On Tuesday, the U.S. representative from Dallas got into a heated exchange with Nancy Mace, a congresswoman from South Carolina, during a House Oversight Committee discussion of civil rights and transgender rights. Mace has made headlines in recent months for her hard stance against allowing trans women into the bathrooms in the U.S. Capitol following the election of Sarah McBride from Delaware, who in November became the first out transgender person elected to Congress.
NBC News reported that Crockett was “calling for re-establishing a subcommittee on civil rights and criticizing Mace’s rhetoric about transgender people.”
“I can see that somebody’s campaign coffers really are struggling right now. So [Mace] is gonna keep saying ‘trans, trans, trans, trans’ so that people will feel threatened, and child, listen —” Crockett said.
“I am no child, do not call me a child, I am no child,” Mace interjected, prompting committee chair James Comer, R-Ky., to unsuccessfully call for order.
“If you want to take it outside, we can do that,” Mace said, addressing Crockett.
The kerfuffle rose to a level above other instances of Crockett verbally sparring with others because Mace’s words being could be seen as a physical threat, though Mace denied that's what she intended. You might recall that in 2024, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene told Crockett, "I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading” during a House Oversight Committee meeting.
As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez demanded Greene’s words be stricken from the record, Crockett fired off a reply that launched a million memes by asking, "I’m just curious, just to better understand your ruling. If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?”
But unlike that encounter with Greene last year, Tuesday’s bout with Mace had other representatives wondering if Mace had threatened Crockett with a physical fight. “Take this outside,” is a common phrase used, at least in movies and TV shows, by people who want to start a fight.
NBC News reported that Democratic Rep. Maxwell Frost of Florida first questioned the content of Mace’s remark, but “after some discussion, Comer ruled that Mace’s remark had not been a call to violence, saying she could have been asking Crockett to go outside to 'have a cup of coffee or perhaps a beer.'”
Nancy Mace loves the “uneducated” as Trump calls them. Please explain to me how the same damn Karen that called Cap Police on a child who shook her hand wanted to act like she wanted to fight me?!
— Jasmine Crockett (@JasmineForUS) January 15, 2025
ME… the same person who has represented real killers in court.
She’s an…
Both Mace and Crockett often use their social media accounts to spread their messages, and this of course, warranted posts from both.
On Tuesday night, Mace wrote on X “If you want to come at me for going off - yeah - here I am going the f*ck off on Jasmine Crockett to protect women, particularly rape survivors. I will always hold the line.”
Crockett took to X to address her perspective on her latest viral feud.
“Nancy Mace loves the ‘uneducated’ as Trump calls them,” she wrote in part. “Please explain to me how the same damn Karen that called Cap Police on a child who shook her hand wanted to act like she wanted to fight me?! ME… the same person who has represented real killers in court.”
