Nancy Mace is so “concerned” with protecting women she voted against Violence Against Women Act and supports sexual predator Trump
Mace only cares about her own career
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace wants you to believe that the real reason she is so vocal about banning the first transgender member of Congress, Rep-elect Sarah McBride (D-Del), from using the women’s room on Capitol Hill is because she is so damn worried about women’s safety. No, this isn’t about Mace scoring political points by demonizing a member of a vulnerable community—as Trump’s campaign did with anti-transgender ads this election—it’s about protecting “women and girls.”
To prove that, Mace appeared on every media outlet that would have her, increasingly ratcheting up her rhetoric to make that point. On Tuesday, she told all who would listen, “I am not going to stand for a man, you know someone with a penis in the women's locker room – that's not okay.” Later she added, "I’m absolutely 100% gonna stand in the way of any man who wants to be in a women’s restroom, in our locker rooms, in our changing rooms,” adding, “I will be there fighting you every step of the way."
Come Wednesday, she was back on her media tour saying that the idea of McBride using the women’s room, “is an assault on women.” She later repeated that point claiming that “a man being a biological man, a man with a penis, male genitalia– being in a women’s locker room is an assault on women.” She added, “I’m gonna do everything I can to protect women and girls.”
Mace—clearly loving the media attention--later Wednesday doubled down declaring, “Oh you thought threatening me would silence me? No. I just doubled down and filed a new bill to protect women and girls across the entire country on all federal property everywhere.”
But here is the problem with Mace telling us she is so deeply concerned with the safety of women. This same Mace voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women’s Act, has repeatedly praised sexual predator Trump and has been silent in face of Trump nominating Matt Gaetz and Pete Hegseth to his cabinet despite reporting both committed rape.
For starters, in 2021 Mace voted against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA.) This seminal law—first enacted in 1994—was designed to combat the epidemic of violence against women which still sees three women killed every day in the U.S. by a current or former husband or boyfriend. Overall, each year in the U.S., there are nearly 5.3 million incidents of domestic violence directed against women aged 18 and older.
The reauthorization of the VAWA was designed to provide additional resources to further improve prevention to all forms of violence against women including sexual violence, increase funding to help prosecute those who attack women and provide support to survivors. But Mace chose not to join the nearly 30 other House Republicans who supported this law to protect women and girls--instead opposing it to score political points with the GOP base.
Then there is Mace’s support for Donald Trump. Mace—who praised Trump during her speech at the Republican National Convention this summer—knows that Trump was found liable in 2023 by a federal jury of sexually assaulting writer E. Jean Carroll. And Trump did so in a “dressing room” of a store—one of the very places Mace cited as being concerned about women and girls being safe in from transgender women. Trump also bragged about walking through the dressing rooms of the Miss America pageant he owned to see the young female contestants change.
In addition, Trump has been accused by nearly 20 women of sexual assault and harassment and we all heard in the infamous Access Hollywood tape Trump brag about kissing women and grabbing them by the genitals without their consent. But there was Mace just a few weeks before election day this year praising Trump saying, “I know that I have his ear. I know that I have his voice. He gets it. And that's important to me as a woman."
Then there are Trump’s nominees for his cabinet of Matt Gaetz for Attorney General and Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense. Both have been accused of grave sexual misconduct. In Gaetz’s case, witnesses testified under oath that they saw him have sex with a minor—which is statutory rape—and that he paid other women for sex.
Hegseth—as we learned Saturday from reporting by The Washington Post—was accused in 2017 of raping a woman at a Republican event he was speaking at. The women—who was married with small children at the time—was assigned to ensure Hegseth made it to his events on time. The police report noted that when the woman escorted Hegseth back to his room, she repeatedly told him “no” but he took her phone and blocked the door with his body when she tried to leave. That is when he raped her.
The women went the next day to the emergency room, where “she received a rape-kit examination that was positive for semen.” She also “filed a complaint with the police alleging she was sexually assaulted days after the Oct. 7, 2017, encounter in Monterey, California.” But the local district attorney did not bring charges. We also learned on Saturday for the first time that Hegseth paid the woman hush money in 2020 when the “Me Too” movement was in full swing in exchange for her signing a non-disclosure agreement.
You would think that Mace being greatly concerned with women would be outspoken on Gaetz and Hegseth. But while she has posted on social media countless times in the past two days about the threat McBride and other transgender women pose, there is not one single post about Gaetz or Hegseth.
Violence against women and girls is a real issue. When though it comes to violence by transgender women in a bathroom against cisgender women, studies have found no increase in safety concerns. However, transgender women—and especially those of color—are suffering an “epidemic” of violence directed against them as a new report details.
What Mace is engaging in is typical GOP hypocrisy. Her concerns for women and girls only extends to when it helps her politically. But when it helps her to be silent or worse praise a sexual predator like Trump, she will despicably do that as well to bolster her career.
The only thing more hypocritical than MAGA is the mainstream media treating them seriously instead of calling them out for their bs
Mace is a bloody hypocrite, as is the rest of MAGA. And every single woman who voted for him.