A feud between Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Nancy Mace of South Carolina escalated Tuesday, with the two congresswomen appearing separately on the same radio show and Greene claiming that former President Donald Trump planned to endorse a primary challenger to Mace.
“I had a great conversation with him about Nancy Mace, who he does not like. And he is very much looking forward to endorsing a primary challenger against her,” Greene said of her conversation with Trump on Todd Starnes‘s show.
Mace, a freshman congresswoman like Greene, has several Republican primary challengers who suggest that Mace is not conservative enough. They include Army veteran Ingrid Centurion and military spouse Lynz Piper-Loomis.
Greene said that she also spoke to Trump about the separate feud between Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, which subsequently led to a reaction from Mace that sparked Greene to attack her. Greene said that Trump read her a draft of his statement calling on Omar to apologize for “marrying her brother, committing large-scale immigration and election fraud, wishing death to Israel,” and more before he released it to the public.
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Greene took aim at Mace after the South Carolina congresswoman criticized what Boebert said in a viral video while telling a story about being in a Capitol Hill elevator with Omar. A Capitol Police officer appeared, she said, concerned that the two were in an elevator together.
“Well, she doesn’t have a backpack, we should be fine,” Boebert recalled saying in an apparent reference to suicide bombings. She added that Omar was part of the “Jihad Squad.”
Mace then criticized Boebert on CNN for making “racist tropes and remarks that I find disgusting,” which prompted Greene to lash out on Twitter, sparking an hourslong back-and-forth between the two on Twitter with dozens of tweets.
“She has attacked me in our conference meetings before, and I’m fed up with her,” Greene said on the radio show. “She’s the trash in the GOP conference, and it’s time to take the trash out.”
Greene again accused Mace of being “pro-abortion,” which prompted a strong response from Mace when she appeared on the radio show several segments later.
“I didn’t even vote to strip Marjorie of her committee assignments because I am a constitutional conservative. But I’m also not going to put up with liars,” Mace said. “Congressman Greene had to go out and spew lies about my record, telling people I’m pro-choice and pro-abortion … Nothing could be further from the truth, and I’m not going to be bullied. I’m not a doormat. I’m not a shrinking violet.”
Mace reiterated that she was a victim of rape at 16 years old, which prompted her to drop out of high school and turn to drugs and alcohol.
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“I’ve cosponsored pro-life legislation. I do want protections for women who’ve been raped or victims of incest because I myself am a victim of rape,” Mace said.
Each of the congresswomen accused the other of saying things purely to raise money: Mace said Greene is a grifter who says “crazy things or raise money off of vulnerable conservatives,” and Greene said that Mace “throws Lauren Boebert and people like me under the bus and completely attacks us so that she can get donations from Democrat donors.”
