'Bad news for Nancy Mace': Trump thumbs nose at MAGA firebrand in governor's race

President Donald Trump made an endorsement in the crowded contest for governor of South Carolina — in a potentially big blow to multiple other candidates trying to run as MAGA disciples.

"Highly Respected and very popular Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, Pam Evette, is an America First Patriot who has been with me from the very beginning," wrote Trump on his Truth Social platform Friday. "She never wavered, never let me down, and was the only South Carolina Gubernatorial Candidate to Endorse me as soon as I launched my 2024 Presidential Campaign. She crisscrossed South Carolina and other States for me, and I said, at the time, that this is truly something which I cannot forget!"

The president then ran off a list of bog-standard MAGA policies he trusts Evette to implement, and concluded that she will be a "terrific Governor" who "WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!"

This, wrote NOTUS reporter Reese Gorman on X, is "Bad news for Reps. Nancy Mace and Ralph Norman," both of whom have been running intense campaigns to try to win the president's favor.

Mace, in particular, has previously had a poor relationship with Trump in the past, with the president even endorsing a primary opponent against her in 2022. However, she has been running her current campaign as a MAGA warrior, introducing a wide array of legislation intended to grab the attention of MAGA voters, like a ban on naturalized citizens from holding federal office.

Several months ago, Mace clashed with Evette and accused her of falsely implying a Trump endorsement in her campaign material, despite the fact that Mace herself had used images of Trump in her own campaign material.