Former Nancy Mace staffers working with ex-chief of staff to unseat her, sources say

Rep. Nancy Mace’s former chief of staff is being propped up by her personal ex-staffers as he mulls a major problem in opposition to her, two sources instructed Fox News Digital.

Dan Hanlon joined Mace’s workplace in 2021 after serving within the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget. He departed final month below reportedly contentious circumstances.

A supply acquainted with his plans instructed Fox News Digital that Hanlon was being approached a few potential run for Mace’s seat, and two sources stated that a number of former staffers have been informally aiding Hanlon in some capability.

The supply stated not less than one is a former communications director for Mace who’s now serving to Hanlon and stated “there are many” ex-staffers of hers in his place.

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Rep. Nancy Mace is potentially facing a primary challenge from her former top aide. (Getty Images)

“I along with several other former staff are backing Hanlon in some sort of way,” the second source said. 

“Dan is receiving great feedback because for years he did the actual job of serving the constituents of South Carolina in Congress while Nancy Mace was busy going on TV and getting her net worth up millions,” the first source familiar with Hanlon’s plans stated. “Both the donor class and grassroots voters are tired of Mace privately bashing Trump and publicly bashing real conservatives as a–holes.”

Hanlon’s potential major problem was first reported in Politico earlier this week. 

Fox News Digital requested Mace about these studies on Capitol Hill Thursday. She stated, “I believe we put a statement out. He’s going to have to move to the district if he has to run.”

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Mace’s workplace noticed a slew of staff departures on the finish of final 12 months (Getty Images)

When reached for remark, Doug Stafford, a spokesman for Mace’s re-election marketing campaign, instructed Fox News Digital, “This can’t be true. Mace couldn’t get this lucky? Well, would he move there, cause he sure as s— doesn’t live there now!”

The supply acquainted with Hanlon’s plans responded to her accusation about his residing outdoors the district, “Dan owns a home in the district. Rep. Mace had her ex-fiancé buy her one.”

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Mace’s former staffers coalescing round her former high aide comes after a number of studies of a poisonous office tradition in her workplace. She’s seen a slew of staff departures in latest months as well as to Hanlon’s.

Two sources instructed Fox News Digital that the potential major problem is backed by her different former staff. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc by way of Getty Images)

Mace was accused of making lewd feedback within the workplace by three sources who spoke anonymously with the Daily Mail in December. 

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A Daily Beast report from November claimed Mace had a “handbook” for staffers that allegedly stated, amongst different issues, that her workplace should ship out not less than one press launch per day and put her on TV not less than 9 occasions per week.

Mace instructed Fox News Digital throughout a Nov. 3 interview that she had not learn the report, and shrugged off its accusations.