Invoice Maher Confronts Nancy Mace on Flip-Flopping Over Trump

Late-night host Bill Maher sparred with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) over the one-time Donald Trump critic’s MAGA flip-flop, noting on Friday night time that she was “very arduous” on the previous president following the January 6 revolt.

Throughout an look as a panelist on Actual Time with Invoice Maher, Mace insisted that her shift towards Trump lately was largely as a consequence of President Joe Biden and his insurance policies, complaining that his administration has been “that unhealthy.” Maher, in the meantime, questioned if her recent embrace of Trump had extra to do with the altering demographics of her congressional district.

“Once you ran in 2020, you received by one level. Then they redistricted your space, and I feel it was much less Black individuals, and you then received in 2022 by 14 factors,” Maher acknowledged. “Does that specify the shift in your politics? Since you was once a little bit extra to the center.”

Claiming she’s “very a lot the identical individual” as she was the final time Maher spoke to her, Mace insisted that the rationale she elevated her margin of victory in 2022 was that she was “swinging arduous to battle for ladies” after Roe v. Wade was overturned.

“However you probably did change on Trump. I imply, after Jan. 6. I may learn you the quotes. You had been very arduous on him,” Maher reacted, referencing Mace’s extremely crucial feedback about Trump following the Capitol riots.

“I used to be very arduous. I didn’t prefer it,” she replied, prompting Maher to cite her beforehand saying “we have to discover a option to maintain” Trump accountable for the assault on the Capitol.

“That’s not the place you are actually,” Maher added.

“Properly, we’ve had three years of Joe Biden,” the South Carolina lawmaker shot again.

The Actual Time host additionally requested Mace, who’s reportedly on Trump’s short list of potential running mates, whether or not she would have refused Trump’s request to refuse to certify the 2020 election outcomes if she had been vice chairman on January 6.

“Would you have got completed what Mike Pence did that made Trump so offended?” Maher questioned.

“I licensed the Electoral Faculty in each single state,” she responded. “I imply, that was the fitting factor to do, the constitutional factor to do. And I might do it once more, one hundred pc.”

Maher, in the meantime, jokingly warned Mace that “Donald Trump generally ‘unintentionally’ watches this present,” including that “he received’t be pleased with that reply.”

Elsewhere within the dialog, Maher introduced up Mace’s heated confrontation with ABC Information anchor George Stephanopoulos. The interview featured the congresswoman, a sexual assault survivor, accusing Stephanopoulos of making an attempt to “disgrace a rape sufferer” when he requested her how she may endorse Trump after he was discovered chargeable for sexual abuse. She has since continued to relentlessly rail against the This Week host, including in a House hearing.

“He was questioning you about the concept you’re supporting Trump, who was discovered responsible of sexual assault by a jury in New York within the E. Jean Carroll case, and also you’re a rape sufferer your self. And I assume his implication was that in being so, you shouldn’t help somebody who was convicted of this crime.”

Mace, for her half, mentioned that “Trump wasn’t convicted of sexual assault” and as a substitute was discovered chargeable for defamation and sexual abuse in a civil case.

“The $83 million was a defamation swimsuit. It was about defamation,” she continued. “There was a sexual abuse declare, and she or he received a little bit bit for that, however the overwhelming majority of it was for defamation, not rape, not sexual assault.”

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