Rep. Nancy Mace’s former high aide, Daniel Hanlon, filed paperwork on Friday to run in opposition to his previous boss in South Carolina’s June congressional major.
In line with the Federal Election Fee, Hanlon has filed to run for Congress in South Carolina’s first district, which Mace has represented since 2021. Hanlon served as her chief of employees till he left Mace’s workplace in December. Enterprise Insider first reported that Hanlon had filed the paperwork to run.
It is a uncommon factor for a former congressional aide to run in opposition to his or her previous boss, however Mace’s workplace has seen waves of exits, and Hanlon is not the primary to publicly categorical his displeasure with Mace. Mace’s former spokesperson, Natalie Johnson, tweeted this when Hanlon and different high aides left Mace’s workplace on the finish of 2023: “You imply to inform me that the girl who’s had six (seven?) communications administrators since me in a two-year span has a poisonous office? Who may’ve seen this coming!?”
Mace began out in Congress as considerably of a Trump critic, talking out in opposition to him when many in her occasion most popular to remain quiet, notably after the assault on the Capitol of Jan. 6, 2021. However over time she has shifted her place inside the GOP convention.
Mace took many unexpectedly when she voted to oust former Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy within the fall. She additionally endorsed former President Donald Trump over former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, although Haley campaigned for Mace when she confronted a Trump-backed major challenger.
The Washington Submit has reported that McCarthy inspired Hanlon to run in opposition to Mace.
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