WATCH: Rep. Nancy Mace speaks at 2024 Republican National Convention

Politics

The South Carolina Republican took the stage at the RNC on Tuesday night, talking about her origins as a high school dropout and Waffle House waitress before becoming the first woman to graduate from The Citadel military college.

Watch Mace's remarks in the player above.

She also referenced the assassination attempt on Trump's life, saying that, "just as Trump quickly rose to his feet" after the shooting, "America will soon be back on hers" with him back in the White House.

Mace worked for Trump's 2016 campaign and won South Carolina's 1st Congressional District in 2020. But after she criticized Trump following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, the former president supported a Republican who primaried her in 2022.

Mace won that contest, has gotten back in Trump's good graces and now has his support as she seeks a third term.

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