Police report: Nancy Mace cursed and berated officers in airport altercation

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace was involved in a heated confrontation with airport police and TSA agents at the Charleston International Airport on Thursday morning, according to an incident report from the Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Department that was obtained by NBC News

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace was involved in a heated confrontation with airport police and TSA agents at the Charleston International Airport on Thursday morning, according to an incident report from the Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Department that was obtained by NBC News.

The airport police had arranged for Mace, who is also a GOP candidate in the South Carolina governor’s race, to be escorted to her flight upon her arrival, but there was a mix-up about which vehicle she was arriving in, the report said. Officers then found Mace trying to use an entrance typically used for crew personnel at a TSA security check point.

Multiple officers who made statements for the report said Mace began cursing at them and calling the department “incompetent,” saying this is no way to treat a “f---ing U.S. representative.” Mace also said the police would have never treated South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott this way, according to the report.

On X, the congresswoman said: “TSA wouldn’t let me through” and dismissed a post from the independent site FITSNews about the incident being under investigation as a “silly rumor” and “false.”

In a separate post on X, she said all lawmakers use those crew entrances. “All federally elected officials including Senators Scott and Graham use the same Crew Member Access Point at airports,” she wrote. “That’s the federal security protocol.”