'If that were me up there, I'd be doing the same thing,' said one attendee at the Georgia Republican Convention.
, Greene suggested that she believed in the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory. QAnon adherents believe that Trump is somehow fighting against a Satanic cabal of Democrats and Hollywood elites that sex traffic children. Although Greene has since said she does not believe in QAnon, she readily promotes other conspiracies and misinformation.to the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of some 6 million Jews at the hands of the Nazis during World War II.
"We can look back at a tim in history where people were told to wear a gold star, and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany, and this is exactly the type of abuse that [Speaker of the House]is talking about," Greene said, commenting on mask and vaccine requirements in the House.
After backlash, the congresswoman doubled-down on her remarks, arguing that"any rational Jewish person doesn't like what's happening with overbearing mask mandates."."Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling," he said."The Holocaust is the greatest atrocity committed in history. The fact that this needs to be stated today is deeply troubling.
Greene easily won her 2020 race in Georgia's 14th District. Her Democratic opponent garnered just over 25 percent of the vote while Greene received nearly 75 percent. The congresswoman came out on top with just over 40 percent of the vote in the Republican primary prior to that. She then beat out her GOP opponent in an August runoff, winning with 57 percent support among GOP voters.she's received as a benefit going into the midterms.
"I think that she is providing a huge opportunity in the absence of Trump to be a sticking point and a foil for Democrats in campaigns," Democratic pollster Molly Murphy told The Hill in late May."All she stands for and represents is a walking depiction of where this Republican Party is going. And I think Democrats would be wise to invoke her and where she is trying to take that party.
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