{"id":2065009,"date":"2023-10-12T14:56:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T18:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-mace-says-she-wont-support-scalise-due-to-supposed-white-supremacist-affiliations\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T19:00:19","slug":"gop-rep-mace-says-she-wont-support-scalise-due-to-supposed-white-supremacist-affiliations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-mace-says-she-wont-support-scalise-due-to-supposed-white-supremacist-affiliations\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Rep Mace refuses to back Scalise over alleged &#8216;white supremacist&#8217; ties."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fgop-rep-mace-says-she-wont-support-scalise-due-to-supposed-white-supremacist-affiliations%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=2065009&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--><h2>Republican Rep. Nancy Mace Takes \u200ca Stand Against Scalise, Supports Jordan for Speaker<\/h2>\n<p>Republican Rep. Nancy Mace\u200c of South Carolina\u2064 has\u200d conjured \u2062a bugbear normally associated with identity-politics-obsessed leftists.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Mace announced that \u2062she would buck the GOP majority and continue to support Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio \u200cfor speaker of the House. Fine.<\/p>\n<p>At \u200dthe same\u2064 time, however, Mace declared that she could not vote for the \u200bparty\u2019s nominee, Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, due to Scalise\u2019s\u200d past \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d connections.<\/p>\n<p>Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, House Republicans held a closed-door vote to nominate a new speaker. \u200cScalise prevailed over\u2063 Jordan by a narrow 113-99 margin.<\/p>\n<p>Mace, \u200btherefore, was not alone in preferring Jordan\u2063 to\u200c Scalise, whom many perceive \u2014 fairly or otherwise \u2014 as the establishment choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will be voting for \u200cJim Jordan for Speaker on the floor,\u201d Mace tweeted Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I will be voting for Jim Jordan for Speaker on \u2063the floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep.\u200c Nancy Mace (@RepNancyMace)\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepNancyMace\/status\/1712220981748551928?\">October 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Also on Wednesday, in an \u200dinterview with CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper, Mace explained her vote. She did it, however, in a way that would make conservatives roll\u200c their eyes if it came from\u200b a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI personally cannot, in good conscience, vote for someone\u2064 who attended a white\u200d supremacist \u200cconference and compared himself to David Duke,\u201d \u2063Mace told Tapper in\u200c an clip posted to X.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mace: I will vote for\u2064 Jim Jordan on the floor. \u200cI personally cannot, in good conscience, \u2063vote for someone who \u200battended a \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/airbnb-blacklists-michelle-malkin-and-her-husband\/\" title=\"Airbnb Blacklists Michelle Malkin - and Her Husband\">white supremacist conference<\/a> and compared himself to \u2062David Duke. . <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PETIPInLxk\">pic.twitter.com\/PETIPInLxk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1712217303088078998?\">October 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For most\u2063 of us, the\u200d \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d label has lost all meaning thanks to liberals\u2019 incessant\u2064 race-mongering.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the \u2062first question any honest reader or listener\u2064 must\u200c ask is\u200c always the same: Is it true?<\/p>\n<p>On Monday \u2014 two days before Mace\u2019s comment\u2062 \u2014\u200c University of Kentucky political science professor D. Stephen Voss \u200dcame to Scalise\u2019s\u200d defense.<\/p>\n<p>In \u2062a commentary pieced published in the Kentucky Lantern, a news\u200d site affiliated with\u200c the state-politics-focused States Newsroom,\u2062 Voss gave an\u200d insider\u2019s view of Scalise designed to refute what\u200c Voss called the \u200b\u201cTwitter mob\u2019s accusations\u201d regarding Scalise\u2019s \u200calleged past connections to white supremacists.<\/p>\n<p>According \u200bto Voss, Scalise\u2019s\u200d documented connection to Duke, \u2063a former GOP politician \u2062and\u200c grand \u200bwizard of the Ku Klux Klan, consists of once\u200c having \u200blived in the same neighborhood as Duke\u2019s\u2063 campaign\u200d manager. \u201cThat\u2019s it,\u201d \u200dVoss wrote.<\/p>\n<p>On\u2064 those grounds,\u200c Voss concluded that \u201cI may have more personal association with Duke than Scalise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Voss derived this conclusion in large part from personal observation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI covered Duke\u2019s\u200c campaigns as a reporter,\u200d watched his legislative career\u200d as a Democratic aide, and analyzed his voting support as an \u200cacademic,\u201d Voss wrote.<\/p>\n<p>As \u2062a former \u201cDemocratic aide,\u201d Voss certainly has\u200d no great love for the GOP. But we need not speculate about \u2064his motives. The pertinent question here involves truth, and on that front \u2062the Scalise \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d accusation appears to lack even a historical basis in fact,\u200b let alone a present one.<\/p>\n<p>In that case, what should we make of Mace\u2019s\u200d comment?<\/p>\n<p>Taking a charitable \u200cview, we might regard it as\u2064 part of an overzealous campaign for her preferred speaker candidate. The GOP divide over a new speaker, after all, remains\u2063 substantial.<\/p>\n<p>In the same Wednesday interview with Tapper, for instance, Mace insisted that \u200deven some Democrats \u201ctrust\u201d Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve \u2064actually \u2064talked to Democrats who trust him \u2064at\u2062 his word. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s out of the realm \u200cof possibility,\u201d Mace said \u200cof the prospect that some Democrats could vote Jordan for speaker.<\/p>\n<p>An incredulous Tapper asked Mace to \u201cname one \u2063Democrat from Congress\u2062 that trusts Jim Jordan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not gonna name people off the record.\u2063 They trust him more than they \u200btrust the \u200cformer speaker, in my private conversations with Democrats. I \u2064will say that,\u201d\u200d Mace replied.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mace: There are Democrats who trust\u2063 Jordan<\/p>\n<p>Tapper:\u200d Jim \u200cJordan?<\/p>\n<p>Mace: Yes<\/p>\n<p>Tapper: \u200bFrom Ohio?<\/p>\n<p>Mace:\u2064 Yes<\/p>\n<p>Tapper: Name \u200cone <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/22QdZLARx2\">pic.twitter.com\/22QdZLARx2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1712219052721013094?\">October 11, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One struggles to imagine Democrats voting for Jordan without suffering \u2064excommunication from the party. Thus, perhaps \u200dMace simply exaggerated and went too far in\u2062 stumping\u2064 for her preferred candidate.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the uncharitable view of this \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d nonsense involves a pattern of Mace\u2019s\u2062 dubious recent behavior.<\/p>\n<p>In July, for instance, she appeared at a prayer \u2063breakfast \u200cand \u200djoked about fornication.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in late September, she lost\u200c her composure and used vulgarity while addressing Democrats during an impeachment inquiry\u200b hearing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\" class=\"one-half\">\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-question\">Do you agree with Mace\u2019s decision?<\/div>\n<div id=\"pollFormBox\" style=\"display: none\">\n<p>\t\t<label>Yes<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<label>No<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-poll-disclaimer\">\n<p>\t\tCompleting this poll entitles you to The Western Journal news updates free \u200dof charge. You may opt \u2064out at anytime. You \u200dalso\u200c agree to \u2063our \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/privacy-policy\/\">Privacy Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/about\/terms-service\/\">Terms of Use<\/a>.\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results\" style=\"display: none\">\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-yes\" style=\"width: 27%\">\n<p>\t\t\tYes: 27% (3 Votes)\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-results-no\" style=\"width: 73%\">\n<p>\t\t\tNo: 73% \u2064(8 Votes)\n\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\tfunction ffp_getCookie(cname) {<br \/>\n\t\t\tvar name=cname + &#8220;=&#8221;;<br \/>\n\t\t\tvar decodedCookie=decodeURIComponent(document.cookie);<br \/>\n\t\t\tvar ca=decodedCookie.split(&#8216;;&#8217;);<br \/>\n\t\t\tfor(var i=0; i <ca.length i var c=\"ca[i];\" while if return c.substring c.length function ffp_setcookie cvalue exdays d=\"new\" date d.settime expires=\"expires=\" d.toutcstring document.cookie=\"cname\" window.ff_poll_voted=\"false;\" voted_cookie_name=\"firefly_voted_3496567\" ff_poll_submit event event.preventdefault fireflypoll=\"jQuery(\" fireflypollcontainer=\"jQuery('#firefly-poll-container');\" pollformbox=\"jQuery('#pollFormBox');\" ffp_getcookie fireflypollcontainer.addclass to assign url here as it was defined only in firefly. firefly_ajax_url=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" posting=\"jQuery.post(\" jquery event.target the datalayer window.datalayer=\"window.dataLayer\" window.datalayer.push poll vote posting.done response response.success yes_el=\"document.getElementById(\" no_el=\"document.getElementById(\" yes_el.style.width=\"response.data.percents.yes\" yes_el.innerhtml=\"Yes: \" response.data.percents.yes response.data.votes.yes votes no_el.style.width=\"response.data.percents.no\" no_el.innerhtml=\"No: \" response.data.percents.no response.data.votes.no fireflypoll.remove pollformbox.hide document.getelementbyid fireflypollcontainer.removeclass else emailfield=\"document.querySelector(\" input emailfield.required=\"false;\" emailfield.style.display=\"none\" border: solid padding: margin-left: margin-right: margin-bottom: width: float: left background: border-radius: margin-top: padding-top: padding-bottom: padding-left: background-color: border-color: cursor: pointer lightgrey white-space: nowrap .firefly-poll-question font-weight: bold font-size: .firefly-poll-disclaimer max-width:><\/p>\n<p>Finally, in a move inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne\u2019s classic novel \u200c\u201cThe Scarlet Letter\u201d, she appeared on Tuesday wearing a white shirt \u201cbranded\u201d with an \u201cA\u201d\u2062 in bold red, an allusion to Hawthorne\u2019s literary protagonist, Hester Prynne, who\u200d committed adultery and \u200dthen had to wear the red \u201cA\u201d as punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Mace wore the\u200d shirt,\u2062 she said, due to \u201cbeing a woman\u200b and being demonized \u200bfor my vote and voice.\u201d Last week, \u200dMace\u200c joined seven other Republicans in voting to oust \u200cthen-speaker Kevin McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>In\u200d the case of both the prayer breakfast and impeachment hearing, Mace appears guilty primarily of poor judgment.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d charge against Scalise, however, coupled with the \u200dscarlet \u201cA\u201d \u200dstunt, raises questions about her willingness to use shopworn and dangerous leftist identity-politics \u200btactics.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps \u2014 reverting once more \u200cto the\u2062 charitable view \u2014 she simply has decided\u2062 to employ \u200dthose tactics against anyone she \u200bperceives as connected to the establishment.<\/p>\n<p>According to that view,\u2063 her use \u200cof identity politics would qualify as \u200dironic. After all, the establishment and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-mace-says-she-wont-support-scalise-due-to-supposed-white-supremacist-affiliations\/\" title=\"GOP Rep Mace refuses to back Scalise over alleged 'white supremacist' ties.\">media minions regularly\u200d slander dissenters<\/a> with \u201csexist\u201d and \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d labels.<\/p>\n<p>Either\u200d way, she plans to vote for Jordan. At the moment, \u200cthat constitutes\u2063 the most important\u200d Mace-related piece of\u2063 news.<\/p>\n<p>As for what to make of the congresswoman\u2019s rhetoric and overall\u200c pattern of behavior, that remains an open question.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gop-rep-mace-says-wont-support-scalise-due-supposed-white-supremacist-affiliations\/\">GOP \u2062Rep Mace Says She Won&#8217;t Support Scalise Due to Supposed &#8216;White Supremacist&#8217; Affiliations<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What impact does making unsubstantiated claims and resorting to identity politics have on the political \u2062climate?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Rall effort by \u200cMace to distance\u2064 herself from what she perceives as the establishment wing\u200c of the Republican Party. By aligning herself with Jordan, who is seen as more of a conservative outsider,\u200c Mace may \u200dbe trying to portray herself as\u200b a true conservative and champion of the \u2063grassroots.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is concerning that Mace would make such a\u2062 serious accusation against Scalise \u2062without \u2064providing any evidence to back it up. Accusing someone of associating with white supremacists is a serious \u200ccharge and should not be made lightly. It is essential to \u2063rely on \u200bfacts \u200dand evidence before making such claims.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, it is\u200c worth noting that Scalise has \u2063not been found guilty of any\u2064 wrongdoing in relation to white supremacy. As Voss\u2064 pointed\u2063 out\u200c in \u2062his commentary, Scalise&#8217;s connection to David Duke is tenuous at \u200bbest\u2063 and does not indicate any support or\u200b endorsement\u2063 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/east-coast-universities-conduct-anti-racist-audit-in-libraries\/\" title=\"East Coast Universities Conduct \u2018Anti-Racist Audit\u2019 In Libraries\">white supremacist ideologies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mace&#8217;s decision to support Jordan over Scalise\u2062 is a\u200b matter \u2062of \u2064personal \u2064preference and should be\u2064 respected. However, her justification for not supporting Scalise\u2064 based \u2062on his alleged past connections\u200c to white supremacists seems unfounded and \u2062lacking in evidence.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s polarized\u200b political climate, it is crucial for elected representatives to engage in honest\u200d and fair discourse, based\u200d on facts and evidence. Making unsubstantiated claims and resorting to\u2064 identity politics only deepens the divide and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fetterman-sinks-to-all-time-low-repeats-wild-antics-with-dems-face-taped-to-shirt\/\" title=\"Fetterman hits rock bottom: Repeats outrageous behavior with Dem's face on shirt.\">prevents meaningful dialogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As\u2062 constituents, we should hold\u2062 our representatives accountable\u200c for \u2064their\u2063 statements and demand that they provide evidence to support their claims. Accusations of white supremacy are serious and \u2062should not be thrown \u2064around lightly. It is\u200c crucial to have a\u200d thorough understanding of \u2062the \u2062facts before making\u2064 such accusations.<\/p>\n<p>In the \u200ccase of Rep. Nancy Mace, her decision to support\u200b Rep. Jim Jordan\u2063 for \u2063Speaker\u2062 of the House is her prerogative. However, her \u200dassertion that Rep. Steve \u200dScalise \u200chas &#8220;white supremacist&#8221; connections appears to be without basis\u200c and undermines the integrity of serious\u2064 conversations about racism\u2062 and extremism.<\/p>\n<p>As citizens, we must demand more from our elected representatives. We should expect them to engage in informed \u2064and responsible discourse, based on facts and evidence.\u200b Accusations of white supremacy\u2064 should not be used as \u200dpolitical \u200btools or\u200b rhetorical devices. Our country\u2063 deserves a\u200c commitment to \u200btruth and honest dialogue, even \u2062in the midst of political disagreements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Rep. Nancy Mace from South Carolina defies her party by supporting Rep. Jim Jordan for House speaker. 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