Nancy Mace at the 2024 Republican National Convention. Photo:

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• Republican Rep. Nancy Mace filmed herself arguing with a constituent after he approached her in a store and asked when she would next be holding a town meeting
• Their interaction escalated, and Mace told the man: “You people on the left are crazy, you’re absolutely f—— crazy”
• Mace later shared a video of the encounter to social media and wrote that an “unhinged lunatic, a man, wearing daisy dukes, at a makeup store got in my face today”

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina filmed herself yelling at and using expletives towards one of her own constituents after he approached her in a beauty store.

In a video posted to her own social media account, Mace, 47, could be heard arguing with a constituent — a man later identified by local news outlet the Post and Courier as Ely Murray-Quick — inside an Ulta Beauty store in Mount Pleasant, S.C. after he asked her if she would be hosting an in-person town hall in her congressional district.

In her video and another clip seemingly taken by her constituent, both filmed on Saturday, April 19, the representative could be heard asking Murray-Quick, a realtor: “Do you want to keep going? You want to keep harassing me? You could have gone to a dozen town halls last year.”

“I asked if you were doing any this year. It was one simple question,” Murray-Quick said, to which Mace replied, “I’ve done one this year, I’ll do plenty more.”

Warning, the video below includes profanity.

After further discussion about town hall meetings, Mace then told the man: “By the way, I voted for gay marriage twice.”

“What does that have to do with me?” he asked. “You think everything about me has to do with gay marriage?”

“I do, absolutely,” Mace replied. “If you want to get in my face about town halls, you should have shown up to one last year.”

Mace questioned why he hadn’t been at town hall meeting in the past before breaking out into profanity.

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“Where were you before that or the year before that? Oh, because you know what? Because you people on the left are crazy. You’re absolutely f—— crazy,” Mace added, the clip shows. “And get out of my face.”

Video from both angles showed Mace and the man standing several feet apart from each other.

The man then laughed and said, “You’re insane,” to which Mace replied, “F— you.”

“You’re going to be voted out so fast this year,” he added, to which Mace said: “I’m not. I’m not. I won by so much.”‘

“You’re a disgrace to this state,” Murray-Quick said as he walked away. “I asked you a simple question and you just go on this tirade and tell me f— you? You’re disgusting. F— you. You’re a nasty bitch.”

“You couldn’t take me on baby,” she called after him. “Stay the f— away from me.”

Mace on April 10, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty

When she shared the video on social media later on, Mace wrote that an “unhinged lunatic, a man, wearing daisy dukes, at a makeup store got in my face today.”

“Dems are nuts. So I went off – and I won’t be backing down,” she continued on social media. “I hold the line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Try me.”

Murray-Quick shared a statement with the Post and Courier in response to the incident as well, telling the outlet in part: “This is about a simple question asked in public, with video evidence that shows Nancy responding before spiraling into a public meltdown.”

“She wasn’t interrupted, insulted, or blocked from exiting Ulta,” he wrote.

A spokesperson for the Mount Pleasant police also told the local outlet that the incident had not been reported to law enforcement either by Mace, Murray-Quick or anyone that was in the store at the time.