Mace beat Moore with 58.3% of the vote to Moore’s 41.7%. The Associated Press called the race at 9:20 p.m., with 83% of the vote counted so far.

While Mace faced heavy competition in previous reelection campaigns, her district was redrawn in 2022 to become more Republican. That boosted her from less than 51% support in 2020 to over 56% in 2022.

Her larger battle in 2022 was from a former President Donald Trump-endorsed opponent, Katie Arrington, in the Republican primary, which she won 53% to Arrington’s 45%. Trump endorsed Mace in 2020 but flipped to Arrington in 2022, calling Mace “disloyal” after she criticized him following the Jan. 6 Capitol storming.

Since then, she’s been friendlier to Trump and regained his endorsement while handily winning her 2024 Republican primary by over 20 points. Mace endorsed Trump in turn.

“We’ve had three-and-a-half years of Joe Biden now, and it’s pretty easy,” she said in June about the endorsement.

“We’ve had two back-to-back presidencies, and we were all safer, we were more prosperous, wages were better, inflation was lower under Donald Trump,” she said.

The Republican acknowledged Moore much more as Election Day grew closer, often accusing him of hate and lying about his endorsements. In an op-ed for the Post and Courier, Mace said, “To Michael B. Moore: Your hateful words will never break me.”

She then flaunted her bipartisan record in Congress.

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“Some in the media would have you believe I’m a raging partisan, that I only care about my side or self-promotion,” she said. “But the truth is I am ranked as the 22nd most bipartisan member of Congress out of 435 members. An enormous feat in today’s divided political world.”

Mace was the first woman to graduate from the Citadel, a military college in South Carolina, in 1999. In 2017, she ran and won a seat in the South Carolina House before she claimed her House seat in 2020, upsetting Democrat Joe Cunningham.