Nancy Mace Throws Fit Over ‘Evil’ People Wanting A Town Hall — And Her Reason Is Mind-Boggling

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) apparently thinks people who have been calling her district office to criticize President Donald Trump and his policies are … evil.

On Monday, the congresswoman shared two videos on X, formerly Twitter, to air out her grievances with these callers, calling them “evil,” “ugly” and “hateful.” She claimed that her office had returned calls to hundreds of people who’ve requested that she host a town hall — people she referred to as “fake town hallers.” Mace was evidently offended that so many of the callers took the opportunity to condemn Trump and his billionaire adviser Elon Musk.

“Their only complaint is they hate Donald Trump and they want to see Elon Musk dead,” she scoffed in one video. “Those are the types of people that want this town hall. They don’t have any needs with our office or any federal agency, they don’t need any help from a constituency standpoint.”

“They’re just full of it. They hate Donald Trump. They hate Elon Musk. Too bad,” she continued. “Because I love some Donald Trump. And I love some Elon Musk. All the way — MAGA baby.”

In another video, Mace said that the callers sharing their concerns about Trump were taking away time from “real constituents” who need assistance with federal agencies, like, getting appointments with a Veteran Affairs department.

But constituents from the 1st Congressional District Mace represents have expressed concerns about those very issues at a town hall event she turned down last month.

During the town hall, which was held on March 28 in the Mount Pleasant town in South Carolina’s Lowcountry region, attendees expressed concerns about possible cuts to Medicaid, the Department of Veteran Affairs and the Department of Education, local Charleston NBC affiliate WCBD News 2 reported.

“We’ve elected Nancy Mace to represent the Lowcountry — where is she?” one town hall attendee said about Mace’s absence during an interview with local ABC News 4.

Mount Pleasant council member G.M. Whitley, in coordination with a local group called the Lowcountry Accountability Alliance, LLC, had extended an invitation to Mace to attend the March 28 in-person town hall to “discuss key issues” that matter to her constituents, a letter read.

Mace released a statement days later calling the event “fake news,” charging that the group had misled people into thinking she was attending the town hall — or that she organized it. A flyer promoting the event indicated that it was hosted “in partnership” with the Lowcountry Accountability Alliance, and that Mace was an “invited guest.”

The congresswoman had also claimed that she, her family and her employees had received threats ahead of the town hall, and therefore she did not plan to attend since it would have put “lives at risk.” She said in her statement that her office plans to host town halls, but did not list any upcoming dates in the announcement.

Whitley told ABC News 4 that she hadn’t heard about threats made to Mace, but that the congresswoman should report any threats she’s received to law enforcement. Police officers were present inside the town hall event, which had metal detectors people had to walk through to enter, according to WCBD News 2.

GOP lawmakers have been facing furious constituents in congressional districts across the country. But meeting with constituents at town halls — whether they’re frustrated or not — is part of the job, Andrew Perrin, Professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, explained to HuffPost.

“Bottom line, the primary responsibility of a representative is to represent,” he said. “Town halls are one of the best ways for representatives to learn what their constituents believe and care about so they can do a better job representing them in Congress.”

Jace Woodrum, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina, told HuffPost that Mace “appears to be scared of her own voters.”

“She was elected to do a job, and that job is to represent the people of South Carolina. But she refuses to listen to them when they want to talk to her about rising costs, health care, education, and beyond,” he said. “It seems she’d rather stay in D.C. than hear the concerns and priorities of Lowcountry South Carolinians.”

“The unfortunate reality is that lawmakers like Congresswoman Mace think they can shun many of their own constituents because the state has drawn Congressional districts to be ‘safe’ along partisan lines,” he continued. “This is one of the many ways that gerrymandering distorts our representative democracy.”

Perrin said “of course” some town hall events can get contentious — that’s “part of the point.”

“They are one way people who don’t feel they’re being properly represented can get their voices heard,” he said, adding that it was “odd” Mace was focused on constituent services in her videos complaining about those wanting town halls. Town halls provide voters something different than constituent services.

“There’s no need for a town hall for those sorts of things; every Congressional office helps constituents with those services one-on-one,” he said. “The point of a town hall is democratic representation, not constituent services.”

Perrin also said that he’s not aware of any evidence that town hall attendees are paid outsiders, as Republican leaders have claimed. He said that those types of claims, as well as Mace calling some of her constituents “evil,” serve to “undermine a core value of democracy: the right to disagree.”

“They’re also a symptom of the bubble so many people live in; they assume anyone who disagrees must be bad or corrupt because they can’t fathom that honest Americans disagree on big issues and all those voices deserve to be represented in Washington,” he said.

Woodrum said it’s “outrageous and insulting that Congresswoman Mace is calling her own voters names.”

“As the legislative branch of our government, Congress plays a vital role as a check and balance to the executive and judicial branches,” he said. “Congresswoman Mace is abdicating her duty in refusing to hear what South Carolinians think about the president’s policies and priorities. She’s more concerned with holding the Republican Party line than with representing her voters.”

“Voters are angry about the policies of President Trump, and they’re angry that their representatives in Congress are standing by while an unelected billionaire guts the programs they rely on,” he later said, referencing Musk’s influence in the Trump administration.

He added: “In this country, voters entrust our lawmakers with the power to represent us. Representatives who are refusing to listen to their voters are undermining the very nature of our representative democracy.”