The representative of South Carolina, Nancy Mace, announces an offer for the governor in 2026

EXCLUSIVE – Representative Nancy Mace, the Southern Carolina Republican with a large national profile, said his candidacy for the Governor of the State of Palmetto on Monday.

“I run to put the South Carolina first,” said Mace, a member of the chamber with three mandates who represents a coastal district of the Congress in the state lowcountry, in a press release shared first with Fox News Digital.

Mace, while she was launching her campaign, argued that “we can continue to do the things we have always done”, when she was targeting what she called “weak leadership” in the state.

“Or we can trace a new course-good sense and daring policies to organize the line for South Carolina,” she said.

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And Mace went on a new launch campaign website With a 10 -point program that she called “a clear, conservative and common sense roadmap to rebuild the South Carolina from zero:”

Mace follows his announcement with a campaign policy event Monday morning in Charleston at the Citadel, which is the public military college of South Carolina and its Alma Mater.

Mace is entering a primary field of the GOP crowded in the 2026 race to succeed the Republican Governor in the long term Henry McMaster, who is the Palmierto State The oldest governor.

The South Carolina Attorney General, Alan Wilson, Lieutenant-Governor Pamela Evette and the senator from the Josh Kibrell State all seek the appointment of the GOP in the reliable red state. They were joined a week ago by the republican representative Ralph Norman, who declared his candidacy.

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Mace, in a recent interview with Fox News Digital before its launch, said that “we start in front, in mind, and it is a race of two men” between Elle and Wilson.

And she promised that “I will fight until the arrival, and I will take out the Attorney General from Southern Carolina, because he closed my eyes to women and children and the state for many reasons. He could force me to do so.”

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson saw the floor at South Carolina State House on Thursday, August 15, 2024, put a republican campaign for the governor in 2026. (Tracy Glantz / The State / Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Mace, in a bomb speech on the floor of the American house in February, alleged that Wilson had ignored evidence of sexual assault against her and other women. In her one-hour speech, Mace accused four men, including her ex-fiancé, of sexual crimes and said that she was one of the victims.

Wilson vehemently denied the accusations of Mace, saying at the time “that allegation has never been done to me – no one in my office”.

Wilson, in a statement to Fox News a week ago, argued that “Nancy Mace is a men’s person who will do everything to attract attention to distract from his liberal voting file. I served our country and dedicated my civilian career to the protection of children.”

“His attacks are, once again, categorically false and are only a distraction of his liberal agenda,” he added. “The families of South Carolina need a governor who will fight for our values, not someone who will compromise them for a political gain and clicks on social networks.”

And Wilson’s campaign stressed that each sheriff of the Mace Congress district approved his campaign for the governor.

Republican governor Henry McMaster, the oldest governor in South Carolina, is limited to term and cannot request his re -election in 2026. (Joshua Boucher / The State / Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Mace, who abandoned the school at the age of 17, and worked in a waffle house before finally becoming the first graduate of the Cadets of the Citadel, won the congress election in 2020. She defeated Democratic representative Joe Cunningham, to become the first republican woman of the state elected to the Chamber.

Mace, who worked on the 2016 presidential campaign of President Donald Trump, strongly criticized his actions surrounding the attack on January 6, 2021 against the American Capitol, when Trump’s supporters tried to upset the certification of the victory congress of President Joe Biden in the 2020 elections.

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Trump supported a primary challenger against Mace when she was re-elected in 2022, but she managed to win re-abounding and re-election.

Later, Mace came to the defense of Trump after the president of the time was charged for managing the documents. And she approved Trump in the republican presidential primaries of 2024, when he exceeded a large field of rivals, including the former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley.

Trump’s grip on the GOP, thanks to his victory in 2024 to win back the White House, is stronger than ever, and his mentions in the nomination races of the GOP are extremely influential.

When asked if she could win the president’s approval, Mace told Fox News Digital: “I will work very hard if I arrive to win her support.”

And in her campaign launch video, Mace uses a Trump clip calling her “fighter” in a speech, and adding that “when she gets her sight of something, she is difficult”.

Mace has looked hard at cultural problems in recent years, in particular by directing the accusation to prevent the Democratic representative Sarah McBride from Delaware, the first openly transgender member of the Congress, to use the toilets of women in the House.

Republican representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina, seen in the American Capitol on Thursday, April 10, 2025, announced on Monday his candidacy for the Governor in the 2026 race to succeed in the governor of the GOP limited term Henry McMaster. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

And Mace, in its launch of the campaign, promised to defend what she called “biological reality and to stop the radical gender program”.

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“No child was born in the wrong body. No boy belongs to a cloakroom for girls. And no teenager should lose her purse for a boy in a skirt,” she said. “I have already started to close this awakened ideology in the schools of South Carolina, and I will do much more to prohibit this abusive ideology and ship it outside the state.”