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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene attacked chap House Republican Nancy Mace connected Tuesday, aft Mace condemned inflammatory and anti-Muslim comments made by Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert.
On Twitter, Greene told Mace to “back up off” Boebert, portion accusing Mace of not being blimpish and attacking her arsenic “the trash successful the GOP Conference” and that “she’s pro-abort.”
Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, responded to Greene by correcting the Georgia congresswoman’s spelling mistake and past defending her ain grounds arsenic a conservative.
“And, portion I’m correcting you, I’m a pro-life fiscal blimpish who was attacked by the Left each play (as I often am) arsenic I defied China portion successful Taiwan,” Mace wrote connected Twitter Tuesday, referring to a recent legislature delegation visit to the island. “What I’m not is simply a spiritual bigot (or racist). You mightiness privation to effort that implicit determination successful your small ‘league.'”
Mace again defended herself aboriginal Tuesday, calling Greene a liar for claiming that Mace supported termination rights, erstwhile Mace supports termination lone successful cases of rape and incest — a presumption rooted successful her ain acquisition arsenic a subsister of intersexual assault.
“[Greene] said contiguous that I was pro-abortion, which could not beryllium further from the truth,” Mace said connected Fox Business. “I voted to defund Planned Parenthood, I voted for South Carolina’s fetal heartbeat bill. There are exceptions successful that measure for women who are victims of rape and incest due to the fact that I enactment them successful there.”
In her interrogation with Fox’s Neil Cavuto, Mace said she would not “put up with” Greene’s statement of her record.
“I was raped erstwhile I was 16, Neil,” Mace added. “I dropped retired of school, and it had a devastating interaction connected my life, and astir of America agrees with maine connected the protections for victims of incest and victims of rape, and I, rather frankly, person a zero-tolerance argumentation for radical similar Marjorie Taylor Greene who deliberation 9/11 is simply a hoax and has been lying astir my grounds and others.”
The nationalist spat betwixt the 2 salient Republican freshmen members of the House exemplifies the increasing divides betwixt the party’s mean and fringe wings. It besides shows the trouble House Republican person Kevin McCarthy faces successful uniting his league up of the 2022 midterms, erstwhile Republicans anticipation to triumph backmost the bulk successful the chamber.
Mace connected Sunday had said she perfectly “100 percent” condemns Boebert’s anti-Muslim comments and that she was disappointed by the Colorado Republican’s remarks.
“I person clip aft clip condemned my colleagues connected some sides of the aisle for racist tropes and remarks that I find disgusting, and this is nary antithetic than immoderate others,” she told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, adding, “We person a work to little the temperature, and this does not bash that.”
Video precocious surfaced of Boebert making anti-Muslim comments astir Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, implying that Omar, who is 1 of 2 Muslim women successful Congress, was mistaken for a violent successful a Capitol Hill elevator.
Boebert apologized connected Twitter Friday to “anyone successful the Muslim assemblage I offended” and said she reached retired to Omar’s bureau to talk with the Minnesota congresswoman directly.
The 2 lawmakers had a contentious telephone telephone connected Monday that did small to easiness the tensions betwixt them.
Omar said she hung up connected Boebert aft she “refused to publically admit her hurtful and unsafe comments.” Boebert confirmed that Omar had asked for a nationalist apology, but that she alternatively called connected Omar to contented a nationalist apology of her ain for anterior comments that Boebert accused of being “anti-American” and “anti-Semitic.”
McCarthy has not condemned Boebert’s comments but said successful a connection that helium spoke to Boebert connected Friday successful the aftermath of her comments and encouraged her to conscionable with Omar.
Meanwhile, Greene has a past of incendiary and convulsive rhetoric and was stripped of her House committee assignments successful February.
McCarthy antecedently promised to reinstate Greene connected committees, on with Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona who was censured implicit a video depicting unit against Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden.
Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who slammed Boebert arsenic “TRASH” successful the aftermath of her remarks astir Omar surfacing, has criticized McCarthy for “catering” to the party’s far-right flank and warned that his actions are alienating moderates.
This communicative has been updated with further developments Tuesday.
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