'Majority' Taylor Greene: Georgia lawmaker RepMTG angles to be GOP kingmaker Analysis from JimAntle:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has gone from pariah to kingmaker, poised to play a major role in the narrowly GOP-controlled House come January, less than two years after being stripped of all her committee assignments.
“I think that to be the best speaker of the House and to please the base, he’s going to give me a lot of power and a lot of leeway,” Greene told the New York Times in October. With just 222 Republican-held House seats in the next Congress, a mirror image of the Democrats’ soon-to-be dethroned razor-thin majority, McCarthy also needs her vote. He can only afford four defections on the House floor. The same will apply to any legislation that cannot attract Democratic votes.
"Perhaps more than any Republican, I am ready for our majority because I believe there is real work to be done to save our country. And the last thing I want is everything blown up on day one simply because a few dislike Kevin McCarthy, who is promoting the very agenda they believe in," she added. Greene came under fire for comments about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot earlier this month. “I want to tell you something: If Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won,” she said. “Not to mention, it would’ve been armed.”
The 48-year-old Georgia lawmaker has also taken shots from colleagues and erstwhile defenders on the populist Right, many of them pointing out her association with QAnon and assorted conspiracy theories.
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