© Joe Raedle / Getty Images Representative Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) speaks at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit on July 23, 2022 at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida. Some Republican pundits believe that Greene will have a big impact on Kevin McCarthy's decisions if he is appointed speaker of the House of Representatives.Republicans believe that if House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy wins the nomination for Speaker of the House in January, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green will influence his actions.
After last month's midterm elections, the Republicans narrowly won the House of Representatives and are moving forward with a new speaker to replace longtime House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat. McCarthy, D-Calif., is in the lead, while several other names have emerged as possible candidates, including Rep. Liz Cheney, D-Wyom, who has lost her re-election bid and will sit until the 2018 election. , year.
Green, a Georgia Republican who is backed by former President Donald Trump and who will even become his running mate in 2024, fully backed McCarthy. Some Republicans say it has to do with promises McCarthy made to Green if he won the nomination.
Former GOP chairman Michael Steele said Friday during MSNBC's "Morning Joe" panel that despite Republicans in the House of Representatives moving to more moderate persuasion, prominent Republicans like Trump, political commentator and white nationalist Nick Fuentes and others still have a lot of influence in the party. . when it comes to decisions. Steele added that he expects Green to influence McCarthy on decisions important to far-right Republicans like Trump.
"Marjorie Taylor Green will be the most powerful representative in the House of Representatives because she will be able to control what Kevin says about what's important to this little image," Steele said.
Last month, Greene appeared on Steve Bannon's podcast, where he called on the Republican Party to give McCarthy its full support in preventing RINO, short for nominal Republicans, from getting a job. However, some Republicans doubt that GOP lawmakers will support McCarthy, who has promised him seats on the committee if he runs.
Last February, Greene was removed from his commission after publicly endorsing conspiracy theories such as questioning the legality of school shootings.
According to a CBS News article, he also shared videos of anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim statements at the time. All House Democrats and 11 Republicans voted to remove Green from their committees, although the article stated that McCarthy opposed the move.
Steele said McCarthy promised Green to return to the committee if he won the House Speaker election.
"I'll call it what it is," Steele said Friday. “You call it a shadow, I call it a thing. It's hard work, because what you can't do is break up, when... you drag him to your events and support him, you say we're going to do it. I'm going to give you strong leadership."
However, not all Republicans in the House of Representatives are happy with this prospect. Earlier this month, Newsweek reported that after Green backed McCarthy for Speaker of the House, Trump supporter and Rep. Matt Goetz, D-Fla., said McCarthy would back Green "at the earliest opportunity." could. they promised you
"I wish it wasn't, but Kevin McCarthy's demeanor, demeanor and practice prove it," Gaetz said on FrankSpeech.com.
Meanwhile, Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman from Illinois, recently called McCarthy an "empty man" who should listen to whatever Green says.
In an interview with MSNBC's Cathy Pang, Walls said, "Kevin McCarthy is an empty man. Look, it's too late, moderate members of the House of Representatives who want Republicans to focus on immigration, health care or inflation, it's too late. people don't know who those moderate Republicans in the House of Representatives are. Do you know who Marjorie Taylor Green is?
Newsweek has reached out to Green and political tech firms for comment.
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