Mace, after assembly with McCarthy, additionally didn’t again down after being requested about Greene’s main challenger feedback.
“All I can say about Marjorie Taylor Greene is bless her fucking heart,” Mace instructed reporters.
Greene, for her half, dismissed the concept her feedback had been an escalation of their feud, arguing that she reiterated a place she has beforehand taken.
“After my meeting with Kevin McCarthy … I agreed that I’d quit attacking her and I haven’t attacked her,” Greene instructed POLITICO in an interview Tuesday evening, describing it as assembly with the highest Republican. “I don’t think I said anything different after the meeting.”
“I wasn’t announcing anything about President Trump because he already emailed that out,” she added. “I didn’t go out making announcements about Nancy Mace. If I was gonna make an announcement about Nancy Mace, she’d see me tweeting it.”
Still, Greene’s remarks didn’t dial down the temperature or cease the general public infighting.
And Mace didn’t put down her boxing gloves, both. Mace later referred to as Greene a “a No. 1 grifter,” somebody who has “nothing going on in her life,” somebody who “takes benefit of weak Americans and weak conservatives,“ amongst different digs to a bunch of reporters on the Capitol steps.
Mace and Greene have thrown public punches at each other earlier than, however this newest melee erupted after Mace condemned fellow freshman Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) over her anti-Muslim remarks, together with calling Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) a member of the “Jihad squad.”
When requested about Boebert’s feedback, Mace instructed CNN on Sunday that she has beforehand condemned colleagues on “both sides of the aisle for racist tropes and remarks that I find disgusting — and this is no different than any others.” Greene then took to Twitter telling Mace to “back up off” Boebert and suggesting that she will go grasp with the “Jihad squad.” After that, the 2 ladies issued varied tweets going after each other.
This newest inner brouhaha comes after McCarthy has already confronted a sequence of controversies along with his GOP members, every time distracting from GOP efforts flip up the warmth on Democrats and the Biden administration as they search to reclaim the bulk subsequent yr.
It additionally additional illustrates McCarthy’s balancing act as he seeks to additionally win the speaker’s gavel: Trying to keep the pro-Trump wing of the occasion and the faction of Republicans who need to head in a brand new route— two incompatible wings of the occasion — unified.
Kyle Cheney contributed to this report.
