Greene pushed back on calls for party unity in her Tuesday meeting with RNC co-chair Michael Whatley. | Francis Chung/POLITICOA top Republican National Committee official asked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene not to move against Speaker Mike Johnson in a face-to-face meeting Tuesday, as top allies of former President Donald Trump seek to head off what they see as a pointless and distracting internal battle.
But Greene pushed back on Whatley, arguing that the party had time to rebound from a leadership switch before the election. And she told him she’d spoken to Trump himself earlier in the day — leaving the impression that the former president had told her much the same as Whatley had. Already her threats have taken a toll on her standing within the House Republican conference, where more and more lawmakers are growing tired of her self-aggrandizing antics,Greene’s latest push, for instance, comes as the GOP tries to take advantage of the campus unrest to make a messaging push on antisemitism.
Others in the Trump-aligned orbit are annoyed, to put it mildly, at Greene’s lack of political discipline. Some noted that she’d kept quiet in recent days until House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other top Democrats made their backing of Johnson public yesterday morning — suggesting Greene got rope-a-doped into sparking another internecine fight.
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