WASHINGTON (AP) Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell denounced newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, calling the far-right Georgia Republican’s embrace of conspiracy theories and “loony lies” a
Thus far, however, GOP leaders in the House have been reluctant to criticize Trump supporters, like Greene, out of concern that they could alienate the former president s most ardent voters, underscoring a bitter divide over how the out-of-power party should navigate the two years until the next congressional elections.
Greene responded to McConnell late Monday with a broadside on Twitter, suggesting that the real cancer for the Republican Party is weak Republicans who only know how to lose gracefully. This is why we are losing our country, she wrote.
The real cancer for the Republican Party is weak Republicans who only know how to lose gracefully.
Indiana Mayors Among Hundreds to Sign Letter in Support of Biden’s COVID-19 Relief Plan
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Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett, Carmel Mayor Jim Brainard, Anderson Mayor Thomas Broderick, Jr., Gary Mayor Jerome Prince, New Albany Mayor Jeff Gahan, and Fort Wayne Mayor Thomas Henry are among the nine pages of signatures in the letter.
It begins by addressing Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and reads in part “Biden’s American rescue plan contains such assistance as part of an aggressive strategy to contain the virus, increase access to life-saving vaccines and create a foundation for sustainable and inclusive recovery.”
Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene a ‘cancer’ on the GOP, Mitch McConnell says
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
Posted Feb 02, 2021
US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, holds up a Stop the Steal mask while speaking with fellow first-term Republican members of Congress on the steps of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 4, 2021. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images
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Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell denounced newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, calling the far-right Georgia Republican’s embrace of conspiracy theories and “loony lies” a “cancer for the Republican Party.”
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WASHINGTON Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell denounced newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, calling the far-right Georgia Republican’s embrace of conspiracy theories and “loony lies” a “cancer for the Republican Party.”
“Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality,” said McConnell, R-Ky., referring to a handful of conspiracy theories that Greene has publicized in the past. “This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party.”