{"id":13420,"date":"2025-09-18T17:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/nancy-mace-and-cory-mills-clash-over-failed-censure-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T17:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:33:07","slug":"nancy-mace-and-cory-mills-clash-over-failed-censure-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/nancy-mace-and-cory-mills-clash-over-failed-censure-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Mace and Cory Mills clash over failed censure vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GOP Reps. Nancy Mace and Cory Mills are locked in an escalating personal clash over Mace\u2019s failed effort to censure Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar for her response to the killing of activist Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n

Mills was one of four Republicans to join all Democrats and kill Mace\u2019s censure measure<\/a>, which fell just one vote short of passing Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Floridian cited \u201cFirst Amendment\u201d issues for his vote, prompting Mace (R-S.C.) to then accuse Mills and the other Republicans of stifling \u201cfree speech\u201d<\/a> by opposing her effort. In an exchange with Mills on X, she also claimed the Florida Republican \u201cthreatened\u201d her by text message Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

Mills denied threatening Mace in a brief interview Thursday. He said he reminded her about her previous position on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, saying: \u201cWhat would have happened if you shared the video of you condemning President Trump over J6 for free speech?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so, if reminding someone of their own remarks is a threat, well, then that means everyone threatens each other every day to remind someone, \u2018Hey, you voted for this, and you did this and you voted for this,\u2019\u201d Mills said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is typical, I’m sorry, but like, I respect Nancy, I like Nancy, I’ve always supported Nancy,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut she’s upset that she didn’t get one thing passed because she has some back-and-forth with Ilhan that has nothing to do with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mills did personally benefit from his vote to table the Omar censure: Democrats pulled back on a retaliatory effort to censure Mills over ethics and domestic abuse allegations that he has denied.<\/p>\n

Mills said he would \u201cbe fine\u201d with Democrats pushing ahead on their effort to censure him.<\/p>\n

Mace said after the Wednesday vote that the GOP opposition was \u201creally gross\u201d and \u201cvery disappointing.\u201d A reporter also overheard<\/a> her telling a colleague that she had sent the four Republicans\u2019 names to President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOP Reps. Nancy Mace and Cory Mills are locked in an escalating personal clash over Mace\u2019s failed effort to censure Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar for her response to the killing of activist Charlie Kirk. Mills was one of four Republicans to join all Democrats and kill Mace\u2019s censure measure, which fell just one vote short […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}