Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is shoring up the MAGA base while firing warning shots at the Trump administration for its foreign policy decisions that she believes are distracting from the conservative movement's top priority at the border.
The Georgia Republican has been urging president Donald Trump to keep his focus on border security as she weighs a possible run for U.S. Senate or governor of her home state, and she sat down for an exclusive interview with The Telegraph to explain her stand against the establishment Republicans and war hawks she believes are risking GOP control of Congress.
“The American people are sick of it, we are fed up with it," Greene said, listing the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. “We’ve seen too many foreign wars.”
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Greene has been a frequent presence at Trump rallies, and she claims to know why MAGA supporters show up at sports areas to see the president or at polling places to vote for him.
"I know exactly what made people stand in line for hours and days,” she said. “I know what made them scream and cheer. I know what made them cry, and I know how important that election was."
Those voters don't care about Yemen's Houthi rebels disrupting international shipping, Greene said, but they do care about undocumented immigrants and domestic crime.
“I haven’t seen a Houthi or a 'Hootie' or, however you say it, I don’t know what one looks like,” Greene said. “They aren’t at Walmart, they’re not in the Waffle House. They aren’t robbing anybody that I’ve ever met.”
MAGA voters also don't care about Ukraine's war against Russian aggression, she said.
“Everybody was like, we don’t want to pay for this,” she said. “We can’t even find Ukraine on a map. This isn’t affecting our lives. We’ve got bigger problems. At the time, our border was under an invasion every single day, and there was no country in the world coming to America’s defense.”
