A top official of the GOP election in Georgia describes rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) As an anchor on the GOP that will hurt it going forward.
‘If you have a common sense, you know she’s an anchor at the party. She weighs us, ‘Gabriel Sterling told Politico.
Greene, who has supported QAnon conspiracy theory in the past, has been embroiled in a number of controversies, including suggesting that school shootings are false flags and that democratic officials such as Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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“Some people say maybe Nancy Pelosi will throw her out … The Democrats will never throw her out,” Sterling said. “They want her to be the definition of what a Republican is. They will give her every opportunity to speak and be heard and look crazy – as came out on Wednesday, the Jewish space laser to fire. I mean, I do not know how far into the rabbit hole you go. ”
Another conspiracy theory that Greene aired is that lasers started the wildfires in California.
A two-thirds vote in the House is required to remove her, which is a high threshold.
A House Minority Leader spokesman Kevin McCarthy
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But it seems unlikely at this point that enough Republicans will support her dismissal from office to reach a two-thirds vote.
Greene said the attacks on her were biased and promised in a recent tweet to “never return”. She also tweeted about a phone call she recently had with former President Trump
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Sterling has become a target for Trump and his allies after disputing Trump’s false allegations of a ‘fraudulent’ election in Georgia and warning that Trump is waging a dangerous smear campaign against him and other Republican officials.
“It must stop,” Sterling said in December of threats received by government officials following Trump’s attacks. “Mr. President, you have not condemned this action or this language.”
“These are elections,” he added. ‘This is the backbone of democracy, and everyone who has not said a damn word is complicit in it. That’s too much. “