When Donald Trump-loving Republican Rep. Nancy Mace — the Republican party’s Chief of the Bathroom Safety Patrol — woke on Monday morning, she ran to her phone to welcome the new day.
“Good morning to everyone except men who wear daisy dukes,“ Mace tweeted.
All day long, she mocked the voter who, when he spotted her in the wild over the weekend, asked Mace when she was going to hold a town hall.
“I’ve already done one, I’ll do plenty more,” Mace, who took a video of the encounter and posted it to Twitter/X, told the man. “You’re always invited.”
“It’s a simple question,” the man responded, repeatedly pressing her to hold an event.
“You people on the left are absolutely f—ing crazy,” Mace told the man. “Get out of my face.”
“F–k you,” she added.
At no time during the back-and-forth did Mace indicate she felt threatened.
In fact, several times on Monday, Mace — from South Carolina — tweeted mockingly about “Mr. Daisy Dukes,” and when she was warming up in the Fox News bullpen for an appearance with Sean Hannity on Monday night, she smugly predicted a takedown: “Mr. Daisy Dukes isn’t going to like this one.”
And then, when the cameras were on, Mace played the victim card:
“This guy approached me, and I will tell you I felt threatened and harassed, and as someone who’s experienced trauma in her life, and a lot of women will understand what I’m talking about, when some guy gets in your face and approaches you in an aggressive manner that he did and you feel like you are in danger, instinctively as women who have been through trauma and survived domestic abuse, you have two options. You can fight or flee and I’m a fighter,” Mace said.
“I’ve never stood back down from a fight.”
Wait, so was this “lunatic” in shorts to be ridiculed, or a walking terror to be feared?
“Being a public official doesn’t give anyone the right to harass me, invade my personal space, or make threats,” Mace tweeted.
But Mr. Daisy Dukes didn’t harass her, invade her space or make threats.
Former GOP Congressman Adam Kinzinger had an opinion on the encounter: “Every one of Nancy Mace’s constituents need to ask her in public now. This lack of respect demands a town hall.”
He added: “She is in serious need of mental health support.”
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