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NextImg:Nancy Mace's Democratic House challenger suggests her 'dance' is to vie for vice president

Democrat Michael Moore, who is running to unseat Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) in 2024, accused her "dance" between presenting herself as a centrist Republican and voting for hard-line conservative values of being a strategy to set herself up for higher office.

Mace is "way too extreme" for their district, Moore said, claiming that both Democrats and Republicans can agree. The South Carolina congresswoman, representing the state's 1st Congressional District, has been in the headlines over the last month after she joined several hard-line conservatives in voting to oust Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as House speaker, coming as a surprise to both parties.

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Moore took aim at Mace's policy stances on Friday, claiming that she "voted for a six-week abortion ban, co-sponsored the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, and supported an NDAA amendment making it harder for servicewomen to access healthcare."

"I think she is trying to dance a dance, give a little bit of something to everybody, and hope that she slides under the radar. But apparently, you know, she also maybe, I don't know, is trying to be vice president or trying to get a job on Fox News," Moore said in an interview with MeidasTouch.

"Like who knows, but I think it's really clear, from my vantage point, there's not a lot that Democrats and Republicans can agree on now, but they both agree that Nancy Mace is way too extreme, certainly too extreme for this district," Moore continued.

Mace did co-sponsor the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2023, which would prohibit federal funding for abortion and remains in committee.

However, Mace's other voting records disprove a few of Moore's claims.

Mace has never voted for a six-week abortion ban and even blasted Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and the Florida legislature for its six-week ban that was signed in April. She has long urged her party to be more compassionate toward women, particularly as Republicans head into the 2024 election year.

"Signing a six-week ban that puts women who are victims of rape and girls [who] are victims of incest in a hard spot isn't the way to change hearts and minds. It's not compassionate," Mace said at the time. "The requirements [DeSantis] has for rape victims are too much, not something that I support, is a nonstarter."

Mace has adamantly denied over the years that she would sign on to any legislation that bans abortion without exceptions for rape or incest.

"By and large, most of what my opponent says about abortion and my position is a flat-out lie," Mace said in a 2022 debate against Democratic challenger Annie Andrews, who accused her of the same claim Moore made. "I mean, she just said that I supported and signed on to a bill that would ban all abortions without exceptions. That's a complete and utter lie. The word ‘abortion’ isn't even in that bill."

The bill that Mace references is the Life at Conception Act of 2021, which was introduced by Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) in the House and gained 167 co-sponsors, including Mace, but it died in January of this year, according to Billtrack50. However, contrary to Andrews's claims, it was not a six-week abortion ban because neither a week restriction nor the word "abortion" is mentioned in the bill's language.

"I have not ever voted or sponsored a bill that would ban abortion without exceptions; that's just simply not the case at all," Mace said. "And I would not."

Mace did vote "yes" to help the House pass the National Defense Authorization Act in July, 219-210. However, she criticized fellow Republicans in July for placing an amendment within the package to abortion coverage, stating that those restrictions were directly targeting women.

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“If we want to show America that we come together and that we care about women, then we got to stop being a**holes to women, stop targeting women, and do the things that make a real difference,” she said to the Associated Press. “I’m frustrated as a woman, as a suburban woman, as a girl mom, that we need to show compassion, and we’re just not doing it.”

The Washington Examiner reached out to Mace for comment.