&#8217;t even pander properly anymore.&#8221;
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She went to a prayer breakfast hosted by a Senator who amazingly hasn&#39;t been able to find a wife and says she declined sex from someone who is not her husband. Goodness, this party can&#39;t even pander properly anymore. <a href="https://t.co/rcVOL09Ow9">https://t.co/rcVOL09Ow9</a>
&mdash; Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/1684596737514598400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Way to read the room <a href="https://t.co/Ux6XumCbfg">https://t.co/Ux6XumCbfg</a>
&mdash; Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1684607505240817689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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I&#39;m a big fan of Rep. Mace but this is a WILD thing to say at a prayer breakfast! <a href="https://t.co/Rn6SC8P08E">https://t.co/Rn6SC8P08E</a>
&mdash; Angela Morabito (@AngelaLMorabito) <a href="https://twitter.com/AngelaLMorabito/status/1684595692264693760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Mace responded on Twitter to political commentator Jack Posobiec, who wrote: &#8220;Nancy Mace tells a prayer breakfast that she turned down sex this morning so she could get there on time.&#8221;
&#8220;I go to church because I’m a sinner not a saint!&#8221; Mace said. &#8220;Glad those in attendance, including @SenatorTimScott and my pastor, took this joke in stride. Pastor Greg and I will have extra to talk about on Sunday.&#8221;
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I go to church because I’m a sinner not a saint! 
Glad those in attendance, including <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorTimScott?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenatorTimScott</a> and my pastor, took this joke in stride. Pastor Greg and I will have extra to talk about on Sunday 😂 <a href="https://t.co/lQ3plPVhbf">https://t.co/lQ3plPVhbf</a>
&mdash; Rep. Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepNancyMace/status/1684621861844340736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Nancy Mace Responds After Her Racy Remarks At Prayer Breakfast Cause Stir Online

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Tim Scott

According to Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC), President Joe Biden wants to give former President Donald Trump a “death sentence” over the accusations that he mishandled classified documents. 
During an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6329228412112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appearance</a> on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo, Mace criticized the “two-tiered system of justice” where she argues other politicians, including Biden, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and former Vice President Mike Pence, are held to different standards than Trump.
“Every time the Oversight Committee has evidence of corruption, bribery, money laundering on the Biden family, they indict Donald Trump,” Mace said. “Joe Biden wants to give Donald Trump a death sentence for documents. He&#8217;s facing hundreds of years for mishandling documents, and they want him to die in jail.” 
“Most of America sees this for what it is: It’s weaponizing the executive branch to take out your political enemies.” 
Mace then referenced Clinton, who she said is “bragging” about the “two-tiered system of justice” and even raising money from it after promoting a “But Her Emails” hat on Twitter. Mace also criticized Biden and Pence for their handling of classified documents. 
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Bringing this back in light of recent news:
Get a limited-edition But Her Emails hat and support <a href="https://twitter.com/OnwardTogether?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@onwardtogether</a> groups working to strengthen our democracy.<a href="https://t.co/4TiUxjmRNY">https://t.co/4TiUxjmRNY</a> <a href="https://t.co/uSofeNjBxy">pic.twitter.com/uSofeNjBxy</a>
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Mace said the same day the Oversight Committee accessed suspicious activity reports on alleged Biden family corruption, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicted Trump. Likewise, she said the same day the committee got access to a 1023 form allegedly showing bribery between the president and his son in Ukraine, Trump was indicted a second time. 
“We next need to subpoena more bank records,” Mace said when asked what the Oversight Committee would do about the investigation into President Biden and his family. “I want to go back to Treasury … I want to re-review the suspicious activity reports, and start to connect those dots because what we do know, the layering, the scheme of shell companies — and it said this in the 1023 document we reviewed on Thursday — they made it complicated. They bragged how it would take the U.S. government ten years to follow the money.” 
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Mace pledged to “get to the bottom” of the investigation — even if it meant referring charges to the Department of Justice. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), another guest on the show, told Bartiromo that she no longer has faith in the DOJ or the FBI based on “how they’re conducting” the investigations. 
“We had to literally threaten the head of the FBI with contempt of Congress and even then they gave us a document that was still mostly redacted,” Luna said. “They are accountable to the American people, they are accountable to Congress. … If we don’t do anything, it’s lost. This country is lost.”

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