Days after filming a video outside Trump Tower in which she touted her support for a wide-range of former President Donald Trump’s policies, in what appeared to be a desperate effort to win back his support, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) now says she’s prepared to defeat a primary challenger he has endorsed.

“I’m gonna win without him,” Mace told South Carolina news outlet The State, in a feature which ran Sunday.

Mace, who is facing Trump-endorsed opponent Katie Arrington, denied that her video at Trump Tower was part of a last-ditch effort to try to get back in the former president’s good graces.

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“If you call it groveling, I would say you didn’t watch the video,” Mace said. “I think it’s important to know what I said, but also what I didn’t say — present tense versus past tense.”

In that video, which took Mace six takes to get exactly right, she said she supports Trump’s policies.

Present tense.

Mace also said she supported Trump.

Past tense

Mace was a vocal critic of Trump’s following the attack on the Capitol. Though she did not vote to impeach, she did tell CNN that Trump’s “entire legacy was wiped out” as a result of the attack. But she then dramatically toned down her criticism of Trump. Nonetheless, Trump threw his support to Mace’s primary opponent.

But The State reports that polling of South Carolina’s first Congressional district shows Mace with a 46-31 lead over Arrington in a head-to-head matchup. Trump’s endorsement did help Arrington — as the margin without him was 54-25 in Mace’s favor. But the incumbent currently stands as the heavy favorite to win her party’s nomination.

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