Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) is running to be South Carolina's next governor, but her own alleged actions may have just torpedoed her campaign.

The Republican congresswoman stands accused of berating and cursing at police officers and airport employees while waiting for a security escort at the airport in Charleston this week, according to the Daily Caller.

Making matters worse for the gubernatorial candidate is the fact that she has not denied the allegations against her, but rather has disputed some of the reported details and attacked her chief primary opponent for speaking out on the story.

Allegedly cursed at and demeaned the officers

On Thursday, an incident report filed with the Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Department by two of its officers detailed their accounts of what happened when they were tasked with providing Rep. Mace with an escort through the airport to her boarding gate.

The officers were instructed to expect the congresswoman's arrival in a white BMW around 6:30am, were then told that she was running late, and eventually were informed that she'd already arrived and was waiting for them at a special Transportation Security Administration checkpoint typically used for flight crew members, where they found her to be "very irate."

Per the first officer's recollection in the report, Mace "immediately began loudly cursing and making derogatory comments to us and about the department," including disparaging them as being "f--king incompetent."

The second officer relayed that the congresswoman "started cursing and stated this is no way to treat a f--king United States Representative. She also stated [Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)] would not be f--king treated this way, and that she was tired of the police being incompetent."

The first officer noted that Mace berated and cursed them during the entire walk to her boarding gate, that a ticket agent at the gate expressed "disbelief" at her actions after she left, and that a TSA supervisor similarly expressed disapproval of her "unacceptable behavior" that would be formally reported.

The officer concluded, "Any other person in the airport acting and talking the way she did, our department would have been dispatch and we would have addressed the behavior."

No denial of the accusations

As it turned out, while the officers had been waiting for Rep. Mace to arrive in a white BMW, she actually got dropped off in a grey or silver BMW, which she herself confirmed with a surveillance video clip she posted on X, along with the snarky caption, "BREAKING NEWS: Nancy Mace arrives at the airport -- with no security. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

She also pushed back against local media reporting on the incident, which seemed to take issue with her use of the special TSA checkpoint for crew members, insisting that it was also routinely used by elected officials like herself and South Carolina's two senators, Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham.

Notably, Mace did not deny the allegations that she'd verbally abused the two police officers or the other airport employees following the mix-up over her security escort through the public facility.

Police officers and TSA agents deserve to be treated with respect

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, the congresswoman's top opponent in the Republican governor's primary contest, called Rep. Mace out in a statement that decried her reported use of profanity against the escort officers and others, and demanded a public apology.

"Disrespecting the men and women who keep our airports safe is unacceptable," Wilson said. "Law enforcement and TSA agents show up every day to protect the public, and right now they're not even getting paid. They deserve respect and appreciation. Not profanity. Not threats. Not tantrums."

In response, Mace again declined to deny the charges against her and instead accused Wilson of protecting pedophiles from prosecution and of "spying on me at the airport."