Nancy Mace Melts Down at Reporter Over Simple Fact Check: ‘You’re a Raging Democrat’ 

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) lost it on a reporter who dared to fact-check her after the lawmaker held a town hall in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on Wednesday.

Mace is angling to be the Palmetto State’s next governor, though more immediately, she is seeking the endorsement of President Donald Trump, who has yet to back a candidate in the Republican primary.

During the event, Mace called herself “one of the most serious members of Congress.” About 15 minutes later, she pledged to ban “chemtrails,” and said she would remove fluoride from South Carolina’s drinking water.

Afterward, a reporter called her out for boasting about having secured infrastructure funding for South Carolina. As the journalist noted, that money was appropriated by a bill that Mace voted against:

REPORTER: I noticed that one of the accomplishments, the things we were touting, was the I-5/26 interchange.

MACE: Well, it was the exit at Long Point Road, not the interchange.

REPORTER: But that funding came from the Inflation Reduction Act, which you voted against.

MACE: Right.

REPORTER: Is that an accomplishment then? That’s something you can tout?

MACE: No, absolutely. I mean, absolutely I can tout that because I will often argue over how much money is spent, how much money is wasted. And the vast majority of the funding in that bill was completely wasted, particularly an infrastructure bill that was $1.2 trillion. We only had $110 billion dedicated to roads and bridges in that particular bill. Of that $110 billion, only $70 billion, $70 billion was for public transit, leaving only like, $40 billion for roads and bridges across every state in the country, which is outrageous…

REPORTER: I think I’m more asking if you do agree, then, if someone, you think it’s ok for politicians who don’t vote for them–

MACE: The federal government–

REPORTER: –to take credit for–

MACE: It’s literlaly our job to make sure our states get the appropriations that they need when the money is assigned.

REPORTER: But even when you vote against it? Anybody? Even when they vote against it?

MACE: I’ve voted against almost every spending bill I’ve ever had before me because of the wasteful spending…

When there’s money being appropriate by the federal government, it is literally our job to make sure that we help organizations, government entities, state and local, get those appropriations by supporting with letters of support. And that’s what my office says. That’s literally part of the job of being a member of Congress.

So, maybe you’re confused.

REPORTER: Ok.

MACE: You’re very confused. And you’re a raging Democrat, so raging leftist with that kind of questioning. And I would say as a woman, like, you might wanna think about how you view other women and how you treat other women the way that you question them, because women are gonna lead this country off the brink. And conservative women, the first female president of this country is going to be a conservative woman, not some liberal like you.

REPORTER: Ok, again, just a question about a bill, whether you voted for it or not and how much you were touting.

MACE: This is literally a job of a member of Congress.

Mace went on to advise the reporter to read the Constitution.

In an interview on ABC News last year, Mace, a rape survivor, lost it on George Stephanopoulos when the This Week host asked how Mace could square her harrowing experience with her endorsement of Trump after Trump was found liable for sexual assault.

Mace responded by claiming that Stephanopoulos was trying to shame her as a rape survivor.

Watch above via Forbes.