As if Donald Trump isn’t enough?
They have the House Representive from Georgia to contend with….
It ain’t gonna easy and and it ain’t gonna be pretty…..
“I will not allow that to happen,” Greene told the reporters, her tone suggesting potential danger.
“Has McCarthy promised you’ll be seated on committees next Congress?” one asked, a reference to the current Congress having stripped Greene of committee assignments because before her election to the House she had — among other things — questioned that a plane had hit the Pentagon on 9/11 and appeared to endorse social media posts about executing top Democrats….
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The midterms have left Greene in unfamiliar territory. House Republicans are back in power for the first time since she arrived in Washington, but just barely. Many Republicans have blamed her wing of the party — the election-denying, unabashed Trumpists — for dragging down what they had expected to be huge gains for the GOP. And yet the narrowness of the new Republican majority means that McCarthy can’t afford to alienate too many members if he wants to win the gavel when Congress convenes Jan. 3.
That has created an opening for Greene, who spent her first term on Washington’s fringe, to attach herself to McCarthy and make her play for more influence, even as prominent Republicans are trying to nudge the party away from her political North Star, former president Donald Trump….
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Greene rose in GOP politics spouting the conspiracy-minded grievances that defined the Trump era, to the chagrin of some in her party. When she was a candidate, fellow Republicansdescribed her past comments about Black voters, Muslims and Democratic donor George Soros as “disgusting,” “appalling” and “bigoted.” Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) once called Greene “cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs,” referencing a 2017 video in which she reportedly said that Trump’s presidency was “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to take downa “global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles.” Her colleagues also chided her after she spoke at a conference organized by Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist whose recent dinner with Trump and Ye — the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who has a history of making antisemitic remarks — exposed the former president to an outpouring of criticism. (On Tuesday, after a journalist tweeted that there was “no public evidence” of her denouncing Fuentes, Greene responded: “Of course I denounce Nick Fuentes and his racists antisemitic ideology. I can’t comprehend why the media is obsessed with him.”)…
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Her fans aren’t asking her to change, and the walls outside her Capitol Hill office are decorated with letters of support — a shrine to how much Greene believes she is doing right (“We need more people like you in our government,” one person wrote)….
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“Doubling down on QAnon and Trumpism is a recipe for disaster,” said the member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution from party leaders. “We had the weakest president since Jimmy Carter and the highest inflation rate in 40 years, and we couldn’t get an overwhelming majority to deliver on Republican promises. It doesn’t bode well for ’24 or retaining the seats we barely won.”….
image….Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) hugs Greene after a news conference in April. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)