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Eugene

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Mon Dec 19, 2022, 11:47 PM Dec 2022

Marjorie Greene And Lauren Boebert Get Personal In Very Public Spat [View all]

Source: HuffPost

Marjorie Taylor Greene And Lauren Boebert Get Personal In Very Public Spat

The extremist congresswoman from Georgia accused her Colorado counterpart of "high school drama."

By Josephine Harvey
Dec 19, 2022, 09:51 PM EST

Far-right Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) traded blows on Monday in a disagreement over the next House speaker.

At a Turning Point USA conference in Phoenix, Boebert criticized Greene for backing current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) for speaker.

“I’ve been aligned with Marjorie and accused of believing a lot of the things that she believes in,” Boebert said. “I don’t believe in this just like I don’t believe in ... Jewish space lasers,” she added, referring to one of Greene’s most widely-ridiculed conspiracy theories.

Greene shot back on Twitter, accusing Boebert of “high school drama” and noting that the Colorado Republican won reelection on a knife’s edge.

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Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/marjorie-taylor-greene-lauren-boebert-drama_n_63a10cf6e4b0aeb2ace6b7e3

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