Candace Owens Plays a Nancy Mace Clip. Mace Answers 'Nothing Funny About Dead Children.' Owens Answers With a News Report on a Lawsuit Against Mace. Mace Answers With a Cat-Licking Meme.
On October 9, 2026, Candace Owens played a clip of Nancy Mace on her show, calling it 'objectively hilarious.' In the clip, as Owens aired it, Mace says: 'Every time you call a friend, like, hey, do you want to hang out? They're like, no, I'm just, I have plans to kill my kids tonight. What?' At noon Mace posted the clip herself and wrote: 'There is absolutely NOTHING funny about dead children... Is this a cry for help?' At 3:30 PM Owens answered with a screenshot of an ABC News 4 report on a lawsuit against Mace and an insult in her own voice. At 5:03 PM Mace posted a line drawing of a woman drawn as Owens licking a hairless cat, with the words 'Candy - this you?' Every quote is verbatim and every claim about the lawsuit belongs to the people who made it. Maceopedia reaches no conclusion about the lawsuit and assigns no one a motive.
Source note: this dispatch is built on three public posts on X, all dated October 9, 2026, and on the video attached to the first of them. Quotes are verbatim from the posts and from the audio of the video, checked word by word with a timed transcript. Claims about the lawsuit are attributed to ABC News 4, which reported them, and to the people who made them. They are allegations in a civil case. Maceopedia takes no position on them. Nothing here is a finding about anyone's character, health or motives.
"Candy - this you?"
That is Rep. Nancy Mace, from her personal account @NancyMace, at 5:03 PM ET on Friday, October 9, 2026. It is her third post in a public exchange with Candace Owens that began about five hours earlier. The post is those four words, Owens' handle, and a picture: a line drawing, credited in the image to ImperiumFirst, of a woman drawn as Owens with her tongue against the face of a hairless cat.
Her post on X, October 9, 2026, 5:03 PM ET. See the original. The drawing is credited in the image to ImperiumFirst and is shown only as part of the post.
How the day went
| When (ET) | Who | What |
|---|---|---|
| Earlier in the day | Candace Owens | Plays a clip of Mace on her show (cut at the top of this page). |
| 12:00 PM | Nancy Mace | Posts the show clip on her own account with: "There is absolutely NOTHING funny about dead children. If @RealCandaceO has proof the killer-mother epidemic is an Israeli psyop, I'd love for her to share. Is this a cry for help?" Post |
| 3:30 PM | Candace Owens | Quotes that post. Post |
| 5:03 PM | Nancy Mace | "Candy - this you?" over the drawing. Post |
The clip
The cut at the top is Owens' own show footage, which Mace posted to X herself. It runs 45 seconds. Maceopedia cut Owens' introduction to the point where she names Mace, her words "Take a listen," and the clip she plays, with her reaction shots. The full two-minute video, including the part where Owens reads Mace's own X posts about mothers and the death penalty, is on Mace's post.
What Owens says before the clip, verbatim: "But I want you to check out this objectively hilarious clip of rep Nancy Mace." She goes on to say that Mace "has accepted over six figures from AIPAC and cannot utter a single bad word about Israel." That is Owens' assertion about Mace and about a third party's money. We have not checked it and have cut it.
What is said in the clip, verbatim. We could not find the full original of this clip, so the date, the show and the question that was asked of her are not known to us. Owens' cut of it, as posted by Mace, includes these lines, in order:
Mace, in the clip. "Just don't know why all these moms are trying to kill their kids. I don't know what's going on. I just, to me as a mom of children, two kids, I can't even imagine this is beyond postpartum psychosis, beyond postpartum depression. I don't know what this culture is, that this is what's happening. Why are moms killing their kids? I can't even call a friend. I can't call my sister. Everybody's just doing this. It's an epidemic. Every time you call a friend, like, hey, do you want to hang out? They're like, no, I'm just, I have plans to kill my kids tonight. What? What are we talking about?"
Transcript note. One phrase is hard to hear. A large timed pass hears "I plan to"; two other passes on the same audio hear "I have plans to." The captions use "I have plans to." The word "Well," before "I can't even call a friend" is faint, unclear on every pass, and left out. The clip is cut and joined by the show, and we do not know what was cut from it. How to read the line, as a joke, an illustration, or something else, is left to the viewer. Mace's own reply is quoted below.
What each of them said
Owens, in the video: says "you recognize these are the signs of a PSYOP," plays the clip, then reads Mace's X posts: "Why is the news covering for mother murderers? Stop calling her a homeowner. Call her what she is. She was their mother and is charged with killing her kids," then "Vivian was four years old. A judge ruled that she was going home to her dad and she never made it there," then "Not only did she stab her kids 50 times, but she took a baseball bat to them. Also, perhaps the South Carolina legislature could make an exception to the death penalty. By firing squad. We ain't got no time for this. Send her to hell." Mace's own firing-squad remarks are covered in her October 1 podcast dispatch.
Mace, in her post: "There is absolutely NOTHING funny about dead children. If @RealCandaceO has proof the killer-mother epidemic is an Israeli psyop, I'd love for her to share. Is this a cry for help?"
Her post on X, with the video. See the original.
Mace's post frames Owens' claim as "the killer-mother epidemic is an Israeli psyop." In the video, Owens uses the word "PSYOP." We saw no evidence offered for that claim in either post or in the video.
Owens, in her post at 3:30 PM: "Hey Nance, between your two failed marriages, plus your recent failed engagement which ended with you being sued for claims that you installed extraction software onto his phone because you're a psycho who blackmails men, maybe worry about your own household for once?" (Her two dashes are rendered as commas here.) It quotes Mace's post and carries a phone screenshot of an ABC News 4 article.
Her post on X, October 9, 2026, 3:30 PM ET. See the original. The article excerpt is ABC News 4's.
"Psycho who blackmails men" is Owens' characterization, in her own voice. Maceopedia does not adopt it.
The lawsuit she is pointing to
The screenshot in Owens' post is from ABC News 4's report, "Rep. Nancy Mace's ex-fiancé, alleges defamation, blackmail in newly filed lawsuit." The excerpt visible in her post reads: "According to court documents, Bryant alleges Mace hacked his phone in an attempt to blackmail him after their relationship ended, believing he was dating other women." And: "On Nov. 13, 2023, Bryant said he woke up to find Mace searching through his phone. She allegedly installed data-extraction software to recover 'deleted messages and files.'"
Those are allegations, in the words ABC News 4 used for them: "alleges," "allegedly." They are claims in a civil case in Charleston County, South Carolina, as ABC News 4 (reporter Ian Kayanja, WCIV) reported them on November 7, 2025. The same report quotes Mace's response when the station asked her about the suit: she called the lawsuit another example of Bryant attempting to use the legal system against her, and said, "It's almost as if Patrick Bryant is trying to write me another check." Maceopedia takes no position on the lawsuit. This page does not adjudicate it, and Owens' words about it are hers.
The meme
Maceopedia does not host the drawing apart from the screenshot of Mace's post. What it shows: a woman drawn as Owens, in a plaid top, tongue out against the face of a hairless cat, under Mace's words, "Candy - this you?" "Candy" is Mace's name for Owens in the post.
The joke in the drawing is a crude cat pun about lesbian sex, aimed at a woman, and meant as an insult. That is why Maceopedia lists the post in the Lesbians section of its hate-speech record, next to Mace's other dated statements about the groups she has targeted. We found no statement from Mace saying what she meant by it, and the placement reflects what the picture is, not what she said about it. If she or her office explains it, the explanation goes on the record here.
Why this is on Maceopedia
A sitting member of Congress, in one afternoon, posted a clip, asked another public figure whether she was crying for help, and answered a public insult with a picture whose joke is a sex pun about lesbians. Maceopedia keeps the record of what she says, when, and in what words, with the source shown. We reach no conclusion about Owens' claims, about the lawsuit, or about anyone's state of mind. The words are theirs.
Sources & related coverage
- The show clip, as posted by Mace (primary source): @NancyMace on X, October 9, 2026, with the 2:01 video.
- Owens' reply: @RealCandaceO on X, October 9, 2026, 3:30 PM ET.
- Mace's meme post: @NancyMace on X, October 9, 2026, 5:03 PM ET. The drawing is credited in the image to ImperiumFirst.
- The lawsuit report quoted in Owens' post: ABC News 4 (WCIV), November 7, 2025, "Rep. Nancy Mace's ex-fiancé, alleges defamation, blackmail in newly filed lawsuit".
- On this site: Hate speech, Nancy Mace in her own words; Mace asks the legislature for a firing squad for one untried woman (October 1).
Quotes are verbatim from the three posts and from the audio of the video attached to the first. Claims about the lawsuit are ABC News 4's and the parties'. No minor is named. Nothing here is a finding of fact about anyone.
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