President, I can’t thank you enough,” Mace responded. Mace has also been working overtime in the hopes of rehabilitating herself with the right (and far right) wings of her party – posting bikini bod pictures to social media, carrying a loaded firearm on her hip to party meetings and taking a high-profile junket to the U.S.-Mexican border.
“Haley bet on Republican voters abandoning Trump – but instead they abandoned her,” I noted in post last month which took note of Haley’s latest hypocrisy. Haley has been contorting herself ever since in the hopes of getting back in Trump’s good graces (and the good graces of his followers) … to no avail. And we can’t let that ever happen again.” He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. “I don’t think he’s going to be in the picture. “I think he’s lost any sort of political viability he was going to have,” Haley said at the time. Mace ( above) also claimed Trump’s actions on the day of the riots “put all of our lives at risk,” referring to herself and other members of congress.Īs I have often noted, Mace made the same political miscalculation (when it comes to GOP primary voters, anyway) as former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley – who made similar comments in the aftermath of the capitol riots. “Everything that he’s worked for … all of that – his entire legacy – was wiped out yesterday,” Mace said the day after the bloody assault on the capitol. However, she did rip him in no uncertain terms for allegedly fomenting the violence. “He wants her gone more than Tom Rice,” one Trump confidant told me recently, referring to Mace. That would also make sense considering Rice is, by virtue of his impeachment vote, the most vulnerable incumbent congressman in the Palmetto State – and perhaps one of the most vulnerable incumbent members of congress in the country.Īccording to multiple source familiar with the 2022 midterm plans of the 45th president, his top target for defeat in the upcoming election cycle in South Carolina is incumbent first district congresswoman Nancy Mace. Given all this acrimony, you would expect Trump to have zeroed in on Rice as his top target for defeat in the 2022 election cycle in South Carolina. “Sometimes I wonder if this is how Hitler came to power.” “The Trump cult runs strong,” Wrenzie Rice wrote in an email to one of her husband ’s supporters that was leaked to the press two months ago. Rice’s wife, commercial real estate agent Wrenzie Rice, didn’t help her husband’s cause when she described backers of the former president as part of a “cult.” It also drew a formal rebu ke from his own party.
Rice’s vote had seismic reverberations in his district – prompting a groundswell of conservative grassroots opposition to his reelection bid as well as a flood of challengers for his seat. “This is one no one saw coming,” noted Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor for NPR. Cheney, a staunch “ neoconservative,” was a #NeverTrump Republican from day one, though. Take Liz Cheney of Wyoming, for example, who lost her leadership post in the U.S. Obviously, several of the GOP lawmakers who joined with Democrats to impeach Trump were … expected defections. Seventh district voters backed Trump with 58 percent of the vote in 2016 and supported him with 58.8 percent of the vote again last fall. Also, the seat Rice currently holds – representing South Carolina’s seventh congressional district – is staunchly Republican. That vote – which Rice has steadfastly defended, incidentally – was a definitional shocker.įor starters, Rice was a longtime Trump supporter – voting with the former president more than ninety percent of the time during the latter’s tenure in office. congressman Tom Rice shocked the nation when he joined nine other Republican lawmakers in voting to impeach then-president Donald Trump over the latter’s alleged “incitement” of a mob that stormed the U.S.
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