Rep. Jamie Raskin said his party would welcome Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. (Kent Nishimura/Reuters; Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
The audience booed at the congressman's suggestion that Greene — a longtime conservative firebrand and staunch supporter of President Donald Trump until their recent falling out — should be brought into the fray.
Greene has stepped up criticism of GOP leadership in recent months, taking aim at the party’s approach to health care and other issues. She has also broken from her party regarding Israel, calling the Jewish State's military campaign in Gaza a "genocide" and "humanitarian crisis."
She has also been at odds with Trump and her party's leaders over her call for the full release of documents related to the case of deceased sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, although the president has since reversed course on his pressure campaign to stop the release after House lawmakers secured enough support to force a full vote on a bipartisan resolution to release the files.
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The audience booed at Rep. Jamie Raskin's suggestion that the Georgia Republican be welcomed into the Democratic Party. (Annabelle Gordon/Reuters)
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"But my favorite thing to call myself today is a conservative, because I want to conserve the land, the air, the water, the climate system, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Voting Rights Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act," he said.
"Everything that party of authoritarians wants to destroy is everything we’re going to conserve and defend in America," the congressman continued. "We are the party of the conservatives, the liberals and the progressives. All the patriots today are in the party of democracy. That’s who we are."
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