Governor Asa HutchinsonAsa HutchinsonSunday shows a preview: New variants of COVID-19 spread across the USA; Redditors shake Wall Street with Gamestop shares Sarah Huckabee Sanders hails Trump endorsement of Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ candidacy for governor an initial test for Trump allies MORE (R-Ark.) He said on Sunday that he would not vote for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) If he were a constituent in his district, although he did not openly condemn her.
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week” program, Hutchinson spoke with presenter Martha Raddatz about the state of the Republican Party.
Raddatz asked the governor if he thought Greene was fit to serve in Congress, given his controversial comments before and after the recent election. Greene has promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory in the past and was recently seen in a video harassing David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 high school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
“I am not going to answer that question if she is able to serve because she believes in something that everyone does not accept. I reject that, ”said Hutchinson.
“But she is going to run for re-election. I don’t think we should punish people from a disciplinary or partisan point of view, because they think something a little different. “
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Raddatz pressed Hutchinson on the issue, arguing that his promotion of conspiracy theories is more than “a little different”.
“And I reject that,” said Hutchinson, who served in the House of Representatives. “I would not vote for her. I would not vote for her. “
“The second question is, should the House of Representatives make a disciplinary call against it? I’m not going to get in the middle of that,” added Hutchinson. “They will have to make that judgment. But whenever there is a wide diversity of the party rejecting the extreme elements, it is not the mainstream GOP, and that is what we have to go back to.”
Many Democratic lawmakers ask Greene to be censored or to step down. Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-Mo.) Said last week that she would move office after being harassed by Greene on Capitol Hill.