Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Throwback clip from 2016 of Nancy Mace spitting and passing alcohol in her friends and family mouth after wearing Scarlet A letter t-shirt.
South Carolina’s Rep. Nancy Mace, one of the eight Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy, walked into the forum with a red “A” on her white t-shirt in resemblance of a scarlet A.
“I’m wearing the scarlet letter after the week I just had last week being a woman up here and being demonized for my vote and for my voice,” Mace said Tuesday.
“I’m on the side of the people. I’m not on the side of the establishment and I’m going to do the right thing every single time, no matter the consequences.”
The shirt appears to be an allusion to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel, “The Scarlet Letter,” in which Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet A after giving birth despite not being married.
Nancy Mace, a Republican member of Congress who was a key vote in ousting Kevin McCarthy as House of Representatives speaker, has donned a white T-shirt with a red letter “A” on it to symbolize her being “demonized” for her decision.
“I’m wearing the scarlet letter after the week I just had, being a woman up here, and being demonized for my vote and for my voice,” Mace told reporters on Tuesday, adding: “I will do the right thing every single time, no matter the consequences.”
Both Scalise and Jordan are working furiously to shore up support. Both are easily winning over dozens of supporters, but it’s unclear if either can amass the 217 votes likely needed in a floor vote that could come as soon as Wednesday.
Both conservatives from the right flank, neither man is the heir apparent to McCarthy.
Scalise as the second-ranking Republican would be next in line for the gavel and is seen as a hero among colleagues for having survived severe injuries from a mass shooting during a congressional baseball practice in 2017. Now battling blood cancer, the Louisianan is not a clear lock.
Mace, who has been a Republican representative for a South Carolina district since 2021, has come under scrutiny for being one of a small group of Republicans who sided with Democrats to oust McCarthy, who dramatically lost his speakership last week.
Mace said she voted against McCarthy for his breaking of promises, such as on the expansion of contraceptive access for women, and has since decided to support Jim Jordan, a hard-right Ohio representative, to be speaker.
On Sunday, Mace told CBS that she was voting for Jordan due to his “values, his work ethic” but then declined to engage when asked about allegations that Jordan ignored sexual abuse that took place on the Ohio State University wrestling team when he was an assistant coach there.
“I’m not familiar or aware with that,” Mace said. “He’s not indicted on anything that I’m aware of. And so I don’t know anything and I can’t speak to that … I don’t know anything about that.”
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