'Deranged': Conservative commentators rip Republican over 'gross' and 'performative' fight

A CNN analyst took a shot at Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) who has launched a crusade targeting Rep.-elect Sarah McBride, who became the first transgender woman ever elected to Congress.

Mace has engaged in a public fight with the newly elected Delaware Democrat, who has proposed a binding resolution calling for a ban on transgender women from using women’s restrooms in the Capitol. Mace said she would “double down” and file similar pieces of legislation in Congress, and has even told Fox News in an interview that “a man walking into a locker room” where she was changing was comparable to "assault."

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) implemented her bathroom block, and the saga became the topic of conversation on CNN's "The Source" on Monday night after host Kaitlan Collins played a clip of Mace calling herself "pro-transgender rights" just last year.

Analyst S.E. Cupp acknowledged there are a lot of "policy buckets" that are fair to debate — but, she said, "The problem is Nancy Mace went crazy."

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"It's just deranged to do 326 tweets in 72 hours," said Cupp, drawing a laugh from fellow anti-Trump conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin. "It's deranged. That's not normal. And it's performative. The second one trans woman gets into Congress. And it's completely performative — she'll have her own private bathroom in her Congressional office."

Cupp said Mace's effort aims to be "cruel" and "punitive."

"It's to be on display to be punitive," said Cupp.

While there are good policy conversations to be had about how far trans rights extend, this, said Cupp "is just gross."

Griffin said Mace appears to be trying to "goad" McBride into a fight she doesn't want. McBride campaigned on what Griffin called "pocketbook issues" for Delaware voters — not to be a "spokesperson for any movement."

Griffin continued laying into Mace, accusing her of flip-flopping on many issues, including whether to support Donald Trump and trans issues. Her bathroom fight, said Griffin, is "insulting to the community."

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