BREAKING: Rep. Nancy Mace fends off a Trump pick in South Carolina’s GOP primary, while Rep. Tom Rice, who voted to impeach the former president, goes down
In Tuesday’s primary election, Palmetto State Republican voters decided to keep one and give another the boot.
For Trump, Rice’s defeat is a badly needed boost to his decidedly spotty 2022 campaign to replace Republicans who have crossed him with handpicked loyalists. Just two weeks ago across the border in Georgia, Trump-backed candidateFry’s outright victory is an especially sweet one for Team Trump. Rice is the first of the 10 House Republicans who voted for Trump’s second impeachment to be defeated in a primary.
But Mace was once vocal in her criticism of Trump’s actions on the 6th and has, at times, pushed back on his singularly immense influence over the direction of the party. Later, she did vote to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress for not cooperating with that investigation.