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South Carolina congresswoman Nancy Mace – a prospective candidate for governor of the Palmetto State in 2026 – opened up online this week about alleged domestic abuse she endured during a recent relationship.
According to a video posted online this week, Mace has been “moving into and getting settled into” a new residence – which she claimed was her “fourth move” over the past year as she has sought to escape harassment from an alleged abuser.
“It’s a place where my abuser doesn’t know the address,” Mace said. “He can’t try to break into or gain entry into this property three times like he previously tried to do earlier this year.”
“I’m going to try to make sure he can’t find me and can’t tell others where I live and share that information,” Mace continued in the clip. “Because that puts my safety – me and my children’s safety – at risk. That’s something else he did earlier this year – telling people where I was staying, putting my life in harm’s way, (putting) my family’s life in danger. I’m going to try to make sure he can’t do that.”
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Mace’s video message did not identify the alleged abuser, but sources familiar with the situation say the comments refer to her former fiancée, Charleston, S.C. entrepreneur Patrick Bryant. Mace and Bryant were engaged in May of 2022 but she reportedly terminated the relationship last year after catching him on a dating app.
This media outlet was provided with screen caps earlier this year which would indicate Bryant was, in fact, on a dating app during his engagement to Mace.
Sources close to Bryant claimed the account was “inactive,” however.
Mace’s influence in Palmetto politics – and in Washington D.C. – is on the rise. In addition to scoring another decisive reelection victory in November, Mace took out a liberal sheriff in Charleston County, S.C. who was refusing to cooperate with federal immigration officials when it came to deporting criminal immigrants.
Since the election, Mace has forced congressional Democrats to double down on their unpopular support for woke transgender ideology – introducing legislation which would bar biological males from using “women’s spaces, women’s bathrooms, locker rooms” and “changing rooms” at the U.S. Capitol.
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“If someone with a penis is in the women’s locker room, that’s not okay,” Mace told reporters recently. “I’m a rape survivor… I know how vulnerable women and girls are.”
Mace’s advocacy on the bathroom bill prompted U.S. speaker Mike Johnson to adopt her legislation as a rule. It also catapulted her to the forefront of the post-election conversation – boosting her following on social media and scoring significant points for her among social conservative GOP primary voters in the Palmetto State.
South Carolina politicos will recall Mace – then a member of the S.C. House – discussed her rape during a 2019 debate over proposed exemptions to an abortion ban. According to Mace, the sexual assault took place when she was only sixteen years old.
“A rape is trauma and it’s not just something you can just shake off and forget, it’s something you remember for a lifetime,” Mace said. “I remember when, I remember where. I remember there were no sheets on the mattress. And I remember saying, ‘no,’ again and again.”
More recently, Mace told her supporters on election night that she had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Sources have since confirmed that diagnosis was reportedly tied to the alleged abuse she sustained.
Count on FITSNews to keep our audience in the loop regarding any new developments related to this story – including any new disclosures from Mace regarding the abuse allegations.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR …
Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and eight children.
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12 comments
Is she making this up? Wouldn’t be a surprise. She’ll do anything for a little attention.
Nancy Mace–always an Attention Whore.
You just can’t stand her take no prisoners, kick ass, unflinching confidence which is remarkable really. She’s like Trump to me – I believe her – prove me wrong and bring evidence.
She is like Trump? Do you mean they are both liars or neither has any morals? How could a victim of domestic abuse and rape, possibly support a man who has been accused by 20+ women of molesting them; who has been found by a jury to have sexually attacked one woman, who is a serial adulterer having repeatedly cheated on all three of his wives, who has bragged about molesting women on tape, and bragged about being a peeping tom backstage at the Miss America Pageant.
Everything about her seems fake. Oh and yes, I believe those women who claim Trump molested them. It fits his character. Prove me wrong and bring evidence.
DRAMA QUEEN! She still demand of her staff a certain amount of “tv time” each week ?
Same “fiance” she joked about rolling out of bed with at 2023 prayer breakfast. Stay classy Nancy Mace.
From Thehill.com 07/27/23 :
” “When I woke up this morning at 7 — I was getting picked up at 7:45 — Patrick, my fiancé, tried to pull me by my waist over this morning in bed,” Mace recounted Wednesday with a smile at the breakfast hosted by GOP presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) in the Palmetto State.
“And I was like, ‘No, baby, we don’t got time for that this morning,’” Mace said she told her future spouse, Patrick Bryant. The pair got engaged last year.
“I gotta get to the prayer breakfast,” Mace told the crowd. “And I gotta be on time,” the 45-year-old lawmaker said, before adding, “A little TMI.”
“He can wait. I’ll see him later tonight.” “
That’s the first thing I thought of. She’s pretty low class.
Are you kidding me? Nancy Mace was not only embarrassing herself but also her party , let alone using poor grammar! I’d ask how she got this far in politics, but I can guess the answer!
You answered my question. I thought this was the same one she was with saying they were in a long term committed relationship. They even bought a house together. Fine example to young people…..lmao.
She had to stay in the news after the bathroom story started to fade.
“I know how vulnerable women and girls are.” I am SO tired of women being constantly painted as weak victims-in-waiting by other women, especially. We also wouldn’t be vulnerable if not for the folks in power constantly trying to force us to remain weak and dependent. UGH.
I can’t believe anyone takes her seriously when she can’t be consistent on anything. For example, she blasted sheriff Kristin Graziano. For not having a 287g agreement with ICE, but none of the other counties in her district do either. You’ll notice that she dropped her concern over that as soon as the election was over. She’s a pandering, opportunistic attention-seeker.