Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has been making headlines since the election results came in last month for her opposition to trans people’s rights. Now a video of her “baby birding” with another woman has surfaced online.

The video shows Mace pouring a shot of alcohol in her mouth in a kitchen while music played before going to another woman – who was wearing a “TRUMP” t-shirt – and spitting it into her mouth.

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The second woman then spit it into a man’s mouth and, the Daily Mail reports, he spit it into a fourth person’s mouth before he threw up on the floor.

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The video is from 2016, when Mace was campaigning for Donald Trump and shortly after her failed bid for U.S. Senate in 2014, where she lost to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in the primary. A year after this video was shot, she would run successfully for the South Carolina House of Representatives.

Mace didn’t dispute the authenticity of the video when reached for comment.

“This is why good people don’t run for office,” she said.

The Daily Mail reports that the video was seen on social media during Mace’s first run for the state house, when she ran against Democrat Cindy Boatwright, who called Mace immature and “totally unfit” for public office in response to the video.

“She is the worst sort of politician, an opportunist who is solely interested in her fame,” Boatwright said recently as the video resurfaced online. “She wants to be known as National Nancy.”

Mace has taken to calling transgender people slurs on social media lately as part of her crusade against trans women generally and specifically against Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-DE) – the first trans person elected to Congress in history.

Trans people have been visiting and working in Congress for years, but shortly after McBride won her election, Mace introduced a resolution banning trans people from using the appropriate restroom at the Capitol complex, which she said was a response to McBride’s victory. She also introduced a bill banning trans people from using the facilities that correspond to their gender identities on all federal property.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) instituted a trans bathroom ban for the Capitol, but that hasn’t stopped Mace from taking every opportunity she can to attack trans people, including selling transphobic t-shirts, trying to sell transphobic wrapping paper, calling McBride “it” and a “man,” and writing hundreds of posts on social media attacking trans people, some of which include slurs.

Mace has been using transphobia to build her political career since before she was elected to Congress. In her first campaign for Congress, she made up a law that she claimed required “transgender equality in the military,” said that her Democratic opponent was responsible for it, and said that it would result in a Marine Corps base in her district getting shut down. It was all a lie – there was no such law and the Marine base is still in operation today – but it helped her secure her seat in Congress.

In her second run for Congress, she accused her opponent of providing “SEX CHANGE SURGERY. PUBERTY BLOCKERS. GENDER CHANGING HORMONES. FOR CHILDREN?” in an ad, even though her opponent was a doctor who worked at a hospital that didn’t provide gender-affirming care for trans people at all. Her opponent was forced to resign from her job.

Mace has a poor record on LGBTQ+ rights in Congress, getting scores of 15 and 14 out of 100 on HRC’s Congressional Scorecard. She even voted against the Equality Act, which would ban discrimination against LGBTQ+ people at the federal level, and against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act because it would give some protections to transgender inmates.

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