Greene lashes out at Mace’s ‘quite frankly disgusting’ Scalise criticism

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) took aim at Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) for her criticism of Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), calling it a “disgusting attack.”

Mace on Wednesday said she couldn’t vote for Scalise as the next House Speaker because he “attended a white supremacist conference and compared himself to David Duke.”

Greene, like Mace, said she was supporting House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) to replace former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) after he was ousted last week from the role. However, she claimed the South Carolina Republican’s comments about Scalise — who won the nomination for the top GOP spot — were unfair.

“I’m supporting Jim Jordan for Speaker. I’m not supporting Scalise,” Greene reiterated in a lengthy thread on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “I like Steve Scalise, and as I said, I want him to beat cancer, and he should be focused on that.”

“What I do think is an unfair and quite frankly disgusting attack is members of our conference using … Democratic talking points,” she continued, adding that they are “using the same lines of attack that Democrats use against every single Republican, every single election, every single day, in these halls of Congress to attack Steve.”

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Sharing a video clip of Mace, Greene said Scalise “isn’t a White Supremacist. We all know that. He’s a good man.”

Mace was referring to reports that Scalise had compared himself to the Ku Klux Klan grand wizard at an event years ago, reportedly calling himself “David Duke without the baggage.”

In her post, Greene argued that Mace was suggesting that “half the conference supports a white supremacist,” which could give Democrats “ammunition against half our conference.”

“I want a speaker we can all unite behind and one that reflects what our Republican voters want. They want an agenda like President Trump’s,” she wrote. “I want a party that’s not always splintered into five factions. I want a party that’s a single fist so we can knock out the Democrats and save this country.”

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House Republicans appear to still be divided on whom to advance as the next Speaker after eight of them joined forces with all of the Democrats last week in a historic vote to take the gavel away from McCarthy.

The House GOP conference narrowly voted Wednesday to nominate Scalise as Speaker with a slim 113-99 majority, but more than a dozen House Republicans have said that they will back someone other than Scalise on the House floor instead.

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