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“This guy approached me and I will tell you I felt threatened and harassed. 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.” – Rep. Nancy Mace, crying to Sean Hannity last night, after which her spokesperson said, “If you harass a Congresswoman in public while wearing daisy dukes, maybe you’re the problem. The Congresswoman has every right to stand up for herself when she’s being harassed.”
The Advocate reports:
On Saturday, Charleston resident Ely Murray-Quick walked into an Ulta store and spotted Mace in the skin care aisle. He asked a straightforward question: Would she be holding an actual town hall any time soon?
She responded by filming him, shouting “F**k you,” and later posting the video on social media, framing Murray-Quick — a gay small-business owner — as an aggressor. But the video she shared, which has since been viewed nearly 7 million times, shows Murray-Quick standing calmly at a distance, never threatening her.
Speaking to The Advocate on Monday, Murray-Quick said, “A fire was lit. Being a gay man in South Carolina, I’ve had my fair share of hurtful insults thrown my way. And I’ve given myself a thicker skin because of it. So a simple ‘f**k you’ from Nancy Mace isn’t going to hurt me the way that she thinks it does.”
The Daily Beast reports:
Appearing on Laura Coates Live on CNN Monday night, Murray-Quick told the host he was “expecting a proper response, a response that you would expect of elected representatives from our state. Maybe even a schedule.” He also rebuffed the Trump acolyte’s assertion that he was “aggressive” and “in her face,” saying that he was at least eight feet away from her at all times.
“Nancy Mace likes to play the victim card, but that’s not what happened here,” he told Coates. “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. There was no physical confrontation. There was no aggression. She wasn’t locked in the aisle. She was free to leave and not answer my question if she had chosen to.”
Mace has pinned her video to the top of her X account. Yesterday she implied to a commenter that her constituent is a sexual predator.
Voter Accuses Nancy Mace of ‘Playing the Victim Card’ as He Speaks Out About Heated Exchange on CNN: ‘We Don’t Owe Her Anything!’ https://t.co/iUSTxIXjrx
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