DAILY BS BULLETIN
- Nancy Mace called every Muslim public official a national-security threat.
- Confronted on CNN, she denied condemning all Muslims but continued attacking Islam broadly.
- Democrats demanded Republican leaders denounce her remarks.
Rep. Nancy Mace doubled down Monday after CNN’s Omar Jimenez challenged her declaration that every Muslim holding public office is a “trojan horse” and a threat to the United States.
“Are you saying that anyone who is Muslim is a threat to this country?” Jimenez asked.
“That’s not what I said,” Mace answered.
🚨 JUST IN: Rep. Nancy Mace GOES OFF on the Islamic invasion to this CNN host’s face, saying that if Islamism spreads nationwide, “our granddaughters will be wearing BURKAS to school!”
“As a woman, that’s SCARY to me! It’s being forced on women…a 6-year-old girl doesn’t get to… pic.twitter.com/RnivwJQ4fS
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 9, 2026
The South Carolina Republican attempted to narrow her argument to public officials such as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, both of whom have aggressively progressive records worthy of hard political scrutiny.
But Mace repeatedly broadened the argument back to Islam itself, warning that American granddaughters could someday wear burkas to school and complaining that she did not want to hear Muslim calls to prayer in American cities.
Jimenez reminded her that the First Amendment protects religious expression and that Article VI prohibits religious tests for public office.
After the interview, Mace showed no interest in retreating.
“You cannot pledge allegiance to the U.S. Constitution and Sharia Law at the same time,” she wrote. “Islam has no place in Western society.”
That came after Mace had already declared Friday that “every single Muslim holding public office in America” threatens both national security and the republic.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal called the language “absolutely disgusting and dangerous” and demanded that Republicans denounce it. California state Sen. Scott Wiener labeled Mace a “vile person” who was advocating second-class citizenship for Muslims.
Mace responded by saying Islam “must be removed from civil society” and later added: “If not wanting to be blown up, stabbed, or rammed by a car by a radical Islamist” makes her Islamophobic, “then so be it.”
She’s right. I don’t want to get stabbed or blown up by a suicide bomber – nor do I want to hear the call to prayer five times a day in the United States of America.
Total Islamaphobe here. https://t.co/tzQZ7VlyoU
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) August 9, 2026
Republican criticism of similar rhetoric has been limited but not nonexistent. Rep. Don Bacon has previously noted that the Constitution forbids religious tests, while Rep. Nicole Malliotakis said sweeping statements about Muslim Americans are “offensive and completely inappropriate.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson has argued that imposing Sharia law would conflict with the Constitution. That is a serious constitutional point—but it is not the same as claiming every Muslim who wins an election is secretly carrying Sharia law into city hall inside a trench coat.
DBS WIRE SOURCES
- Original report: Democrats hammer Mace over “trojan horse” declaration — Fox News
- CNN’s Omar Jimenez confronts Mace over her sweeping claims — The Daily Beast
- Republican Don Bacon invokes the Constitution’s ban on religious tests — Axios
- Mike Johnson calls the imposition of Sharia law a constitutional threat — Fox News
- Republican leaders face pressure over increasingly broad anti-Muslim rhetoric — KPBS/AP
