Gubernatorial candidate, “Proud transphobe,” and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) doesn’t appear totally ready to take hard questions as she raged at a reporter for asking why she took credit for a law that she voted against during the Biden administration, something that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has already called her out for.

After her town hall event in Myrtle Beach earlier this week, the reporter, who was a woman, asked Mace why she was touting the new I-95/I-26 interchange that is being built in her district when it’s being funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the $1.2 trillion bill passed in 2021 with no Republican support in Congress. Mace herself spoke out against the bill at the time, saying that it is not about infrastructure.

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“Is that an accomplishment then? That’s something you can tout?” the reporter asked after pointing out that Mace voted against the bill.

“Absolutely, I can tout that because I will often argue over how much money is spent, how much money is wasted,” she responded. “And the vast majority of the funding in that bill was completely wasted, particularly an infrastructure bill that was $1.2 trillion.”

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“I think I’m more asking if you think it’s okay for politicians who don’t vote for them to take credit for…” the reporter asked before Mace interrupted.

“You’re very confused!” she said. “And you’re a raging Democrat, a raging leftist with that kind of questioning!”

Then Mace accused the reporter of attacking women as a gender with the question about the highway spending.

“And I would say as a woman, like, you might wanna think about how you view other women and how you treat other women the way that you question them, because women are gonna lead this country off the brink,” she said. “And conservative women, the first female president of this country is going to be a conservative woman, not some liberal like you.”

This is not the first time Mace has been questioned about taking credit for the highway project that she voted against. Last year, she posted to social media about it, saying, “We hate traffic just as much as you do. We helped secure $195 million—the largest grant in South Carolina’s history from the U.S. Department of Transportation—to kick off the Long Point Road Interchange Project!”

Buttigieg, who headed the Department of Transportation at the time, responded in just one word: “Um.” A community note appended to Mace’s X post explained that she voted against the funding that she said she helped secure.

Mace often uses her identity as a woman to argue against transgender rights, even though many transgender people are women and trans people don’t pose a threat to cisgender women.

At that same Myrtle Beach town hall event, Mace asked the president to put her name on a women’s room, perhaps as a way to show her commitment to women.

“But I haven’t told the president this, but my one ask, I just want one ask, because the $15 million is supposed to be used to build his presidential library. I just want my name over a women’s bathroom,” she said, standing in front of a book with the title My Daddy is a Hero. “I just like, just like, give me, just give me a plaque, just give me a plaque with my name on it and say ‘Only women here.’”

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