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The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Nancy Mace escalated airport incident into ‘spectacle’, police investigation says

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Nancy Mace speaks at the capitol in Washington DC on 12 November 2025. Photograph: Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A police investigation has found that Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican congresswoman, turned a “minor miscommunication” by police into a “spectacle” when she involved herself in a heated confrontation with staff at Charleston’s airport in late October.

According to an internal investigation by the Charleston airport police department and obtained by the Washington Post, Mace berated officers and Transportation Security Administration ( TSA) personnel on 30 October with profanity and insults, leaving facility employees “visibly upset”.

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