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The Marjorie Taylor Greene Problem

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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Daily News, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Dubbed “the QAnon candidate,” Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has her Republican colleagues doing some major handwringing. But does her presence on Capitol Hill actually represent a war within the GOP or more of a polite disagreement?  Guest: Greg Bluestein, political reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Slack.com slash DHQ. When I hear the name Marjorie Taylor Greene, I think of a series of

0:37.3

disturbing superlatives. She's the only known congressperson to believe in the QAnon conspiracy

0:43.0

theory. She's the congresswoman who filed articles of impeachment against Joe Biden, his first

0:48.7

week in office. And a few days back, she got into an argument in the hallway with another

0:54.5

freshman congresswoman, Corey Bush. Afterwards, Bush physically moved her offices at the

1:00.4

Capitol just to avoid representative Greene. But all this, it's not how Greg Bluestein

1:07.8

knows Marjorie Taylor Greene. I mean, you got to remember that, you know, when she first

1:13.1

started running, she was running for a suburban, a moderate suburban congressional district

1:18.5

in Metro Atlanta. And she wanted to meet with me. Greg works in Atlanta. He's a political

1:23.7

reporter at the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the AJC. And so we met at a little coffee shop

1:29.4

not far from where I live. And so I had a pleasant meeting with her and I learned a lot about

1:33.7

her background. And then these videos came out. These videos are the other thing I think

1:39.3

about when I hear Marjorie Taylor Greene's name. There are hours of them. David, why are

1:44.6

you supporting the red flag laws? National outlets have only started surfacing them over

1:49.2

the last couple of weeks. But Greg, he's known about the videos for months. They show Marjorie

1:54.3

Taylor Greene's political life before she was elected to office. In one, she seems to

2:00.1

have traveled to the Capitol simply to follow a Parkland school shooting survivor around

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