One of the leading Republican Party election officials in Georgia describes Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) As a Republican Party anchor who will harm her in the future.
“If you have common sense, you know it’s an anchor to the party. It’s weighing us down, ”Gabriel Sterling told Politico.
Greene, who has supported QAnon’s conspiracy theory in the past, has been involved in a number of controversies, including the suggestion that school traits are false-flag operations and that Democratic officials like Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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“Some people say maybe Nancy Pelosi will throw her out … Democrats would never throw her out,” Sterling said. “They want it to be the definition of what a Republican is. They’ll give him every opportunity to talk, listen to himself and look crazy, like the one that came out on Wednesday, the Jewish space laser to light fires. I mean, I don’t know how far point go through the rabbit hole. “
Another conspiracy theory that Greene has given air is that lasers started California wildfires.
A two-thirds vote would be required in the House to withdraw it, which is a high threshold.
A spokesman for the House minority leader Kevin McCarthy
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But it seems unlikely, at this point, that there will be enough Republicans to support his removal to get a two-thirds vote.
Greene has said the attacks on her are partisan and pledged to “never back down” in a recent tweet. He also tweeted about a call he had recently with the first one President Trump
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Sterling became a target of contempt for Trump and his allies after disputing Trump’s false claims about a “call” election in Georgia and warned that Trump was conducting a dangerous defamation campaign against him and others. Republican state officials.
“It has to stop,” Sterling said in December about the threats state employees received after the Trump attacks. “Mr. President, you have not condemned these actions or this language. ”
“These are elections,” he added. “This is the backbone of democracy, and all of you who haven’t said a damn word are complicit. It’s too much.”