Let it go already! Marjorie Taylor Greene won’t give up war with Mike Johnson after failed ouster

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has signalled that significant divisions between her and fellow Republican Mike Johnson remain as she spoke about her failed attempt to bring down the House speaker earlier this week.

On Wednesday, Greene brought her long-awaited motion to vacate to the floor in an effort to remove Johnson from the speaker’s chair. It failed spectacularly, with 196 Republicans and 163 Democrats voting to kill her resolution.

But she appeared unable to move on during an interview with Fox News on Sunday where she accused Mr Johnson “of being owned by the Democrats” after the rival party voted to protect him.

Americans are “fed up with Republicans that will not defend President Trump”, Rep. Greene told host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures.

Bartiromo asked Greene whether her effort to oust Johnson was creating a “disruption” too close to an election when Republicans will be seeking to defend a thin majority in the chamber.

The Georgia lawmaker responded that “the disruption, the chaos and the drama” she was bringing to Capitol Hill was already a staple of the average American’s daily life, an allusion to problems she argues are failures of Washington.

The congresswoman also shared that, ahead of her motion to vacate, she asked MrJohnson to “defund Jack Smith” — the justice department’s special counsel overseeing investigations into Mr Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, and his handling of classified documents. The House speaker does not have the power to do that.

Ms Greene also claimed that the GOP would not win control of the House in November elections unless the party “prove[d] to the American people that we’re worth they’re vote. And so far, under Mike Johnson, we haven’t