Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace seemed like she was talking to lifelong pals during a girl’s night out in the clip below. But she was actually — to the shock of many in attendance — speaking at Presidential candidate Tim Scott‘s prayer breakfast.
It was, to judge from the reactions, the wrong place for Mace to say her fiance tried to pull her back into bed that morning, and then to boast that she had the self-discipline to tell him to wait and, with a big smile, say she’d be “back tonight.” (The implication being for some action.)
Nancy Mace at Tim Scott's prayer breakfast:
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 27, 2023
"I woke up this morning at 7, Patrick my fiancé tried to pull me by my waist in bed and I was like 'no baby we don't have time for that this morning' I gotta get to the prayer breakfast… He can wait. I'll see him later tonight." pic.twitter.com/LzAJ5M84P1
“When I woke up this morning at 7,” Mace said, “Patrick my fiancé tried to pull me by my waist in bed and I was like ‘no baby we don’t have time for that this morning’ I gotta get to the prayer breakfast… He can wait. I’ll see him later tonight.”
Mace seemed to read the room a little bit when she confessed her story was “a little TMI.” That’s “too much information” for the acronym challenged. As one commenter put it: “Imagine going out unsexed in the morning and then telling people about it. mega cringe.”
What also did not go unnoticed was that the unmarried Mace was referring to premarital sex, another sort of off-brand thing at evangelical prayer breakfasts, even if their candidate of choice is Stormy Daniels sugar daddy Donald Trump — that is if one counts hush money as sugar.
Mace owned her comments afterward and was grateful she didn’t get more heat from the hosts, including Scott. “I go to church because I’m a sinner not because I’m a saint!” she wrote.
I go to church because I’m a sinner not because I’m a saint!
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) July 27, 2023
Glad those in attendance, including @SenatorTimScott and our pastor, took this joke in stride. Pastor Greg and I will have a little extra to talk about on Sunday now 😂 https://t.co/krK2f1ALNZ
But her lighthearted attempt to lend forgivable context to her comments fell on deaf ears in some places, with one commenter writing: “If your pastor was really a pastor he’d be counseling you on not publicly joking about living in unrepentant sin.”
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