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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitch McConnell, the top Senate Republican, said on Monday that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s embrace of conspiracy theories was a “cancer” on their party, as House Democrats moved to strip her of committee assignments.
Incendiary comments Greene made including denying that school shootings took place and expressing support for violence have emerged in recent days.
Democratic Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz introduced a resolution to remove the newly elected Republican representative from Georgia from her seats on the education and budget committees of the House of Representatives.
“Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country,” McConnell, the Senate minority leader, said in a statement to reporters.
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In fact, it pains me to see the cancerous gang of grifters, white supremacists and conspiracy-theory mad hatters who are killing the party of conservative principles.
Healing the GOP can only begin when someone begins confronting the radical fraud, I told Wallace.
The fraud inside the party begins with the 72 percent of Republicans, according to a Monmouth poll last week, who buy the big lie that Donald Trump
But that’s not all.
A YouGov poll taken earlier this month found that 30 percent of self-described Republicans have a favorable view of QAnon the conspiracy theory that the world is secretly controlled by a cabal of satanic pedophiles.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mitch McConnell, the top Senate Republican, said on Monday that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s embrace of conspiracy theories was a “cancer” on their party, as House Democrats moved to strip her of committee assignments.
Incendiary comments Greene made including denying that school shootings took place and expressing support for violence have emerged in recent days.
Democratic Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz introduced a resolution to remove the newly elected Republican representative from Georgia from her seats on the education and budget committees of the House of Representatives.
“Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country,” McConnell, the Senate minority leader, said in a statement to reporters.