Source:CNN– U.S. Representative Nancy Mace (Republican, South Carolina) talking to Kaitlan Collins.

Source:The New Democrat

“Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) talks with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins about her vote to oust Kevin McCarthy from his role as speaker and the backlash she has received since the vote.”

From CNN

Representative Nancy Mace represents perhaps the only Democratic leaning seat in the State of South Carolina, at least on the Republican side. Every other South Carolina Republican in the House, represents right-wing, Republican, heavy, districts. I’m just saying this because she’s a vulnerable House Republican both with Republicans and Democrats in that district.

Having said all of that, she makes a very good case for why she voted to vacate Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The style of leadership that Kevin McCarthy had as Speaker, was doing exactly what Nancy Pelosi did when she was Speaker, which was to right the bills that made it to the House floor, from the House Republican Leadership office and the try to round up enough Republican votes to pass the bill.

Perhaps Speaker McCarthy would consult both center-right Republicans like Representative Mace, as well as MAGA Republicans like Matt Gaetz first and try to find something that they both could support. But his style of legislating, was doing exactly what he criticized Speaker Pelosi for, which was backroom deals, last minute pieces of legislation, where perhaps even the handful of people who wrote the bill, didn’t even read the bill. (Go, figure. Welcome to Congress.)

What Representative Mace who is a center-right, Conservative Republican is saying, along with even the MAGA Republicans are saying, is that they want the whole House to be able to write, amend, and read the bills, before they have to vote on them. Which is apparently what Speaker McCarthy promised them, as a condition for becoming Speaker of the House back in January. And they make great points here.