Inside the world of Nancy Mace: Ex-staffers element her spiraling uncontrolled politica life | EUROtoday

A stunning profile of a South Carolina congresswoman who has waged an on-again, off-again alliance with President Donald Trump threatens to have an effect on her repute at a second when she is battling to remain among the many main candidates in a hotly contested gubernatorial major.

Rep. Nancy Mace made headlines all through 2025 as the primary yr of Donald Trump’s second presidency was the background for her personal private disaster, one which performed out publicly throughout tv screens in Washington and across the nation. In February 2025, the congresswoman accused her ex-fiancé Patrick Bryant in a speech on the ground of the House of Representatives of plenty of prison acts together with bodily assault and filming her bare with out her consent. Bryant swiftly denied the accusations.

She additionally induced a scene in October of final yr when, at Charleston’s airport, Mace (in response to a police report) berated and cursed at officers who allegedly failed to fulfill her upon her arrival. Also a candidate for governor within the state in a Republican major, the congresswoman noticed her assist dwindle as Republicans within the state when Sen. Tim Scott and others rebuked or condemned her actions.

And in a New York Magazine profile out on Monday entitled “Nancy Mace is Not Okay,” Mace’s repute may very well be additional in danger. The publication cites a number of former staffers together with a former high marketing consultant to her gubernatorial marketing campaign who described her conduct as erratic and abusive. Mace’s workplace fiercely denied the claims made within the piece, and trashed its writer in a press release to NYMag.

The image painted by the previous workers detailed a few of their considerations with Mace, who was first elected as a consultant in 2021. Supporters of the congresswoman argue that Mace as a substitute is a sufferer of ex-staffers’ axe grinding, led by a disgruntled former aide.

“We were scared of her,” one former staffer advised NYMag. “She would make staffers cry. She would threaten to fire them, take their money away, not give them raises, not to give them days off, religious days.”

Another former staffer detailed how early in her profession Mace would push for appearances on nationwide and native TV to assist her model. Her staffers thought she had potential, even when her conduct had them questioning her actions.

“Something’s broken. The motherboard’s fried. We’re short-circuiting somewhere,” a staffer advised the journal.

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According to former staffers, Mace abused alcohol and marijuana throughout her time in workplace and was described as “befuddled” on a 2022 journey to Europe by workers who say that the congresswoman demanded the firing of a staffer for releasing the identical journey particulars to reporters that Mace herself had advised a roomful of journalists a day prior.

“She would definitely do it excessively,” a staffer with Mace on the Europe journey advised NYMag about her travels. “And again, not to say that most members don’t or most staff don’t, but it got to the point where it was an issue.”

Another claimed: “Look, when I worked for her, our poor scheduler was getting calls at two o’clock in the morning to come bring her bottles of tequila.”

But a supply near Mace disputed this to The Independent on Monday, and claimed that Mace suffers from hemochromatosis, a illness which prevents her from ingesting laborious liquor.

Other staffers claimed that Mace would use them for home tasks and cleansing duties at her D.C. townhouse and different properties she was renting out as AirBnBs, in response to the journal. The congresswoman is usually described within the piece as verbally abusive, and more and more consumed by private vendettas which have consumed a part of her focus in Congress since her flooring speech final yr.

They additionally mentioned they have been involved about her repeated use of her workplace to go after Bryant, all of the whereas engaged in a separate authorized battle over the allegations. In May of 2025, she displayed a nude picture of herself at a subcommittee listening to that she claimed was taken by Bryant with out her consent.

Mace’s workplace referred to the claims within the article as “ridiculous” in a response to NYMag.

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Over the summer time of 2025, her relationship with Trump splintered. She has log had a roller-coaster relationship with the president. After the January 6 riots, she spoke out towards them, however didn’t vote to question Trump. Then, through the years, she grew to become one in every of his largest backers.

Last yr, Mace joined a number of different Republican girls as lone GOP signatures on the discharge petition to demand the discharge of the Epstein recordsdata from the Department of Justice, lead by Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie. That act severed her relationship with the White House, together with the relationships of different insurgent Republicans akin to Marjorie Taylor Greene.

It wouldn’t be the primary time Mace misplaced out on Donald Trump’s endorsement. The president endorsed towards her in 2022, when she confronted a major opponent, solely to see Mace prevail by refusing to take it personally and remaining vocally supportive of the MAGA model. By 2024, she was again within the MAGA fold and gained Trump’s endorsement for an additional time period. Now she stands accused of drifting from Trump’s facet but once more, and in a Trafalgar Group ballot of the GOP major for governor in South Carolina had slipped to 3rd place out of 4 main contenders as of mid-January. Just a couple of proportion factors separate the candidates, with a large portion of the voters undecided.

But Mace’s bid for governor is a check of her statewide attraction, and the primary time she’s run exterior of her congressional district. Donald Trump has but to endorse within the major.

In an interview with the publication, Mace claimed that she would forgo hiring senior workers sooner or later to keep away from obstacles between her and her workers.

“I’ll never have a chief of staff again. I’ll never have a campaign manager. I run a pretty flat organization because I don’t believe in gatekeepers. Those positions become such filters that you can’t even get a drip of coffee through,” she mentioned.