Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) defended her choice on Wednesday to solicit donations following a vote to oust former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Mace was one of eight Republicans who voted with House Democrats to pass Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) motion to vacate, which removed McCarthy from the speakership. In January, during the 15 ballots it took for McCarthy to secure the gavel, the South Carolina congresswoman voted for him each round.
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“The establishment is coming after me,” Mace told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. “I’ve had a lot of threats about my fundraising. I’m asking people to go to my website at nancymace.org to help me — to show their support because there are folks that are coming after me tonight.”
When confronted with her remarks about Gaetz in January, when she called him a “fraud” for delaying McCarthy’s speaker election and fundraising off of the matter, Mace claimed, “I have not been fundraising off of this every step of the way. I made my decision last night.”
“I made the decision to fundraise over the last 24 hours because of the threats that I have received over fundraising and money drying up, which is why I need help. The people — the establishment is coming after me.”
Mace: I’m asking people to go to my website…
Collins: I’m glad you brought that up. In January when there were the marathon votes to get McCarthy this job.. This is something that you said. pic.twitter.com/KRTUhmeJg3
— Acyn (@Acyn) October 5, 2023
Following her vote to remove McCarthy, Mace tweeted that she did so because of a lack of trust. She specifically pointed to the lack of individual appropriations bills and opting for a continuing resolution, as well as the absence of action on “women’s issues and legislation to keep our communities safe.” Mace has told her colleagues to make progress on matters such as access to birth control and OB-GYN doctors for women and prevalent gun violence in schools.
“With the current Speaker, this chaos will continue. We need a fresh start so we can get back to the people’s business free of these distractions,” she wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
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Mace told Collins that since the surprise vote, “I’ve gotten a lot of threats from different groups and different members that they will withhold fundraising no matter what. And I do need help from the people, and that was a decision that I made late last night because of everything that was going on. And it is a genuine ask.”
“I’m taking it from all sides right now,” she further claimed.
