Republican Nancy Mace Coasts to Her Third Term in Congress
Originally published by Caitlin Byrd for Charleston Post and Courier
U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace is heading back to Congress for a third term after easily dispatching a Democratic challenger in a race deemed so predictable that she used a two-year-old TV ad to make her case to voters in 2024.
Mace’s win over first-time candidate Democrat Michael B. Moore extends her time in Washington and firmly cements Republican control over a seat Democrats had hoped to reclaim against long odds.
With nearly all the votes counted in the 1st Congressional District race, Mace collected some 58 percent of the vote in a seat that spans the coast from Charleston to Beaufort and includes parts of Colleton, Dorchester and Berkeley counties.
“The radical left believes strong, intelligent women can’t possibly be independent-minded conservatives, that our husbands tell us how to vote, and any woman who doesn’t agree with them must be weak or misguided,” Mace said in her victory message.
“But they don’t know what it’s like to work twice as hard for half the credit,” she added. “Those who underestimate me, don’t bother me; it just makes me work harder; it also just makes victory so much sweeter.”