Nancy Mace Challenges Democratic Rival to a Fight on House Floor

A meeting of the House Oversight Committee erupted into chaos when Nancy Mace challenged a Democratic lawmaker to a fight.

The Republican congresswoman, a lighting rod for controversy in recent months, was offended that Jasmine Crockett had called her “child” while criticizing her fixation on anti-trans messaging.

“Somebody’s campaign coffers really are struggling right now,” Crockett said of Mace. “So she can’t keep saying trans, trans, trans, so that people will feel threatened. And child, listen—”

Mace immediately interrupted, yelling: “I am no child! Do not call me a child. I am no child. Don’t even start. I am a grown woman, 47 years old.”

While Crockett tried to continue speaking, Mace kept screaming.

“I have broken more glass ceilings,” Mace shouted over Crockett. “You will not do that. I am not a child. I am not a child. If you want to take it outside.”

Meanwhile, the committee’s chairman, Republican Rep. James Comer, pounded his gavel and repeatedly called for order to no avail.

Shortly after the meeting, Crockett addressed the heated moment on X writing: “Nancy Mace loved the ‘uneducated’ as Trump calls them. Please explain to me how the same damn Karen that called Cap Police on a child who shook her hand wanted to act like she wanted to fight me?!

“ME… the same person who has represented real killers in court. She’s an attention seeking loser who clearly has some fundraising goals to hit… and to be clear that is the only thing that she will hit…

“SN: Republicans incite violence from the highest levels of government & ALSO claim to be the party of law & order,” she continued. “The two cannot be true! Do yourself a favor, decide to require better of your electeds. Last I checked, threatening members in a committee room doesn’t exactly reduce the cost of eggs.”

Meanwhile, Mace addressed the incident in a series of posts on X where she claimed that Crockett wants “to act all high and mighty” and that she was “playing the victim.”

In one post, complemented by a video of their altercation, Mace wrote: “I’m no child. And if I wanted a physical fight, you’d know it. That’s not what this was.

“I won’t be bullied by someone who wants to take away women’s rights while lecturing about civil rights,” she added. “I won’t be bullied by someone who thinks being scared of rape is a ‘fantasy.’ This ain’t political, it’s personal.”

Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost, another member of the committee, took to social media after the hearing to share his perspective on the incident.

“Nancy Mace asked Jasmine Crockett to ‘go outside,’” he wrote on X. ”Chair Comer ruled that threatening violence against another member is okay, as long as it’s in the form of a question! Wild.”

Mace made headlines in November for her successful campaign to ban then-incoming Rep. Sarah McBride, who is transgender, from using the Capitol Hill bathrooms corresponding to her gender identity.

The Oversight Committee outburst is not the first time that Mace has expressed an openness to violence.

As rioters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Mace reportedly pleaded with her staffers to let her “get punched in the face.”

“She literally begged us to let her leave the office and head to the floor so she could ‘get punched in the face’ and ‘get media attention,’” a former aide for Mace told the Daily Beast in January 2024. “That’s word for word what she requested.”