Republican Women Are Forming Their Own ‘Squad.’ SC’s Nancy Mace Is Part of It.

Four Republican women, including South Carolina congressional candidate Nancy Mace, are calling themselves the “Conservative Squad” as part of a new effort to reclaim GOP control of the U.S. House and win in 2020.

The group introduced itself to the nation during a live studio interview on “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning.

“This is not your grandfather’s GOP anymore,” Mace said.

The members of the newly formed group are all 2020 congressional candidates. And, in contrast to the four minority Democratic congresswomen known as “the Squad,” the GOP alternative is all white.

The Conservative Squad includes Jessica Taylor, who is running for Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District; Michelle Fischbauch, in Minnesota’s 7th Congressional District; Beth Van Duyne, in Texas’ 24th Congressional District; and Mace, who is running in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District.

“This is about our future. This is the American dream. You see the Democrats, and they’ve taken a sharp left turn under the influence of the Socialist squad. You look at us and, and this is socialism versus American values and freedom and job creation,” Mace said in explaining why she joined.

“And we all understand up here today that people flourish under freedom, and 2020 next year is pivotal for our country,” Mace continued.

The ultimate goal of the group is to take aim at the four progressive Democrats known as “the Squad”: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.

The group has become go-to villains in Republican attacks against Democrats running for Congress.

The newly formed “Conservative Squad” comes after Taylor, an Alabama businesswoman, called for the creation of a “Conservative Squad” in her campaign announcement video that ultimately went viral.

“I’m just honored that they want to join in this fight, and that’s exactly what it is. We are losing the younger generations of this country and I’m so grateful that they’re willing to join up and help this squad,” Taylor said Thursday morning.

In her viral campaign video for a U.S. House seat, Taylor said she was “sick of arrogant Socialists like AOC (Ocasio-Cortez), who’ve never even run a lemonade stand, trying to tell us how to live in Alabama and that more government is the answer.”

The group plans to raise money together for their respective congressional campaigns, and will split it evenly four ways. In addition to that, a percentage of the money they raise will also go to the nominee funds for the Republicans who will ultimately take on each Democratic member of the squad in their 2020 general elections.

The female-powered push also comes as Republicans are trying to make the upcoming 2020 elections a referendum on Socialism rather than a referendum on incumbent President Donald Trump.

“I’m worried about the direction our country is headed because of Socialists like the Squad. We need a new Squad based on solutions,” Mace said in a statement released regarding the GOP initiative.

Mace is one of five Republicans currently running to unseat Joe Cunningham, a freshman Democrat seeking reelection in South Carolina’s coastal 1st District that voted for Trump in 2016.