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Senator JD Vance had variety phrases for Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene — simply hours after she urged {that a} mysterious “they” can management the climate and inflicted Hurricane Helene on Republican voters in Georgia and North Carolina.
Greene is well-known for repeating nonsense conspiracy theories. She’s voiced her perception in “Jewish house lasers”and has been cozy with QAnon concepts each earlier than and through her time in workplace.
She made her newest weird declare on X, this time in regards to the climate.
“Sure, they will management the climate. It’s ridiculous for anybody to lie and say it could’t be performed,” Greene wrote.
Earlier than making the declare that the climate may be managed, she shared a picture of the areas most affected by Hurricane Helene overlayed with an electoral map.
She wasn’t clear who “they” have been however the map’s implication is that Democrats have been in some way answerable for a hurricane to harm Republican voters.
These affected by Hurricane Helene are nonetheless recovering from the lethal storm.
Regardless of her absurd declare, Vance heaped reward on Greene throughout a current marketing campaign rally in Greene’s district.
“We now have received one other nice, robust, lady chief in Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene,” he mentioned. “Now it’s possible you’ll not know this, however one of many very first endorsements … I received once I was operating within the Republican Senate main in Ohio just a few years in the past was from Marjorie Taylor Greene, so she’s been an amazing good friend of mine.”
He went on name Greene a “loyal particular person” and a “hell of a Congresswoman.”
Democrats have been fast to sentence Vance for praising Greene. In an announcement despatched on Friday, DNC Speedy Response Director Alex Floyd known as Greene a “wildly out-of-touch conspiracy theorist and election-denying extremist who’s as poisonous to voters because the Trump-Vance Mission 2025 agenda.”
“JD Vance took time in Georgia right now to shout out his ‘nice good friend’ proper after she completed spreading contemporary conspiracy theories about how ‘they’ can management the climate whereas Georgia remains to be recovering from Hurricane Helene,” he wrote. “And that’s simply one more reason why we’re certain that Vance could have a lot extra free time to spend together with his ‘nice good friend’ after this November.”
