Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace, who has been waging war on trans rights, has announced her bid to be governor of South Carolina.

“God’s not done with South Carolina and neither am I,” Mace wrote in a post on X/Twitter announcing the launch of her run on Monday (4 August). “You and me, our mission begins now.”

Delivering a speech at The Citadel, South Carolina’s military college, from where which she was the first woman to graduate from the Corps of Cadets in 1999, Mace said: “I didn’t come to join the club. They don’t want me and I don’t want them.

“I came to hold the line. They said stay quiet, I spoke up. They said sit down, I stood up. They said play nice and I fought back. This isn’t about playing defence, this is about going on offence for you: for your family, for your freedo

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