Rep. Nancy Mace (RS.C.) has a new challenger in her 2024 primary race, and it's someone she knows well: her former chief of staff.
Dan Hanlon recently left Mace's office after about two years. I submitted the documents on Friday. He worked with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to challenge Mr. Mace in the race for South Carolina's First Congressional District.
Mace, who has become a controversial figure within the Republican Party, has been representing the district since 2021.
Within her first year in office, she experienced a flurry of staff departures and layoffs. During the turbulent six weeks between July 1 and August 15, 2021, four of the eight staffers who worked in the congressman's Washington office quit.
Some former employees say the toxic work environment has “nothing to do with politics.”
It is unusual for a former chief of staff of a lawmaker to launch a campaign against his former boss. Before Mr. Mace took office and joined the company, Mr. Hanlon served as a senior official at the Office of Management and Budget in the Trump administration, and former Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R.S.C., of Business Insider, who first broke the news about Mr. Hanlon, I was working under. filing, report.
according to votingpediaMace is also scheduled to face Austin Anderson, a 27-year-old Uber driver who announced his candidacy in the Republican primary last February. Business executive Michael Moore and lawyer Mack Deford, both Democrats, have also announced their names in the race.
The Hill has reached out to Mace's office for comment.
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