The man South Carolina Representative Nancy Mace cursed at during a visit to a makeup store recently has broken his silence after a video of the pair’s altercation went viral.
The Republican lawmaker lost her composure after a voter inquired whether she would be holding more town halls this year, following her recent decision to skip an event due to safety concerns.
In a post on Facebook, Ely Murray-Quick, wrote about the experience hours before Mace posted the video on X while also posting his own version of the clip.
“We took a trip to Ulta today and ran into none other than Nancy Mace,” he began.
“When asked a simple question — “When are your next few town halls?” — and a polite follow-up for clarification, she immediately jumped to the defensive (shocking, I know). Her response? “I voted for gay marriage,” as if that lone vote somehow erases her consistently harmful record on LGBTQ+ rights. Let’s be clear: one “yay” vote doesn’t undo the damage of her broader political choices.”
Murray-Quick, a realtor based in Charleston, went on to describe Mace as having “a long and disgraceful track record.”
In his version of the video, a woman criticizes Murray-Quick for his language and for calling Mace a “c***.” He responds: “She said it to me, I can say it to her.”
For her part, Mace posted a message relating to the incident on her official congressional X account hours after news of Pope Francis’ death emerged. “Good morning to everyone except men who wear daisy dukes,” she wrote.
In her original post, Mace highlighted Murray-Quick’s clothing choices.
“Some unhinged lunatic, a man, wearing daisy dukes, at a makeup store, got in my face today,” she wrote on X alongside the clip she posted on Saturday. “Dems are nuts. So I went off – and I won’t be backing down.”
In the video, which is just under two minutes long, Mace explained that she had already done one town hall this year and has plans for more before accusing the man of harassing her.
“I asked if you were doing any this year. It was one simple question,” he replied.
Unprompted, Mace then brought up her voting record.
“By the way, I voted for gay marriage twice,” she added.
“What does that have to do with me?” the man responded. “You think everything about me has to do with gay marriage?”
“I do, absolutely,” Mace added. “If you want to get in my face about town halls, you should have shown up to one last year.”
The conversation took a turn after the House Republican repeatedly called the man “crazy.”
“You people on the left are crazy. You’re absolutely f***ing crazy. And get out of my face,” Mace said. “Goodbye. F*** you.”
“You’re going to be voted out so fast this year,” the man said while walking out of the aisle. “You’re a disgrace to this state, that’s what you are. I asked you a simple question, and you just go on this tirade and tell me, ‘F*** you?’ Disgusting.”
“You couldn’t take me on baby. Stay the f*** away from me,” Mace added.
Murray-Quick released a lengthy statement on Mace that largely focused on the her voting record and political views but he also mentioned her personal life.
“It’s hard not to notice the pattern in her personal life: failed relationships, messy entanglements, and a string of self-serving decisions that speak volumes about her judgment,” he wrote.
Mace has been married twice, first to JAG lawyer Chris Niemiec, and later to Curtis Jackson, with whom she had two children. In 2022, she became engaged to businessman Patrick Bryant. The engagement was called off in 2023 when Mace said that she found out Bryant was on a dating app.
In February 2025, Mace launched into a tirade in Congress against Bryant, accusing him and three other men, without evidence, of sexually assaulting and abusing women, including her. One of those men filed a defamation lawsuit against Mace.
Several of Mace’s social media followers rushed to her defense, while others lambasted the GOP lawmaker for her handling of the confrontation.
“He got his own 1v1 townhall,” Georgia Representative Mike Collins commented on the video.
“Watch out for him in your locker room!,” another X user wrote, to which Mace replied: “For real.”
“He asked you a simple question drama queen!,” a third person said.
“This is how a United States Congresswoman behaves?,” another person wrote.
Mace held her first town hall on April 8 over the phone, issuing no prior warning.
A day earlier, she called out “deranged town hall fakers” who were calling her office about ditching the March town hall in her district.
It came after Mace faced flak for skipping a town hall organized by the Lowcountry Accountability Alliance last month. She insisted it was “not safe” for her to attend the town hall and claimed the event was being led by “left-wing extremists.”
“We’re staying away because it’s not safe, and we refuse to be bullied by individuals who are threatening me, my employees, and my family,” she tweeted.
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