Two Republican freshman lawmakers have come out against the president after a group of his supporters breached the Capitol just as Congress certified the election for Joe Biden, while other more loyal supporters of Trump have held firm in their support of him.
South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace got into a heated debate with Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, according to Axios. In a group text message with all freshmen GOP lawmakers, Greene sent a link to a National Pulse article reporting that the president's approval rating had increased in December.
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Mace, who disagreed with many members of her very own party who objected to the certification, reportedly responded to Greene, saying “I’m disgusted by what you and other Q-conspiracy theorists did last week in the chamber after all of the violence.”
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In response, the Georgia lawmaker said she had strongly condemned the violence and told her colleague not to “believe the fake news.” Greene also mentioned that Black Lives Matter protests often have become extremely violent, Axios reported. “Literal QAnon lady trying to deny she’s a QAnon lady,” Mace responded.
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Many members of the freshmen GOP class took sides.
Rep. Peter Meijer of Michigan, who has openly shown his support for the impeachment effort, came to Mace’s defense, while Burgess Owens of Utah thanked Greene for supporting the president.
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"Who is the freshman rep that is betraying everyone's trust and leaking our group chat to the press?" Greene told Axios, and a representative from her office passed along the same message to the Washington Examiner. Mace's office has yet to respond to a request for a comment.
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over 130 House Republicans voted against the certification of the election results for Biden in Arizona, Pennsylvania, or both states. Many of them mentioned allegations of fraud that have been promoted by conservatives and the president himself for months, although the president's legal team was shut down by most courts of law..
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Just a week after lawmakers voted on certifying the president's loss to Biden, they will be voting on an article of impeachment against the president, the second one for the president. A few of the House Republicans, Liz Cheney, Fred Upton, Adam Kinzinger, and John Katko, have already announced their intention to vote in favor of impeaching Trump.
This rift amongst the young representatives is actually an issue across the republican party, with many GOP's feeling the pressure by media and Democrat representatives to cave into what they would like to see.
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