A senior Republican Republican election official in Georgia is describing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) As a Republican Party anchor who will hurt him in the future.
“If you have common sense, you know that she is an anchor of the party. She’s putting pressure on us, ”Gabriel Sterling told Politico.
Greene, who has supported the QAnon conspiracy theory in the past, has been involved in a number of controversies, including the suggestion that school shootings are false flag operations and that Democratic office-holders like the president Nancy Pelosi
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“Some people are saying that maybe Nancy Pelosi will expel her … Democrats would never expel her,” said Sterling. “They want her to be the definition of what a Republican is. They will give her every opportunity to speak, be heard and look crazy – like the one that came out on Wednesday, the Jewish space laser to start fires. I mean, I don’t know how far you go in the rabbit hole. “
Another conspiracy theory that Greene suggested is that lasers started forest fires in California.
A two-thirds vote in the House would be needed to remove it, which is a high limit.
A spokesman for the domestic minority leader Kevin McCarthy
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But it seems unlikely, at this point, that enough Republicans will support his removal from office to reach a two-thirds vote.
Greene said the attacks on her are partisan and promised to “never give up” in a recent tweet. She also tweeted about a connection she recently had with the former President Trump
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Sterling became a target of contempt for Trump and his allies after he contested Trump’s false claims of a “rigged” election in Georgia and warned that Trump was engaging in a dangerous smear campaign against him and other Republican state officials.
“It has to stop,” Sterling said in December of the threats that public officials received after Trump’s attacks. “Sir. President, you have not condemned these actions or this language.”
“This is elections,” he added. “This is the backbone of democracy, and all of you who haven’t said a damn word are complicit in this. Is very.”