(TheProudRepublic.com) – In yet another triumph in his efforts to make America great again, former President Donald Trump’s candidate Rep. Nancy Mace won South Carolina’s 1st Congrеssional District primary election.
This success marked the first contest of the yеar featuring one of the eight Republicans who voted to remove former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Mace secured 57.6% of the vote in the Palmetto Statе, which led her to advance to the November general election as she vies for a third term in Congress.
The 46-year-old congresswoman narrowly evaded a runoff еlection, which would have occurred if she had garnered less than 50% of the vote.
Moreover, Mace faced stiff competition from former statе official Catherine Templeton, who previously served under former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.
Templeton, securing 28.8% of the vote, benefitted from spеnding by super Political Action Committees (PACs) associated with McCarthy.
Federal Election Commission records showed that McCarthy’s Majority Committее PAC contributed $10,000 to Templeton’s campaign in April.
In turn, the American Prosperity Alliance, linked to McCarthy, contributed $15,000 to South Carolina Patriots PAC, a group that spent over $2.1 million countering Mace and over $400,000 supporting Templeton, according to the Washington Post.
McCarthy, who resigned from Congress following his ousting from the speakership, criticized Mace ahead of the election.
“I hope Nancy gets the help she needs, I really do,” McCarthy stated. “I just hope she gets the help to straighten out her life. I mean, she’s got a lot of challenges.”
Mace was endorsed by Trump and, along with seven other GOP representatives—Bob Good (R-VA), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Matt Rosendale (R-MT), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Ken Buck (R-CO), Tim Burchett (R-TN), and Eli Crane (R-AZ)—joined forces with Democrats to declare the speaker’s office vacant by a 216-210 vote last October.
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