COLUMBIA — A supporter wanted to ask Nancy Mace about fluoride in the water. The congresswoman answered. But then she drifted into chemtrails.

Days into her burgeoning gubernatorial campaign, the Republican congresswoman from Charleston had just wrapped up her stump speech in a Myrtle Beach café and opened the floor to questions. An unidentified woman stepped up to the microphone to ask the first query of the morning.

"Do you intend to take any action to remove fluoride from our water?" she asked, referencing a push by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to remove the teeth-strengthening supplement from public water supplies.

Mace, television cameras rolling, had a response ready.

"I would support any action to remove fluoride from our water," she said.

Then she added something e

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