Former chief of staff for South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace is considering mounting a primary challenge against her former boss, according to a report.
Dan Hanlon is actively engaging with potential donors and potential campaign staff as he considers running against the 46-year-old Republican congressman in Palmetto’s 1st Congressional District, according to Politico.
“Hanlon has been delighted with how well the idea has been received and how many people are looking for a Mace alternative, both the money people in DC and the movers and shakers in [South Carolina],” a Republican familiar with Hanlon’s decision-making told the outlet.
Hanlon, who before joining Mace’s staff in 2021 worked for four years in the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget, left the South Carolina lawmaker’s office last month.
The work environment in Mace’s office has been described as “toxic,” according to the Washington Examiner, and an environment in which female congressmen often subject subordinates to inappropriate comments about her sex life.
Mace was one of eight members of the House of Representatives who voted with all Democrats to oust former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Mace’s former chief of staff Dan Hanlon has until the end of March to decide whether or not to take on his former boss. Facebook
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) referred to Hanlon — who was reportedly among six former Mace staffers who recently quit working for him — shortly after last October’s vote to remove him as speaker.
Mace, one of eight GOP lawmakers who voted in favor of ousting the former speaker, was called out by McCarthy over his claims that he had broken his promises.
“So, I called [Mace’s] Chief of staff [Hanlon] … I said, ‘Can you tell me, I don’t understand? Where did I not keep my word?’” McCarthy told reporters the day he was removed from the speakership. “The chief of staff said, ‘You have kept your word 100%.’
Hanlon worked for four years in the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget. Getty Images Mace, one of eight GOP lawmakers who voted in favor of ousting the former speaker, was called out by McCarthy over his claims that he had not kept his word. Shutterstock
“His chief of staff told us all we had kept our word. And he said he told him too,” added the former speaker.
McCarthy stated during the press conference that he would give Hanlon a job if Mace fired him.
Hanlon faces a March 30 deadline to file his candidacy in South Carolina’s First District race.
Mace’s office did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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