GOP Rep.
Nancy Mace compared her party's four-day public battle over the House Speakership to a 'food fight' on Sunday and said her South Carolina constituents are dissatisfied with the prolonged delay.

'I represent a very purple district,' Mace said on CBS News' Face The Nation. 'I have all sides to serve, and there was a lot of frustration with the prolonged and unnecessary food fight we had this week.'

'But you saw democracy on full display.

And I think that's healthy to have that kind of debate. I'm glad that it's over and we can move forward.' 

Mace, who has supported new House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, blasted the 'backroom deals' made between the leader's allies and conservative holdouts to get him over the finish line on the fifteenth vote.

The South Carolina Republican lawmaker also did not hold back against individuals making those deals, nor did she spare other controversial members of her conference.

'Matt Gaetz is a fraud. Every time he voted against Kevin McCarthy last week he sent out a fundraising email,' Mace fumed.

'What you saw last week was a constitutional process diminished by those kinds of political actions.
I don't support that kind of behavior.'

Mace was also asked about freshman GOP Rep. George Santos of New York, who has been facing calls from opponents and constituents to resign after he admitted to lying about his employment, education and Jewish heritage.

She would not say whether she'd join calls for Santos' removal, but Mace did bluntly state that his mistruths were a 'problem.'

'It's very difficult to work with anyone who cannot be trusted, and it's very clear his entire resume in life was- was manufactured until a couple days ago when he finally changed his website,' Mace said.

'It is a problem.

If we say we can't trust the Left when they are telling the truth, how can we trust our own?'

Santos had been a supporter of McCarthy's for all 15 rounds of voting. He announced Saturday that he would also vote 'yes' on the House rules package, which McCarthy made last-minute concessions on last week to secure the final votes needed to win Speaker.

Mace, however, said she was 'on the fence' - not because of the package's contents, but rather because of how the agreements were struck.

Indeed, the congresswoman pointed out that there was not much different in the new package - touted as a victory for the hardline right - and its earlier version, save for the threshold to trigger a vote to remove McCarthy as Speaker being lowered to just one lawmaker. 

'I like the rules package.

It is the most open, fair, and fiscally conservative package we've had in 30 years,' Mace said.

'I support it, but what I don't support is a small number of people trying to get a deal done or deals done for themselves in private, in secret to get a vote or https://www.citrakara-architect.com/ vote present.

I don't support that. That is just what Nancy Pelosi does.'

She pressed the Pelosi comparison multiple times, claiming that the final holdouts like Reps. Gaetz, Eli Crane and Matt Rosendale who held up the votes had acted 'just like' the former Democratic House Speaker.

'What I saw last week was a small faction of the 20, who were acting just like the old Nancy, trying to cut back room deals in private, in secret without anyone knowing what else was going on,' Mace said.

'And when they did the rules package, at the end of the day, there was only one point that was changed.

That was on the motion to vacate. 

'That was the only difference in the package that we're going to be voting on tomorrow that was different from the original package that was proposed. So my question really is today is what back room deals were cut- did they try to cut?'