- Nancy Mace, a congresswoman, has pledged to ban "chemtrails" if elected as South Carolina's next governor.
- She made the remark unprompted during a town hall event on 6 August, after an audience question about fluoride in drinking water.
- "Chemtrails" refer to a long-running conspiracy theory that aircraft condensation trails are actually biological agents dispersed by the government.
- Mace announced her candidacy for governor earlier in the week.
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