Nancy Mace on Election Night: 'The Only Thing Worse Than Being Fed a Pile of Sh*t Is Being Asked to Swallow It'

Wednesday, November 4, 2026.

Nancy Mace watched the midterms from a TV studio beside the Capitol. Over four hours on Piers Morgan's live election special she predicted the Republican losses, dismissed the Democrat who went on to win South Carolina's Senate seat, and cursed on air as the results came in. Here is what she said, checked against the tape.

Source: Piers Morgan Uncensored's live midterm election special, streamed on YouTube on Nov. 3, 2026 (4 hours, 1 minute). Mace sat on the panel for the whole broadcast with podcaster Dave Smith and commentator Omar Baddar. Her official account posted "About to be live!" at 6:58 p.m. Eastern. Times in brackets are the broadcast's own timestamps, and each links to that moment. We transcribed all four hours and checked the quotes below against the audio a second time, word by word.

"Being asked to swallow it"

Just under two hours in, while the panel was talking about 2028, Mace looked at the returns on the studio screens.

"I'm looking at the numbers right now, South Carolina Senate looks like we're losing it. We look like, I just found out, we're losing my seat. I won my seat two years ago by 18 points. And so when I decided not to run for re-election, I thought I was leaving it in good hands. So I am very worried about my home state of South Carolina right now," she said. Then: "But the only thing worse than being fed a pile of shit is being asked to swallow it" (1:55:24).

What we could verify:

• Whose seat. Mace was not on the ballot. She ran for governor instead of a fourth House term, finished fifth in the June 9 Republican primary, and leaves the House on Jan. 3, 2027. "My seat" is South Carolina's 1st District, which she has held since 2021.
• 18 points. Mace won the seat in 2024 with 227,502 votes (58.2 percent) to Democrat Michael B. Moore's 162,582 (41.6 percent). That is 16.6 points, not 18.
• The seat last night. Democrat Nancy Lacore, a retired Navy admiral, led Republican Jenny Costa Honeycutt 49.65 percent to 48.64 percent when the State Election Commission reported full results at about 2:30 a.m., with 3,308 votes between them. Libertarian Bill Reeside had 1.65 percent (Post and Courier). Decision Desk HQ projected Lacore the winner, and The Hill reported that she flipped the seat. Lacore claimed victory before midnight and said, "We know there will be a recount." Honeycutt said problems reading early-voting ballots in Dorchester County made it "impossible to declare a winner," and we found no concession. The margin, about 1 point, is close to the 1 percent line at which South Carolina law requires a recount. The result is not certified.

"It's not unfucking real"

At about 10 p.m., Morgan cut in. "Big moment, big moment, big moment alert," he said. "South Carolina Senate seat is projected to go to the Democrat, Annie Andrews. CBS has made that call now."

"It's not unfucking real," Mace said. "Sorry, you said I could curse" (3:01:40). Morgan: "I'm not complaining."

She went on: "We hadn't had a Democrat since 1998. He was a blue dog Democrat. He was a moderate Democrat. He was a friend of mine. Fritz Hollings was his name." And: "This is not a vote for Annie Andrews. This is a vote against a coronation. This is a vote against nepotism" (3:02:00). Then she came back to the 1st District: "The Republican is losing my seat right now that I won by 18 points two years ago" (3:02:38).

What we could verify:

• The call. NBC News called the race at about 9:59 p.m., with Andrews ahead 51 percent to 46.8 percent. CBS, ABC, The New York Times and the AP also called it for Andrews. Unofficial returns this morning show Andrews with about 51.1 percent to Graham's 46.7 percent. Graham called Andrews to concede and said, "It is clear that we as conservatives have work to do" (AP). Andrews is the first woman elected to the Senate from South Carolina (AP).
• 1998. Correct. The AP: "Fritz Hollings was the last Democrat elected to a Senate seat in South Carolina, winning his final term in 1998." Republicans have held both of the state's Senate seats since he retired in 2005.
• The coronation. Sen. Lindsey Graham died on July 11, 2026, at age 71. Gov. Henry McMaster appointed his sister, Darline Graham, on July 13, and she was sworn in the next day (CBS News). She won the Republican nomination in an Aug. 25 runoff against Rep. Ralph Norman, whom Mace had endorsed.
• 18 points, again: it was 16.6.

Two hours earlier: "This was not a hard race"

Fifty minutes into the broadcast, Morgan read out prediction-market odds showing Graham falling behind Andrews. Mace first said she had been warned off the seat herself. "I was told not to run for that seat. I was told by the administration, by people in the White House, I was told not to run" (0:51:34). Then: "Anyone could have won the seat with an R by their name" (0:51:44).

A minute later she turned to Andrews, the pediatrician she beat for the House in 2022. "Four years ago, I beat Annie Andrews by 14 points. This was not a hard race. She is a very woke, liberal white woman. She checks all the boxes of the terrible things of liberal white women" (0:52:37).

What we could verify:

• The 2022 race. Mace won the 1st District that year with 56.4 percent to Andrews' roughly 42.5 percent, a margin of about 14 points (ABC News 4, as reported by the Daily Caller). Her number is right.
• "I was told not to run." The day after Lindsey Graham died, a source close to Mace told ABC News she was considering a run. On July 13, Axios reported that Trump wanted Graham's sister as the replacement, not Mace. On July 20, Mace said she would not run, and gave a different reason: "I'm not running for the Senate, not because I'm backing down from a fight, but because of the one I'm already in" (WBTV). Later that month she said Darline Graham "has no record and I'm not even sure that she's qualified to be on the ballot" (Fox News). We found no earlier public report of anyone in the White House telling her not to run. That part rests on her word.
• Darline Graham's record. At an Aug. 18 runoff debate, Graham said, "National security is not my thing" (NBC News).

The prediction

Early in the first hour, Morgan asked whether Republicans would lose both chambers. "Oh, for sure. 100%," Mace said (0:05:41). Her reason, a minute later: "It started with Epstein, and it's going to end with the Iran war" (0:06:36).

What we could verify: She was right. NBC News projected at 11:24 p.m. that Democrats had captured full control of Congress. CBS News projected a Democratic Senate majority at 11:41 p.m. and said Democrats would also take the House. The Associated Press reported at 2:57 a.m. Wednesday that Democrats had won both the House and the Senate.

The Epstein vote

In the third hour, talking about Vivek Ramaswamy, who lost the Ohio governor's race to Democrat Amy Acton, Mace said he "deserves the beating tonight because of that stupid fucking ad." Then she talked about herself. "I'm one of the only four Republicans who voted to release the Epstein files. Three of us aren't coming back to Congress because of that vote" (2:18:39).

Five minutes later she came back to it, calling the night "a rejection of the Iran war. It's a rejection of pedophile protectors. I mean, the folks that didn't support the Epstein files released are getting tanked tonight" (2:23:23).

What we could verify:

• "Voted." The House passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act on Nov. 18, 2025, by 427 to 1 (House Roll Call 289). Nearly every Republican voted for it. What set the four apart came earlier: Mace, Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert were the four Republicans who signed the discharge petition that forced the vote.
• "Three of us aren't coming back." Greene resigned from Congress effective Jan. 5, 2026. Massie lost his May 19, 2026, Kentucky primary to Trump-backed Ed Gallrein. Mace finished fifth for governor. So three of the four are leaving, as she said. Boebert's own race against Democrat Eileen Laubacher, a retired Navy rear admiral, was too close to call at midnight (Colorado Sun). That they are leaving "because of that vote" is her explanation.

What she does next

Morgan asked what she would do about the losses. "Well, I'm not in it right now," she said. "I'm leaving Congress. I believe in term limits." She said she would podcast: "I have my little podcast called Get Maced." And: "When I leave in January, I don't know if I'll have health insurance. I don't know if I'm going to be able to afford it" (3:03:32).

The morning after

By dawn she was posting from her campaign account, @NancyMace. At 4:45 a.m.: "We lost young white men because they don't want to be conscripted into a war they don't want to fight!" At 6:36 a.m.: "We lost good people last night. Some of them deserved better. Some of them should have listened. The American people did not ask for another war in the Middle East. They told us. Loud and clear." At 7:14 a.m.: "This fucking war. That's the tweet."

During the broadcast, at 10:30 p.m., her official account, @RepNancyMace, posted: "Reminder: We have John Thune to thank for not passing the SAVE America Act and securing our elections earlier."

Sources

• Piers Morgan Uncensored, "US Midterm Elections Results LIVE," YouTube, Nov. 3, 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=oYb-35YNgCc. Maceopedia transcript of all four hours, with a second word-by-word pass on the quoted passages.
• Post and Courier, 1st District results, updated after 2:30 a.m. Nov. 4, 2026; WCIV (ABC News 4), Nov. 4, 2026.
• The Associated Press, NBC News, CBS News and ABC News election-night calls and reports, Nov. 3 and 4, 2026.
• CBS News on Darline Graham's appointment, July 2026; NBC News on the Aug. 18, 2026, runoff debate; ABC News, July 12, 2026; Axios, July 13, 2026; WBTV, July 20, 2026; Fox News, July 2026.
• U.S. House Roll Call 289 (H.R. 4405), Nov. 18, 2025; Colorado Sun, Nov. 4, 2026.
• 2022 and 2024 1st District results: ABC News 4 via the Daily Caller; official results as compiled by Wikipedia.
• @NancyMace and @RepNancyMace on X, Nov. 3 and 4, 2026.