Nancy Mace berates airport officers, TSA agents in Charleston: Police

The Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Department on Friday said South Carolina GOP Rep. Nancy Mace was involved in a heated confrontation with airport police and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents at the Charleston International Airport on Thursday.

Mace was supposed to be escorted through the airport by airport police as a member of Congress and candidate for South Carolina governor, but a police report obtained by NBC News said there was a mix-up about what car Mace was arriving in.

The report states officers saw the representative trying to use a crew entrance at a TSA checkpoint and she began cursing at officers and calling them “incompetent." She also allegedly claimed the way she was treated was no way to treat a “f---ing U.S. representative," and that South Carolina GOP Sen. Tim Scott would not have been treated the way she was. 

Mace stated on X that TSA would not let her through the airport and that the entrance she was attempting to use was the same that all elected officials use.

“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.”

Mace's campaign director Cameron Morabito told NBC News that the lawmaker's team has to take her security seriously because of an increase in threats against Mace following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

"Our security procedures are based solely on legitimate safety concerns, and any attempt to politicize this reality is both dangerous and reckless," Morabito said.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.