One of the Republican Women Headed to Congress

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Independent Women’s Forum is delighted to add Rep.-elect Nancy Mace of South Carolina’s first congressional district to our popular series of Champion Women profiles ([link removed]) .

Mace is one of the newly-elected GOP women who will serve in the 117th Congress—ballots are still being counted in several races, but we know that a historic number of conservative women have been elected, leading some to declare the otherwise unprepossessing 2020 “the year of the Republican women.”

Mace and several other candidates dubbed themselves The Squad during the election, in a sort of reverse homage to the Democratic left women who go by that name. “Since AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib were elected to Congress,” said Mace, “the Democrats have taken a sharp left turn towards socialism, and so calling ourselves The Squad was a way for us to show we can be the antidote to the policies they are pushing on Americans.”

Mace’s name may ring a bell—she made headlines as the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, South Carolina’s venerable military academy. She chronicled the at times uncomfortable experience in a book entitled In the Company of Men: A Woman at the Citadel, which was blurbed by novelist Pat Conroy, The Citadel’s most famous graduate. A woman was elected to Congress from South Carolina in 1938, but Mace will be the first to actually serve.

Mace’s first reaction to being elected to Congress was to go to the Waffle House in Columbia, S.C., which holds special meaning for her. She was a waitress there, and she says she learned valuable lessons about hard work and people there.

If 2020 has gotten your down, we know that Nancy Mace’s bright success story (her life hasn’t been all smooth sailing) will cheer you up.
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Charlotte Hays
Cultural Director
Independent Women's Forum
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