{"id":1829083,"date":"2023-01-30T13:22:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829083"},"modified":"2023-01-30T13:23:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T18:23:27","slug":"exclusive-interview-marjorie-taylor-greene-says-she-hasnt-changed-the-party-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-interview-marjorie-taylor-greene-says-she-hasnt-changed-the-party-has\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive Interview: Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Hasn\u2019t Changed, The Party Has"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-interview-marjorie-taylor-greene-says-she-hasnt-changed-the-party-has%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1829083&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Marjorie Taylor Greene and the most powerful man in the chamber exchanged whispers on the House Floor earlier this month. The headlines became apoplectic.<\/p>\n<p>The Georgia congresswoman\u2019s close alliance with Kevin McCarthy was on full display during his chaotic fight to become House speaker, a fight he ultimately won, in part thanks to Greene vouching for his conservative credentials.\u00a0Pundits began immediately to cite a href=&#8221;https:\/\/www.thebulwark.com\/the-normalization-of-marjorie-taylor-greene\/?itm_source=parsely-api&#8221;>gesticulating<\/a> More information about \u201cnormalization\u201d The so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/qanon-congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-suspended-from-twitter\">QAnon congresswoman<\/a>,\u201d She is well-known by her initials by critics and fans alike. \u201cMTG,\u201d Her unapologetically America First branding.<\/p>\n<p>Greene&#8217;s new outlook on proximity to power is &#8220;proximity to power&#8221;, which was a departure from his previous one. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/04\/963785609\/house-to-vote-on-stripping-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-from-2-key-committees\">Get started<\/a> Soon after she was elected, her committees were taken over by Democrats. During her first term, she was considered a pariah by the leadership. Since then, she has been a successful entrepreneur. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/04\/marjorie-taylor-greene-regret-qanon-conspiracy-claims.html\">Distant<\/a> She has been criticized for her controversial remarks, but it hasn&#8217;t stopped her critics who insist that she is dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Greene seems poised to exert a strong influence on the GOP agenda in House. This has fueled speculation that Greene is changing her image into a cleaner, more palatable version.<\/p>\n<p>Greene laughed at the suggestion that she has changed during a last week interview at her Washington, D.C., headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing changed about me and didn\u2019t need to change,\u201d Greene wore jeans while sitting opposite a wall that was almost to the ceiling with framed photos of her family, she said.\u00a0\u201cI haven\u2019t changed my views. I haven\u2019t changed my political positions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the party that has changed, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat has changed is the Republican Party has been pushed to the right. The Republican Party has been pushed to be more America First,\u201d Greene said.<\/p>\n<p>Greene stated that she tried to \u201cconstantly echo\u201d These are the main concerns \u201cMr. and Mrs. American, regular Americans,\u201d Who have been \u201ctotally neglected\u201d Washington. She said that she has done this both in private and public, including floor speeches, conference meetings, and private meetings with McCarthy and other leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if there\u2019s anything that has changed, I think the Republican Party cares more about Americans, and they need to continue to do that,\u201d She said.<\/p>\n<p>And her critics? \u201cpeople were lying about me. They lied about a lot,\u201d She said. \u201cThe media has lied about me extensively and called me horrific names that don\u2019t reflect who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said that her staunch support of McCarthy during the House speaker fight was both pragmatically and principled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t pick a fake fight, and that was a fake fight,\u201d Greene said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Greene won McCarthy votes as he tried to quell an internal rebellion led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R.FL) from her Freedom Caucus colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy was finally elected speaker. He received 15 votes in four days. The insurgents eventually gave up, but he did not give up without making several concessions. One was a change in rules. \u201cmotion to vacate the chair,\u201d One member can force McCarthy to be removed as speaker at any time. Other concessions included an end to COVID mandates and funding, a committee to investigate the FBI\u2019s alleged weaponization against its political enemies, more single-subject bills, and a promise not to increase the debt ceiling in the next federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>Greene claims that the much-hyped concessions did not change, while Gaetz and his company exaggerated their importance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t lie to make yourself look like you\u2019re conservative or make yourself look anti-establishment when you\u2019re not changing anything,\u201d She said.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans simply do not have enough conservatives to elect someone like McCarthy\u2019s challenger Representative Andy Biggs (R-AZ), the chairman of the Freedom Caucus, Greene said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI dream of a conservative speaker too. It\u2019s just impossible to get one,\u201d She added that McCarthy is a good choice. \u201cwilling to listen\u201d and willing to fight\u201d on conservative agenda items.<\/p>\n<p>Greene indicated that Democrats were at risk of joining moderate Republicans in choosing their own speaker during the speaker debate. She said that she heard Rep. Marcy Kaptur, a Democratic Representative from Ohio, and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick sitting behind her, discussing their lists and how to get 218 votes. That is the threshold needed to elect a speaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was literally happening. It was happening,\u201d Greene said.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy&#8217;s support does not necessarily mean that she will. \u201cline up with leadership all the time\u201d Or \u201cfight the Freedom Caucus\u201d She has promised to keep her promise from now on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, that\u2019s not the case,\u201d Greene said. \u201cMy voting record will still be the same. I still support the same views and values, and I\u2019m gonna continue to fight on those things. I\u2019m just not willing to do it for no reason, just to look tough or look a certain way in the public eye.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She stated that while the House is still dominated by Republicans, it&#8217;s good to be able to feel the relief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been comparing it to the land of Narnia, when the ice queen, all the ice melted, and everything turned green again, and she was no longer in power,\u201d Greene quipped.<\/p>\n<p>She cautioned however that she was not more optimistic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Marjorie Taylor Greene traded whispers on the House floor with the most powerful man in the chamber earlier this month, the headlines turned apoplectic. The Georgia congresswoman\u2019s close alliance with Kevin McCarthy was on full display during his chaotic fight to become House speaker, a fight he ultimately won, in part thanks to Greene &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1829086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7281,3725,4659,9508,6234,4653,4787,4656],"class_list":["post-1829083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-changed","tag-exclusive","tag-greene","tag-hasnt","tag-interview","tag-marjorie","tag-party","tag-taylor"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1829086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}