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MTG rips Nancy Mace for ‘disgusting attack’ against Steve Scalise: ‘He’s a good man’

October 13, 2023 | | Print Article

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene ripped into her Republican colleague Rep. Nancy Mace for smearing House Majority Leader Steve Scalise by using language utilized by Black Lives Matter supporters.

Though Greene publicly supported the House speaker bid by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan after the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy last week, she said she still liked Scalise and took offense to smears likening him to a “white supremacist.” The Georgia firebrand reacted on social media on Thursday to comments made by Mace, firing off a series of tweets calling out the South Carolina congresswoman.

“I’m supporting Jim Jordan for Speaker. I’m not supporting Scalise. I like Steve Scalise, and as I said, I want him to beat cancer, and he should be focused on that,” Greene wrote on X accompanying a video of Mace’s interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper.

“What I do think is an unfair and quite frankly disgusting attack is members of our conference using Democrat talking points. 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. He isn’t a White Supremacist. We all know that. He’s a good man,” she declared.

In the video, Mace – who was one of eight Republicans voting to oust McCarthy –  had relayed that she would not be supporting Scalise due to his involvement at a speaking event over two decades ago.

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“I’ve been very vocal about this in the last couple of days — I personally cannot, in good conscience, vote for someone who attended a white supremacist conference and compared himself to David Duke,” Mace said. “I would be doing an enormous disservice to the voters I represent in South Carolina if I were to do that.”

Scalise, who withdrew his name from the running for the speakership on Thursday, had previously explained that he did not know at the time about the group’s beliefs and had gone on to denounce them.

Greene tore into Mace for even bringing it up, accusing her and other critics of sowing division in the GOP.

“Support who you want. But when we have a member of our conference using Democrat BLM lines to attack a guy for Speaker that more than 100 of our own conference supports, you’re now saying half the conference supports a white supremacist and giving Dems ammunition against half our conference,” Greene wrote on X. “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.”

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Will Hampson, a spokesman for Mace, defended her choice to vote against Scalise.

“Congresswoman Mace voted against the former speaker because he was unwilling to keep his word and ditch business as usual in Washington,” Hampson told the Washington Examiner. “Leader Scalise has also shown no inclination he’ll take on the establishment, and has suggested he’d take us back to the omnibus spending that has led to $33 trillion in debt. Congresswoman Mace is not going to give into the pressures of Washington, and won’t stop fighting until a Speaker emerges who will be a voice for the American people, not Washington business as usual.”

 

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