The former chief of staff to Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) is launching a preliminary challenge against her former boss just a month after leaving office.
Submitted by Dan Hanlon Candidacy announcement It was filed with the Federal Election Commission on Friday and will now challenge Mace for the Congressional seat representing South Carolina's 1st Congressional District.
Mr. Hanlon and Mr. Mace had a falling out last October after the South Carolina lawmaker voted with seven other Republicans and all Democrats to expel former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). became.
After the vote, Mr. McCarthy addressed Mr. Hanlon at a press conference and criticized Mr. Mace's claims that he had not kept his word.
“Then I'll call you [Mace’s] chief of staff [Hanlon] …I said, “I don’t know, can you tell me?” Where did you not keep your promise? '' McCarthy told reporters the day he was removed from the chairmanship. “The chief of staff said, 'You kept your word 100 percent.'”
“Her chief of staff told all of us that we would stand by every word we had. And he said he told her that too,” the former speaker added. Ta.
Mr. McCarthy said at a news conference that he would give Mr. Hanlon the job if Mr. Mace fired him.
Mace reportedly “started making ice” [Hanlon] The Daily Mail said Mr McCarthy had “distrusted” him after hearing what he told reporters.
Hanlon is reportedly one of six former Mace staffers who recently resigned, and several former Mace staffers are advising Hanlon on his new campaign. According to the outlet.
The working environment at Mace's office has been described as “toxic,” according to the report. washington examinerand the case of a female lawmaker who frequently made inappropriate comments to subordinates about her sex life.
Hanlon joined Mace's staff in 2021 after four years in the Trump administration's Office of Management and Budget.
Mace's office did not respond to The Post's request for comment.
