"Moderate" Nancy Mace voted to axe McCarthy

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4. My guess is she knew her vote wouldn't affect the vote one way or the other

so used her vote instead to better position herself with her base constituency. She's milquetoast; she complained about trump's actions on Jan 6, but did not vote to impeach him, she publicly asserts to support gay marriage, but voted in favor of the Respect for Marriage Act, she wrote in opposition to support of Ukraine, but voted for the Supplemental Appropriations Act.

My guess is she's another finger-in-the-wind type of legislator.