Greene and Gosar increasingly isolated in Hill GOP after speaking at white nationalist event
The House and Senate Republican leaders spoke out after the two conservatives attended a weekend conference organized by a far-right, pro-Russia fringe figure.
Reps. Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene are on an island among their fellow GOP lawmakers after appearing with a white nationalist group over the weekend.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and a host of other Republican leaders are condemning party members who engage with white nationalist groups, days after Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Greene (R-Ga.) spoke at the extremist-backed America First Political Action Conference. It’s the most serious signs of isolation yet for the two Trump-allied conservatives, as party leaders criticize their actions and decline to defend them.
When asked if he plans to take action against Gosar and Greene, McCarthy said on Monday evening he would “have a discussion” with the duo. McCarthy described far-fright fringe organizer Nick Fuentes’s language as “appalling” and said the “language that he uses about antisemitism and the chanting for Putin is unacceptable.”
McCarthy also told CNN that Greene should have left the stage after Fuentes introduced her over the weekend after urging the crowd to give “a round of applause for Russia.” His condemnations came quickly on the heels of McConnell’s disapproval. The Senate GOP leader said in a statement on Monday afternoon that “there’s no place in the Republican Party for white supremacists or anti-Semitism.”
During the weekend conference, as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s army attacked Ukraine, a chant of “Putin” was heard in the crowd after Fuentes made his request for support of Moscow. Gosar spoke at the America First conference last year, when Fuentes urged the protection of the “white demographic core.”
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McConnell condemned Reps. Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene's appearance at a white nationalist conference. The event's far-right organizer urged crowds to give Russia "a round of applause." https://t.co/HqUWUi5k4x
— POLITICO (@politico) February 28, 2022
.@SenatorRomney: "Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, I don't know them, but I'm reminded of that old line from the Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid movie where one character says 'morons, I've got morons on my team.'" https://t.co/3g8uAekwvU pic.twitter.com/TA7l7QkzAF
— The Hill (@thehill) March 1, 2022
Isolated..yet still in office and getting paid by the taxpayers. They should be censured. They need to go.
In 2020, voters eradicated a brewing Democrat wave because Democrat candidates were nuts. In 2022, if the GOP does not police its own nuts, voters could very well do the same to the GOP. https://t.co/qmWT84Gb1o
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) February 28, 2022
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