Nancy Mace campaign staffer resigns over MAGA loyalty concerns

A marketing campaign adviser to Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., introduced Monday that he had resigned from his place and expressed considerations about Mace’s future alignment throughout the Republican Get together.

“That is about loyalty,” wrote J. Austin McCubbin in an X post.

McCubbin stated Mace positioned himself too near Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. had positioned, driving a wedge between hers and President Donald Trump’s visions for the nation.

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A marketing campaign adviser to Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., introduced Monday that he had resigned from his place. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc by way of Getty Photos)

“After I spoke with Nancy final Wednesday, it grew to become clear that she has totally embraced the Rand Paul PAC. She advised me she is directing a private good friend to fund a seven-figure verify for Rand’s PAC. She has distanced herself and now she is totally embracing the Rand Paul + Thomas Massie wing for cash,” McCubbin claimed.

“Nancy Mace is consciously or unconsciously a proxy for Rand Paul’s 2028 presidential marketing campaign. That was the straw that broke the camel’s again.”

When requested about McCubbin’s resignation, a Mace spokesperson stated his departure was as a consequence of disagreements over compensation.

“Mr. McCubbin hasn’t raised a dime for the marketing campaign, or higher but, by no means even bothered to point out up. When he demanded $10,000 a month for ‘companies’ and was advised no, he ran straight to X. Good luck with that,” the marketing campaign spokesman stated.

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Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., speaks throughout a listening to with the Home Oversight and Accountability Committee on the Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing in Washington, April 11, 2024. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photos)

McCubbin’s resignation comes because the Mace marketing campaign strikes by way of a crowded subject within the South Carolina governor’s race and raises questions in regards to the unity of the Republican Get together.

Massie and Paul characterize a small however more and more vocal faction of the Republican Get together that has clashed with Trump over the nation’s spending, international involvement and the scale of presidency.

However they aren’t the one supply of dissension throughout the get together.

McCubbin’s considerations about Mace’s political place observe the stunning announcement of the resignation of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Inexperienced, R-Ga. – as soon as one in all Trump’s most ardent supporters within the Home of Representatives. It additionally carefully follows a small-scale rebel that prompted consideration of releasing the DOJ’s recordsdata on Jeffrey Epstein in opposition to the president’s needs.

Mace was a type of rebels, becoming a member of three different Republicans in supporting the measure, together with all Democrats within the Home.

Whereas Mace has repeatedly pledged to assist the president’s management, she has clashed with the president over questions of transparency about Epstein and initially criticized Trump’s rhetoric within the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on the U.S. Capitol.

Regardless of a handful of high-profile disagreements previously, Mace has voted with the get together’s majority on most events throughout this session of Congress, bucking the bulk pattern solely 5% of the time.

For McCubbin, it was her proximity to the far more frequent mavericks like Massie and Paul that led to his dismissal.

“She did not need to hear it after I warned her in regards to the political dangers and provided various options,” McCubbin stated of her assist for Paul.

“Anybody who is aware of me is aware of that I personally don’t have anything in opposition to Rand or Nancy. That is about loyalty. My loyalty is with President Trump,” he added.

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Senator Rand Paul, MD, R-Ky., and Consultant Thomas Massie, R-Ky., reply questions in Maysville, Ky., on September 24, 2025. (Tasha Poullard/Lexington Herald-Chief/Tribune Information Service by way of Getty Photos)

In response to McCubbin’s statements, the Mace marketing campaign stated it firmly supported the president.

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“Nancy Mace has been behind President Trump since day ONE. Mr. McCubbin stated it himself: ‘Nancy Mace would be the most pro-Trump and America First governor within the nation,'” the marketing campaign spokesperson advised FOX Digital.

McCubbin, Paul, Massie and the RNC didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s requests for remark.