Marjorie Taylor Greene

Reflecting on the events of Thursday when various members of the House Republican caucus ran to microphones to announce how they will spend the next two years launching investigations and promoting new conspiracy theories, George Conway claimed that current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) now has his hands full.

Sitting in on an MSNBC "Morning Joe" panel, Conway looked on as co-host Mika Brzezinski shared clips from the speeches.

Republicans won control of the U.S. House of Representatives during the 2022 midterms, but the infighting that has occurred as GOP leaders respond to the results has exposed unconventional divides in the party.

"The first skirmishes of the civil war to define the future of the Republican Party were fought this week across the sprawling corridors of the Capitol," Ben Jacobs reported for New York magazine. "With Donald Trump’s verbose announcement speech serving as an intermission, the leadership contest among House Republicans on Tuesday and Senate Republicans on Wednesday marked some of the initial cleavages within the party in the aftermath of a disappointing midterm election."

In North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District, Rep. Madison Cawthorn became a lame duck earlier this year when he lost a U.S. House primary to fellow Republican Chuck Edwards (who went on to defeat Democrat Jasmine Beach-Ferrara in the general election). Cawthorn, a far-right MAGA conspiracy theorist, will not be part of the U.S. House of Representatives’ new GOP-controlled majority when it is seated on January 3, 2023. And according to Asheville Citizen Times reporter Joel Burgess, Cawthorn is now missing in action.

Cawthorn, Burgess reports in an article published on November 16, “has apparently vacated his Washington and district offices nearly two months before the end of his term.”

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough reacted to Herschel Walker's bizarre diatribe about vampires and werewolves during a campaign speech.

The football legend-turned-Republican Senate candidate is facing off Dec. 6 in a runoff election against Sen. Rafael Warnock (D-GA), and he spoke for more than two minutes about a late-night movie he had recently watched, which prompted him to compare the relative strengths of the folkloric creatures.

Former President Donald Trump has been written off before, but MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said this time feels different.

The former president announced his 2024 campaign this week, but several GOP megadonors have already said they would not support his White House bid, and several rivals are emerging as challengers for the Republican nomination.

Republicans now have a narrow majority in the House of Representatives -- and the party's hardliners are now reportedly intent on collecting their pound of flesh in exchange for their cooperation.

The New York Times reports that a group of Republicans including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) this week "extracted a promise that their leaders would investigate Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Justice Department for their treatment of defendants jailed in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol."

On Wednesday, writing for The Daily Beast, political and national security analyst David Rothkopf warned that Trump's "authoritarian" allies and followers still have grand designs of dismantling American civil institutions and killing democracy — and while the GOP's underperformance in 2022 was a setback, it was by no means the end of their ambitions.

"Yes, many prominent election deniers lost their races, but a disquieting number of them won at both the national and local levels. And the GOP supermajority on the Supreme Court isn’t going anywhere — which means more fundamental rights are threatened, and partisans will have friends in high places should they want to distort election results in the future," wrote Rothkopf. "We must look at the would-be contenders to carry the GOP banner during the 2024 presidential campaign and understand that, like the last Republican president, they are drawn like moths to the authoritarian flame. Their goal is to incinerate checks on presidential power and to suppress the will of all those who may oppose them."

On Wednesday's edition of MSNBC's "The Beat," former Republican strategist and Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson analyzed how the Republican Party is likely to use its new, narrow House majority.

This came minutes after NBC News projected that Republicans had secured the 218th House seat necessary to take control of the chamber.

Donald Trump's Tuesday night announcement that he would run for the White House for the third presidential cycle in a row has not generated the amount of excitement that he may have hoped for as he seeks to clear the field.

"Anyone looking for Republican reactions to Donald J. Trump’s announcement of a third presidential campaign may have been surprised by the silence," The New York Times reported Wednesday. "There was, to be sure, a vocal contingent celebrating Mr. Trump’s entry into the 2024 race."

Donald Trump's entry into the 2024 presidential race could unleash a new type of legal chaos.

Advocacy groups have already pledged to challenge his candidacy in multiple states under a post-Civil War prohibition against individuals sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution who have “engaged in insurrection or rebellion," which has been fairly untested so far in history and could result in conflicting decisions around the country, reported Bloomberg.

Former right-leaning Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii abandoned the Democratic Party and began endorsing Republican candidates for the 2022 midterm elections, New Republic said on Wednesday.

Gabbard endorsed some of the far-right Republicans seeking seats like Blake Masters in Arizona, Don Buldoc in New Hampshire, Adam Laxalt in Nevada, Kari Lake in Arizona and Tudor Dixon in Michigan. She endorsed 13 candidates and thus far 10 have lost. Those that won were two incumbents, Mike Lee for Utah and Kristi Noem for South Dakota and J.D. Vance for Ohio.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) suggested that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will name her to the Oversight Committee if he becomes Speaker.

During an interview on Wednesday, conservative host Charlie Kirk asked Greene how she could be sure McCarthy would follow through with a far-right agenda, including subpoenas for Dr. Anthony Fauci and people close to President Joe Biden.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) criticized Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Wednesday, even though the two are usually allies in Congress.

Biggs and Greene have found themselves in a disagreement over who should be the Republican Speaker of the House. Biggs is running for the position but Greene is supporting House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).