{"id":1373429,"date":"2022-03-12T20:55:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T01:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373429"},"modified":"2022-03-12T20:55:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T01:55:51","slug":"trump-blasts-reps-nancy-mace-liz-cheney-at-south-carolina-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-blasts-reps-nancy-mace-liz-cheney-at-south-carolina-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Blasts Reps. Nancy Mace, Liz Cheney at South Carolina Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-blasts-reps-nancy-mace-liz-cheney-at-south-carolina-rally%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1373429&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former President Donald Trump took aim at two vulnerable Republicans facing tough primary challenges during his rally in South Carolina on Saturday night: Reps. Nancy Mace (SC) and Liz Cheney (WY).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the first congressional district, you have another horrendous RINO known as crazy Nancy Mace,\u201d the former president said, prompting boos from the crowd. \u201cTwo years ago, she begged for my endorsement and then she pledged to be America First.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cInstead, the first thing Nancy Mace did when she got to Washington was start attacking Republicans and hold a fundraiser for wacky Liz Cheney,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking over the booing crowd, Trump then hit at Liz Cheney for her participation on the January 6 committee, which he denounced as a \u201cwitch hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCheney joined the phony narrative about January 6, she voted to hold Steve Bannon in contempt, which was terrible, she\u2019s totally manipulated by raging Never Trumpers and the radical left \u2013 Democrats that are poisoning our country. She\u2019s a terrible person and she has no idea what she\u2019s doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The president\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/midterm-election\/2022\/02\/09\/donald-trump-endorses-katie-arrington-congress-south-carolina\/\">endorsed<\/a>\u00a0Nancy Mace\u2019s primary challenger, Katie Arrington, in February, denouncing Nancy Mace as an \u201cabsolutely terrible candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKatie Arrington is running against an absolutely terrible candidate, Congresswoman Nancy Mace, whose remarks and attitude have been devastating for her community, and not at all representative of the Republican Party to which she has been very disloyal. Katie Arrington, on the other hand, is liked and respected and a true Republican,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>After Trump endorsed Arrington, Mace made a video of herself appearing before Trump tower in New York, touting herself as one of the president\u2019s early supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember in 2015 when President Trump announced his run, I was one of his earliest supporters. I actually worked for the campaign in 2016. I worked at seven different states across the country to help get him elected,\u201d Mace\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/593724-mace-touts-early-support-of-trump-after-he-endorses-primary-challenger?rl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI supported him again in 2020 because of policies I believed in,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking with\u00a0<em>the State<\/em>, Mace said the video was not to be seen as her \u201cgroveling\u201d for the former president\u2019s approval and could not answer why Trump did not endorse her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll need to ask him,\u201d she said of the president\u2019s lack of support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you call it groveling, I would say you didn\u2019t watch the video,\u201d she added. \u201cI think it\u2019s important to know what I said, but also what I didn\u2019t say \u2014 present tense versus past tense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mace told\u00a0<em>the State<\/em>\u00a0that she still supports many of the former president\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>During the South Carolina rally, the former president called out Mace for the Trump Tower video:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is absolutely humiliating for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NancyMace?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NancyMace<\/a>. Although she already humiliated, debased and embarrassed herself. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PVJ7ALKI2e\">https:\/\/t.co\/PVJ7ALKI2e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeidasTouch\/status\/1502809772101279746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>As Breitbart News previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/08\/katie-arrington-comeback-bid-south-carolina-nancy-mace\/\">chronicled<\/a>, Katie Arrington won the nomination during the 2018 midterm elections when she defeated\u00a0Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) with the former president\u2019s endorsement. Unfortunately, events did not unfold as she had planned when she was a passenger in a deadly car crash that relegated her to a wheelchair for the rest of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2018\/07\/16\/republican-arrington-lights-democrat-cunningham-politicizing-tragic-car-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pulled<\/a>\u00a0her off the trail for months and seemingly allowed now-former Democrat Rep. Joe Cunningham (D-SC) to slip past her and take the South Carolina seat \u2014 a Democrat win for the first time in decades. Mace then challenged Cunningham in 2020, defeating him and swinging the seat back to the GOP,\u201d Breitbart News reported.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney faces a tough primary challenge in the state of Wyoming, where the state party\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/15\/wyoming-republican-party-votes-liz-cheney-no-longer-recognized-as-republican\/\">recently voted<\/a>\u00a0that it no longer recognizes her as a Republican. As Breitbart News reported in January, a Wyoming straw poll has Cheney losing to the Trump-backed Harriet Hageman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA secret ballot straw\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/9Ehtk#selection-3637.152-3641.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">poll<\/a>\u00a0of Republican\u00a0party activists gave\u00a0Hageman 59 votes, a 53 vote lead against Cheney, according to the\u00a0<em>Casper Star-Tribune<\/em>.\u00a0Cheney\u00a0garnered only six votes, along with\u00a0state Sen. Anthony Bouchard (R-Cheyenne), who received two votes, and\u00a0Denton Knapp, who received one vote,\u201d said the report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump took aim at two vulnerable Republicans facing tough primary challenges during his rally in South Carolina on Saturday night: Reps. Nancy Mace (SC) and Liz Cheney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}