Rep. Nancy Mace may have stopped short here The view back in 2023, but appearing on the show doesn't necessarily earn goodwill for a future guest, which became clear this morning. The Republican congresswoman made a splash on the Hot Topics Committee today with her behavior at a House meeting on Tuesday (Jan. 14), when she criticized Rep. Jasmine Crockett for referring to her as a “baby.”
In the restarted interaction The viewCrockett suggested that Mace is trying to raise unnecessary and unfounded fears among her constituents about transgender Americans.
“I can see that someone's campaign coffers are really suffering right now. So [Mace] “He'll keep saying 'trans, trans, trans, trans' until people feel threatened, baby, listen…” Crockett said, but Mace interrupted her and shouted, “I'm not a baby, don't call me baby, I'm not a baby.”
Then she said to Crockett, “If you want to take him outside, we can do that.”
Sunny Hostin, after watching the clip, said she was “stunned” by how “uncivilized” and “brutal” Mayes appeared during the hearing.
“The 'Angry Black Woman' trope is used so often, I wonder where the 'Angry White Woman' trope is,” Hostin said, prompting Joy Behar to chime in, “He was there, we saw him!”
“I'd like to see her — because she told a black woman to 'meet me outside' or 'catch me outside' — be called an angry white woman,” Houston continued. “So let's be clear: It was never about qualifications, and it was never about DEI. We We all know what this was like.
Mace later claimed on X that she did not ask Crockett out to escalate the exchange. “Let me be clear: I wanted to take the conversation off the table to have a more constructive conversation, not to fight. At no time was there any intent to harm anyone,” she wrote.
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