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'Were You Drunk?' Mehdi Calls Out Nancy Mace

6 claims checked · Published September 2026 · Checked September 2026

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  1. Claim 1
    Accurate95% confidence▶ 0:23
    “It's a fake AI video on the day he endorsed your opponent.”

    Nancy Mace posted a fake AI-generated video or image of herself with Donald Trump on the day Trump endorsed her opponent.

    Trump endorsed South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette over Nancy Mace in the 2026 Republican gubernatorial primary, and Mace posted AI-generated media depicting herself with Trump. The format is described inconsistently as an image, image-video, or video.

    The transcript calls it a video; reliable reports variously describe it as an AI-generated image or image-video.

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  2. Claim 2
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 0:27
    “Trump endorsed your opponent.”

    Donald Trump endorsed Nancy Mace's opponent in the South Carolina gubernatorial primary.

    Trump endorsed South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette, who was running against Mace in the Republican primary for governor.

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  3. Claim 3
    Misleading50% confidence▶ 0:29
    “You lied and said he hadn't endorsed your opponent.”

    Nancy Mace falsely said that Pamela Evette was not endorsed by Donald Trump.

    Mace posted, “Pamela Evette is NOT ENDORSED by DONALD TRUMP,” on May 29, the same day Trump publicly endorsed Evette. The falsity of the statement is documented, but the transcript's assertion about her intent is not independently established by these sources.

    Omits: The record establishes that Mace made the false statement, but it does not by itself establish that she knowingly made it with intent to deceive, which is required by the word “lied.”

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.

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  4. Claim 4
    Unverifiable78% confidence▶ 1:03
    “Your former staffers told NEW YORK MAGAZINE YOU DRINK ALL DAY LONG.”

    Former Nancy Mace staffers told New York Magazine that she drank all day long.

    Available reporting confirms that former staffers told New York Magazine about alleged alcohol misuse and late-night liquor runs, but the accessible sources do not verify the transcript's exact statement that they said she drank “all day long.”

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  5. Claim 5
    Accurate94% confidence▶ 1:09
    “BUT YOUR staffers Your staffers say you sent them to buy you alcohol at 2:00 in the morning.”

    Former Nancy Mace staffers said that staff were sent to obtain alcohol for her at about 2 a.m.

    A report summarizing the New York Magazine investigation quotes a former staffer saying that a scheduler received calls at 2 a.m. to bring Mace bottles of tequila. This supports the claim as an allegation attributed to staffers, not as an independently established fact that the events occurred.

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  6. Claim 6
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 1:29
    “Your former communications director said you asked to go get drinks for you in a congressional liquor store while you're doing town halls.”

    Nancy Mace's former communications director, Natalie Johnson, said that Mace had staff obtain drinks for her during town halls.

    Sources establish that Natalie Johnson was Mace's former communications director and that former staffers made alcohol-related allegations, but I could not find a reliable source confirming this specific attribution or the town-hall detail.

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