WATCH: Fox’s Maria Bartiromo Battles Nancy Mace in Heated Exchange After Congresswoman Calls Kevin McCarthy ‘Disgraced’
Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo pushed back against Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) for blasting Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as a “disgraced” former speaker.
During Wednesday morning interview, Bartiromo asked Mace for her reaction to the latest attempts to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) recently brought forward a motion to vacate the speaker, following the passage of the $1.2 trillion spending bill.
Greene has continued her campaign to oust Johnson especially as he moves to support military and financial aid to Ukraine. Some Democrats have said they would defend Johnson if Greene moved for a vote on her motion to vacate.
Mace reacted to Greene’s efforts, adding that she supports Johnson as speaker — while referring to McCarthy as the “disgraced former speaker.”
MACE: I don’t support the motion to vacate the chair. In fact, the motion that was filed wasn’t privilege. And so we’re actually not even going to vote on it. And so, you know, Mike Johnson was dealt a bad hand. The former speaker, disgraced former speaker-
BARTIROMO: Kevin McCarthy is not disgraced.
MACE: I consider him disgraced. Absolutely.
BARTIROMO: Why?
MACE: Because he wouldn’t tell the truth to the party, to the conference. He lied over and over again.
BARTIROML: Come on, that’s not provable that he lied. Are you going to vote to send money to Ukraine?
MACE: Kevin McCarthy recruited a puppet to run against me and my Republican primary. You go to puppet catherine.com. He recruited somebody that can’t win a general election in a purple district. Yes. He’s a disgraced former speaker. When it comes to Ukraine funding will be voting on supplemental aid it sounds like next week when we go back to DC.
BARTIROMO: Don’t you think you all should stick together? In some ways you are hanging on by a thread in the majority. When are you actually going to unite as a party and get things done?
MACE: Right, I agree, which is why Kevin McCarthy shouldn’t go after fellow Republicans that can win in general elections in purple seats. You can go to NancyMace.Org and learn more about our campaign.
Watch the clip above via Fox Business.
