Why Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Trying to Oust House Speaker Mike Johnson?
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The New Yorker staff writer David Kirkpatrick joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss Marjorie Taylor Greene’s call to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson from office, just seven months after her colleagues forced out Kevin McCarthy. Kirkpatrick explains why Greene’s likely doomed effort is potentially lucrative for her, and walks through the ways in which her strategy is influenced by her predecessors.
This week’s reading:
- How Marjorie Taylor Greene Raises Money by Attacking Other Republicans, by David Kirkpatrick
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| 0:47.4 | We have to shake this country up. |
| 0:49.3 | This country has to come back. |
| 0:50.7 | And it's never going to come back unless we have people like Marjorie Taylor |
| 0:54.9 | Green. Please come up. Come. Come on up, Marjorie. |
| 1:01.5 | Thank you, Mr. President. |
| 1:03.2 | Ever since her election to Congress in 2020, Marjorie Taylor Green has been one of the more |
| 1:08.0 | extreme members of the Republican Party. |
| 1:10.3 | Representative Marjorie Taylor Green is under fire for her social media activity. |
| 1:15.0 | Now, she's already known for supporting extremist conspiracy theories, and CNN is now reporting |
| 1:20.7 | on her posts and others she's liked that seem to call for violence against Democrats. |
| 1:26.2 | Even Green's fellow Republicans have had a hard time working with her. |
| 1:29.7 | The House Freedom Caucus abandoned her last summer, |
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