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Marjorie Taylor Greene is reportedly weighing a plot to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson before she retires in early January and is quietly gauging if she has the nine votes inside the Republican party to trigger a vote.
“Marjorie is approaching members to get to nine who will oust the speaker,” an anonymous source told MS Now. “And if we don’t get to work on codifying Trump’s agenda, anything can happen.”
The Georgia Republican previously tried to oust Johnson last year in protest at a foreign aid deal for Ukraine, and she has been a consistent critic of Johnson’s work throughout the second Trump administration this year.
She’s actually playing it smart.
She knows that the midterms are going to be a blood bath for the GOP. She gets to collect her pension and sit on the sidelines. She’ll get a TV pundit gig and write a book.
She’ll be in great shape to raise a lot of money in 2028.
That’s optimistic
As I say each time, as someone that grew up in her district, the most frustrating thing about her is that I know she’s very very savvy. She’s not smart but she’s very effective
I doesn’t matter how dumb the Republican is, the art of the grift is instinctual.
That’s the thing about grifting, you don’t really have to he smart, you just have to find marks dumber than you.
Indeed, it’s less about actually ousting these people. It is about being seen as trying to do so.