Former US congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene followed far-right political commentator Tucker Carlson in breaking ties and rebuking the Republican Party in a X/Twitter post on Monday.
“Tucker is not the only one who is done supporting the Republican Party. There is A LOT of us that are absolutely fed up and will not support a party that betrays its voters and country,” Greene announced.
“That does not mean we are turning into Democrats either. But we are DONE with the America LAST Republican Party.”
Greene’s comments came after Tucker Carlson stated in a podcast that “there’s no chance I would support the Republican Party” in reference to the upcoming midterm elections in November.
Both pointed out that breaking with the GOP didn’t mean they were supporting the Democratic Party.
Both Greene and Carlson have been vocal critics of the Trump administration’s handling of the economy, the so-called Epstein Library, and the Iran War during his second term.
After the US-Israeli strikes on Iran at the end of February, Carlson publicly apologized to his almost 18 million followers on X for encouraging them to vote for Trump in the 2024 Presidential elections. With that, he dismissed the candidate and party he had supported for over a decade.
In the same podcast episode of Can’t Be Censored, Carlson elaborated on why he would not endorse the GOP.
“How could I or any American voter support a political party that’s not loyal to the United States. That puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens.”
Carlson has characterized Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign as funded largely by people “loyal to Israel” and that the pro-Israel lobby is forcing him to pursue policies that are harmful to the US and its citizens.
“What we know for certain is that the United States went to war with Iran, a war we are losing, that we’ve effectively lost already, because of pressure from the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu,” Carlson asserted.
Trump has repeatedly dismissed any claims that he has been manipulated by Prime Minister Netanyahu or any other foreign actors.
“I call the shots. I call all the shots… [Netanyahu] doesn’t call the shots,” Trump said in a March interview with the Financial Times.
Like Carlson, Greene is a former Trump supporter who served as representative for Georgia’s 14th district. She resigned from office after splitting with Trump over his handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s case. Since leaving office, she has been vocal in her criticism of Trump and his allies.
Her announcement to leave the Republican Party comes as the latest fracture in a formerly solidly pro-Trump part of the GOP.
