Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., claimed Wednesday that the women publicly supporting Lindsay Clancy during her murder trial would abandon her if she were Black, accusing the political left of being “inherently racist.”
Mace made the comments while speaking with TMZ DC journalist Jacob Wasserman about the hundreds of Clancy supporters who have gathered outside the Plymouth courthouse in Massachusetts. Many of the demonstrators have worn pink shirts.
Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, has admitted to killing her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — in January 2023. She has pleaded not guilty.
Her defense maintains that she should not be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis when the killings occurred.
Asked about the large group of women supporting Clancy, Mace argued that the reaction would be dramatically different if the defendant were Black.
“Oh, nobody would be supporting her if she were Black,” Mace said.
When Wasserman pressed the South Carolina Republican to explain her assertion, she doubled down.
“Liberal white women aren’t going to support a Black woman who murdered her kids,” Mace said.
Asked why she believed those women would refuse to support a Black defendant under identical circumstances, Mace blamed what she characterized as racism on the left.
“I think that the left is inherently racist,” she said. “That’s what I think.”
Clancy’s case has received intense public attention, including significant support outside the courthouse and across social media.
Hundreds of women have appeared at the courthouse wearing pink. Organizers have framed the demonstrations around postpartum illness, mental health and what Clancy’s attorneys have described as failures surrounding her psychiatric treatment.
Mace rejected that explanation, arguing that mental illness should not be used to excuse the deaths of Clancy’s children.
“This culture of blaming the government, blaming the hospital system, blaming anybody but yourself for your decisions, we can, I think, have a discussion about mental health, but that doesn’t excuse murder,” Mace said. “I mean, she murdered her children.”
The congresswoman continued by arguing that a person who kills someone “in cold blood” could be considered mentally ill, but that such a finding should not automatically result in the person being released.
“That doesn’t mean everybody who’s insane who murders should walk free,” Mace said.
Mace then suggested that Clancy could be freed because of the influence of what she called the “pink mob,” describing the public response as a troubling reflection of the culture.
“I think it says a lot about our culture, and it’s a sad statement on where we are,” she said.
Mace also referenced an unidentified case involving a Black woman in New York, presenting it as evidence of an alleged racial double standard.
“So where was the liberal white woman mob for her?” Mace asked. “They weren’t anywhere near her.”
Meanwhile, the 12-member jury considering Clancy’s fate remains deadlocked after five days of deliberations.
Jurors could return verdicts of first-degree murder, second-degree murder or manslaughter. They could also find Clancy not guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity.
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