Nancy Mace Challenges Gavin Newsom To Debate So She Can 'Emasculate' Him
But if she expected her comments to, as the kids say, 'win the internet,' she was sorely mistaken.
Fox News ignited the feud with a story about how Graham Farrar, the co-founder of Glass House Farms, a California cannabis farm raided by federal immigration authorities, had previously donated $10,000 to Newsom.
Newsom decided to respond to Fox's hand-wringing about Democrats, immigrants and cannabis with receipts — tweeting a photo of Farrar's co-founder, Kyle Kazan, posing with none other than the right-wing Mace.
'Sure is rich for Fox News and the Trump Admin to point to campaign donations to Democrats, when in fact, the CEO is a Trump supporter who donated to my recall and has given to more Republicans,' Newsom posted.
A Los Angeles Times report about the raid noted that Kazan is an ex-cop and supporter of Donald Trump, something Newsom also noted.
Sure is rich for Fox News and the Trump Admin to point to campaign donations to Democrats, when in fact, the CEO is a Trump supporter who donated to my recall and has given to more Republicans. https://t.co/sGvVrAtbaIpic.twitter.com/kVPaGMLX8y
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 11, 2025
Mace, who has in fact supported cannabis legalization in the past, clearly wasn't pleased that the Democratic governor had called her out.
So she responded to Newsom with her own post, which ignored the points of Newsom's tweet but contained some red meat for her base ― including mentions of George Soros and (checks notes) 'm*rderers, r*pists, and p*dophiles' she claimed were 'walking free' under Newsom's watch.
Oh, and she challenged the governor to a debate so she could 'emasculate every one' of his positions.
So you want to talk campaign donations, @GavinNewsom... Why did George Soros drop $1 million to save your skin in the recall?Also, why are m*rderers, r*pists, and p*dophiles walking free under your watch? Hate women and children a little or a lot?Let's settle this on a debate… https://t.co/xFKgKLknGS
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) July 11, 2025
Newsom hadn't responded to Mace's debate offer as of Friday afternoon. Neither Mace's nor Newsom's offices immediately responded to HuffPost's request for comment.
However, Mace's tough talk didn't get a lot of support online, and it's partially due to Jeffrey Epstein, who died in jail while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking young women and girls.
Earlier this week, Trump-appointed officials in the DOJ and FBI claimed that there is no evidence of an Epstein client list, nor evidence that the convicted sex offender and disgraced financier was murdered, dashing a couple of right-wing consipracy theories.
Ever since then, disenchanted MAGA fans have become slightly less convinced that the GOP itself actually cares about stopping 'm*rderers, r*pists, and p*dophiles.'
People on social media were quick to point out that Mace's claims about criminality running rampant under Democrats seemed hypocritical at best.
Pedophiles are walking free under Trump's watch. Yikes pic.twitter.com/SoizMmAxp2
— This You? (@Thiss_Youu) July 11, 2025
You shouldn't be talking. You've been completely silent on Epstein and his political, celebrity and scientist friends.
— Meesh (@MeeshFL) July 11, 2025
I dont care about California, thats their problem. However a sitting US Representative pushing horse shit, when the shit stain in the white house is a convicted felon, adulterer, r*pist, and p*dophile, then blindly supporting him. Throw more stones at your glass house dumbass.
— INFIDEL Fella 🇺🇦 (@ChYph3r) July 11, 2025
I dont care about california right nowI care about why you and your party are covering for Epstein.
— Karthik Ramaswamy (@Kramaramb) July 11, 2025
FactSouth Carolina has the same rape/sexual offense rate as California: 36.4 per 100,000 residentsSouth Carolina has a higher per capita murder rate: 9.4 per 100,000 inhabitants, Cali is 4.9Statistically SC has more crime, California's just larger.🤷♀️
— Johnny Loveless 🤘🏈 🐶 🇺🇸 (@JohnnyLoveless) July 11, 2025
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