Nancy Mace forced to cancel event after only eight people showed up to see the ‘proud transphobe’
Nancy Mace cancelled her speech in Myrtle Beach after a low turnout. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Nancy Mace cancelled her speech in Myrtle Beach after a low turnout. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
MAGA Republican and “proud transphobe” Nancy Mace cancelled a speech appearance after just eight people showed up.
Last Thursday (21 August), the South Carolina representative and prominent anti-trans voice in government held a Moms for Liberty event at Forward Church, Myrtle Beach, in advance of the gubernatorial election for which she is running.
Despite announcing that more than 100 people would be in attendance, as per the Advocate, just eight attendees showed up by the start time, not including reporters and security, according to local outlet My Horry News.
The outlet claimed that rather than taking to the stage for the planned speech, Mace and her team “entered through a side door, walked past the stage where she had been set to speak, and went into a back room”.
A member of her press team told reporters that the speech would not take place, and Mace instead answered questions from the media before meeting individually with the attendees who were there.
It marked Mace’s second appearance in Horry County in recent moments, after she spoke at South Carolina Congressman Russell Fry’s “Freedom Fry” event. In comparison, Republican Rep. Fry sold out tickets to his event and spoke to around 600 attendees, the publication reported.
“The bellwether that Horry County brings is ‘Where are Trump voters?’ Where are they leaning?’ Trump voters are two-thirds of the state, and we’re winning Trump voters by double digits — almost 20 points,” she told reporters after her cancelled event.
Despite Mace’s cancelled event, her campaign released polling numbers showing her in the lead with 25 per cent support. That puts her ahead of Attorney General Alan Wilson and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman, although over a third of Republican voters were undecided.
She said that she got in touch with President Donald Trump to tell him about the results, who posted them to Truth Social.
It comes after Mace introduced a “Trans Mice Act” earlier this month following false Trump claims, and was even roasted online last month after a Coldplay kiss cam meme backfired.
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