On the floor of the house, the representative Nancy Mace accuses 4 of sexual abuse, including the former fiance. He denies it.

The representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina, in a speech of almost an hour on the floor of the United States House on Monday, accused her former promising of abusing her physically, registering sexual acts with her and others without her consent and conspiring with commercial partners in acts of violation and inappropriate sexual behavior.

Mace said he was talking because the main prosecutor of his native state did not take measures even after alerting the investigators. It is likely that the same prosecutor is the Mace opponent if he is postulated to Governor of South Carolina in 2026, which has said he is considering.

When he was going to “burned land,” Mace explained how, in November 2023, he says that “he accidentally discovered some of the most heinous crimes against imaginable women.”

“We are talking about rape, non -consensual photos, non -consensual videos of women and minor girls, and the calculated and premeditated exploitation of women and girls in my district,” Mace said.

Mace mentioned four men as involved, including the businessman of the Charleston Patrick Bryant area, who was his fiance until 2023 and campaigned door to door during his re -election campaign of 2022.

The AP could not independently verify Mace’s claims. Bryant told AP: “I categorically deny these accusations. I took this matter seriously and I will cooperate fully with the necessary legal processes to erase my name.”

Mace accused South Carolina Attorney, Alan Wilson, of slowly walking any investigation by Bryant and the other men after having brought the photos and video to the state authorities.

“Did the South Carolina Attorney General had any of these accused predators after receiving clear and dry evidence that include videos, photos and witnesses?” Mace asked, noting that his office had defended a line of advice for anyone with information about accusations.

In a statement after Mace’s speech, Wilson’s office called on his comments on the behavior of the “categorically false” prosecutor and said that the office “has not received any report or request for assistance from any agency to apply the law or Ruse on these matters. “

Mace, a former member of the South Carolina State Chamber, was the first woman to graduate from the Citadel, the State Military University, where her father served as a commander of the cadets. Serving briefly in the House of Representatives, in 2020 it became the first Republican woman chosen to represent South Carolina in Congress, turning the first district after a single mandate with a Democratic representative.

His decision to issue the accusations in a speech on the floor was unusual. In a statement, Mace emphasized that the statements of the members on the floor of the Chamber “are ‘legislative acts’ par excellence’ and, therefore, protected by the” speech or debate “clause, which generally protects legislators of being sued for what they say.

“This is not a story about ex -bitter brides or consensual sex tapes, there are many of them. I don’t care what two spoiled adults agree to do,” Mace said. He mentioned a dozen invoices in which he had worked at home, on issues that stop voyeurism to Prohibit transgender women From the use of women’s bathrooms in the buildings of the Capitol of the United States or the house.

In 2019, Mace spoke publicly for the first time about a sexual assault that, according to her, had occurred more than two decades earlier, addressing legislative colleagues in South Carolina to advocate for adding an exception of rape and incest to a prohibition of the house state of all abortions after the detection of a fetal beat.

On Monday, Mace said he joined the gallery of the Chamber for several women who, according to Bryant and the other men, had been victims of Bryant and the other men. Among the republican legislators who sat down behind Mace during their speech to show their support were Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Anna Paulina Luna de Florida.

“Nancy Mace is our friend and we wanted to support her and give her breath she needed to transmit that message,” said Bobert.

Mace, 47, won a third period of the House of Representatives in November and has said that he is seriously “considering a 2026 race for the governor of South Carolina. If she enters that race, she will probably face Wilson, in her fourth mandate and also in the son of the representative Joe Wilson, in the Republican primaries.

MACE has greatly supported President Trump, working for his 2016 campaign, but collecting criticism against him after January 6, 2021, disturbances in the United States Capitol, criticism that promoted Trump to support a Republican party challenger In his 2022 career. MACE defeated that opponent, won the re -election and was backed by Trump in his 2024 campaign.

Mace rejected additional comments to journalists in the Capitol after speech. When asked how he felt now, he said: “I am at peace.”