'Good for her': Internet lauds Rep Nancy Mace as she declares boycott of ABC following spat with George Stephanopoulos

WASHINGTON, DC: Republican Representative Nancy Mace has declared that she will not be returning to ABC for future appearances, following a contentious exchange with host George Stephanopoulos on the network's program 'This Week'.

Speaking to NewsNation's Leland Vittert on 'On Balance', the South Carolina Rep declared, "I won’t be going back on ABC anytime soon. I told him as I was walking out, 'Good effing luck getting me back on.'"

She further revealed, "I cursed on my way out. I didn’t do it on air, but I was upset." 

Nancy Mace said she won't let George Stephanopoulos shame her about another potential rape victim

The confrontation between Mace and Stephanopoulos erupted during Sunday, March 10, episode of 'This Week' when the host questioned the Rep's endorsement of former President Donald Trump, despite him facing allegations of sexual misconduct.

Mace, visibly frustrated, accused Stephanopoulos of attempting to shame her and redirecting the conversation to her own experience as a survivor of sexual assault. Throughout the exchange, she criticized him for what she perceived as an attempt to shame her and divert the conversation away from the intended topic.

She noted, "And it’s a shame that you will never feel George, and I’m not going to sit here on your show and be asked a question meant to shame me about another potential rape victim. I’m not going to do that."

Stephanopoulos, on the other hand, maintained that his inquiries were not aimed at shaming Mace and commended her courage for speaking out about her past trauma.

Reflecting on the incident, Mace shared, "So I was all ready to talk about Donald Trump versus Joe Biden and the 2024 race for the general election; the president had just given his State of the Union, you know, all of that I would imagine would have come into a conversation about 2024," to NewsNation's Vittert. 

"But the guy literally led with me being raped. And you can see the pain on my face," noted the South Carolina Rep. 

She emphasized the discomfort she felt when the interview veered into deeply personal territory, asserting that "every woman in this country should be offended by the interview and then by the reaction."

Nancy Mace was 'shocked and dismayed' by the conduct of ABC host George Stephanopoulos

In subsequent remarks on Fox News's 'The Faulker Focus', Mace accused Stephanopoulos of attempting to bully her and emphasized the profound impact of his line of questioning.

"George Stephanopoulos tried to bully me and shame me as a rape survivor over my support for Donald Trump, which is insane to me because he wasn’t found guilty of rape anywhere," told the Republican Rep to host Harris Faulkner.

She added, "But the other thing is that George Stephanopoulos, he doesn’t — he has never felt the shame of rape. He does not know what this journey is like. It’s a journey of healing over a lifetime."

Mace told Faulkner that she was "shocked and dismayed by the line of questioning," and that she had no idea he was going to bring up her testimony during the interview.

"And I said my piece. I thought I did it very — I did it more respectfully than I should have than I probably wanted to. But it was horrifying. And you could see, at the very beginning of that interview, I went, you can see in my facial expression because I was there to talk about 2024," emphasized Mace.

She continued, "I wasn’t brought on to talk about my own rape. I didn’t agree to any of that. And he shares the speech I gave, an impassioned speech five years ago about telling my story for the first time. It’s very difficult for me to watch that speech. It’s painful."

The South Carolina Rep also recalled how things were "very awkward" with Stephanopoulos as she left the studio, saying that the ABC host was "angry."

She subsequently shared, "But you know, just giving me the side eye and being very ugly. Just his whole demeanor was nasty. But that’s what these people do. That’s what the far left does." 

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for ABC News defended Stephanopoulos, telling The Hill, "George did his job by asking meaningful questions that are relevant to our viewers."

Internet reacts to Rep Nancy Mace announcing a boycott of ABC

One said, "Good for her! That interview was disgusting," and another added, "Rep Mace is elegance and grace personified." 

A person remarked, "Sounds like Stephanopoulos showed poor judgment in a line of very personal questioning." "What George did was unforgivable. He’s a disgrace," offered someone else.

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