House Republicans are raising concerns that a controversial candidate’s primary win in Georgia could hurt the party in other races, with some saying GOP leaders …
House Republicans are raising concerns that a controversial candidate’s primary win in Georgia could hurt the party in other races, with some saying GOP leaders should have done more to defeat Marjorie Taylor Greene. Greene handily won a runoff Tuesday against neurosurgeon John Cowan, taking 60 percent of the vote, and is now poised to succeed outgoing Rep. Tom Graves (R) in the GOP-leaning district. She has a history of offensive remarks about Blacks, Jews, and Muslims, including a statement that if she were Black, she’d be “proud” to see a Confederate monument because it would show the progress since the Civil War. Greene has compared Democratic donor George Soros to a Nazi, asserted that African Americans “are held slaves to the Democratic Party,” likened the 2018 midterms that flipped the House to Democratic control as being like an “Islamic invasion of our government,” and most recently, fundraised over her remarks calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) a “bitch” who should be kicked out of Congress. She has also embraced the QAnon conspiracy theory involving a global cabal of government officials and celebrities controlling the government and other institutions and running a child sex-trafficking ring. “Q is a patriot,” Green said in a video posted to YouTube, referring to the purported anonymous government official who posts information about the supposed conspiracy. To many House Republicans, Greene is a liability whose remarks will be used against other GOP candidates, according to multiple GOP House lawmakers and aides. “It is a really ugly outcome — an embarrassment for our party. And [it is] unfortunate our party leadership did not address that issue,” one GOP lawmaker told The Hill. GOP leaders denounced Greene’s public remark earlier this year, with a spokesman for Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.
