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<p>Well before her fateful vote to remove <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/kevin-mccarthy">Kevin McCarthy</a> from the House speakership, Rep. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/nancy-mace">Nancy Mace</a> (R-SC) arrived on Capitol Hill as a freshman lawmaker with a grandiose vision of her role in government.</p>
<p>In a strategy memo she wrote in 2021, Mace described herself as “THE freshman thought leader on federal issues,” according to a copy obtained by The Daily Beast.</p>
<p>She even gave herself a brand name: “NATIONAL NANCY.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/nancy-maces-staff-guide-shows-her-true-priority-nancy-mace">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html --> Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast
Well before her fateful vote to remove Kevin McCarthy from the House speakership, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) arrived on Capitol Hill as a freshman lawmaker with a grandiose vision of her role in government.
In a strategy memo she wrote in 2021, Mace described herself as “THE freshman thought leader on federal issues,” according to a copy obtained by The Daily Beast.
She even gave herself a brand name: “NATIONAL NANCY.”