Video of Congresswoman Harassing Shopper Goes Viral
A video of Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace in which she assumes a store patron’s sexuality and proceed to call the left “absolutely fucking crazy” blew up last week. Mace was approached by a shopper, identified as Ely Murray-Quick, who asked if she would be holding upcoming town halls, in which she addresses her constituency. This is an expectation of the position she’s in, as a representative for South Carolina’s 1st congressional district, but she says that right now it’s “dangerous” for her to hold them and has not held one yet this year. When she said she has held one, he said “But that wasn’t a real town hall, let’s be real,” referring to the overwhelmingly right-wing nature of the discussion she had with her voters.
Mace proceeded to shoot back and start filming the interaction from her side, later posted to her X (Twitter) account—and evidently, deleted—calling Murray-Quick an ‘unhinged lunatic.’ After she started filming, Mace raised her voice and accused Murray-Quick of harassing her. In the video, she says “I’ve done one, I’ll do plenty more. You’re always invited, and by the way, I voted for gay marriage twice.” Murray-Quick asks what that has to do with him, as he never told her he was gay, and she shouts back “It has everything to do with you,” and then shouts, “People on the left are absolutely fucking crazy.” Murray-Quick says, “I’m absolutely crazy?” to which she says yes and tells him to “get out of (her) face.” Murray-Quick understandably shoots back calling her insane and “a disgrace to the state” before walking away.
This is not the first time Mace has landed herself in hot water with the LGBTQ+ community. Last month, she shared a trans influencer’s before-and-after post that was captioned “God I love estrogen,” with her own harassing caption; “Estrogen doesn’t love you.” Further, she said, “Can we get @RobertKennedyJr on this? NO way is this healthy.” This essentially opened up the influencer, Sabre, to a barrage of harassment from Mace’s followers. She spearheaded the anti-trans bathroom bill on Capitol Hill (which was not slated to be put into effect, but was anyway by House Speaker Mike Johnson), and she’s also been tagged for inquiry after using anti-trans slurs in Congressional session—which is classless, to say the least.
In a video posted to CNN’s socials, clipped from FOX News Entertainment, Mace says that as a woman with trauma, when a man “gets in your face and approaches you in the aggressive manner that he did … You feel like you’re in danger”. Murray-Quick spoke to CNN, saying that Mace had a clear out from the aisle she was in (depicted in the video from Murray-Quick’s side) and that he was about eight feet away from her. He states that there was no aggression from his end—He did not raise his voice, get close to Mace, or threaten her in any way. Mace, however, did raise her voice and begin harassing Murray-Quick when he simply asked her when her next town hall would be, and there’s not one, but two videos of the interaction showing this; so where is the aggression coming from, exactly?
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