Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C) is playing the victim card after calling a constituent names after he asked her simple question.
Over the weekend, Mace posted a video on social media of her berating a constituent, Charleston resident Ely Murray-Quick. In the video, Mace yelled “f*ck you,” called Murray-Quick “f*cking crazy” and mocked his clothes all because he asked her when she planned to have a town hall.
Mace’s office later defended her actions in a statement and also mocked Murray-Quick’s attire.
“Never thought we’d need to say this, but if you harass a congresswoman in public while wearing Daisy Dukes, maybe you’re the problem,” her office said. “The congresswoman has every right to stand up for herself when she’s being harassed. She will never apologize for standing her ground and standing up for women everywhere.”
But, in an interview with Fox News‘ Sean Hannity on Monday, Mace framed Murray-Quick as the aggressor and claimed she was the one who felt “threatened” and “harassed” during the incident.
“This guy approached me and I will tell you I felt threatened and harassed,” Mace said. “And as someone who’s experienced trauma in her life—and a lot of women will understand what I’m talking about—when some guy gets in your face and approaches you in an aggressive manner that he did, and you feel like you are in danger, instinctively, as women who have been through trauma and survived domestic abuse, you have two options. You can fight or flee and I’m a fighter. I’ve never stood back down from a fight.”
In a CNN interview, Murray-Quick pointed out that he was not standing close to Mace and wasn’t being aggressive.
“Nancy Mace was not held in this aisle. She had a clear out of this aisle. I was at least eight feet away from her at all times,” he said. “There was no aggression. There was no harassment. Nancy Mace likes to play the victim card, but that’s not what happened here. I asked a simple question as a resident of the state of South Carolina and she couldn’t she couldn’t answer it. She couldn’t meet the demand of the people.”
