House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said far-right conspiracy theorist Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) reminds him of his friends from high school as the two appear to have form a bond following McCarthy’s protracted fight for the speakership.
“If you’re going to be in a fight, you want Marjorie in your foxhole,” McCarthy told the New York Times. “When she picks a fight, she’s going to fight until the fight’s over. She reminds me of my friends from high school, that we’re going to stick together all the way through.”
Greene, a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory, who also spoke at a white supremacist rally and said if she was in charge of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot the insurrectionists “would have won”, was not always supportive of McCarthy.
According to the Times, Greene believed McCarthy had a hand in her removal from committees for promoting violence against top Democrats. In November 2021 she told Insider that McCarthy “definitely doesn’t have the support he needs” to become the next Speaker.
Two years later, Greene supported McCarthy on all 15 ballots for Speaker while condemning the other far-right members of the Republican conference for not backing him.
“I will never leave that woman,” McCarthy told a friend, according to The Times. “I will always take care of her.”
Last week, McCarthy placed Greene on two powerful House committees: Oversight and Accountability and the Committee on Homeland Security.
“People need to understand that it isn’t just me that deserves credit. It is the will and the voice of our base that was heard, and Kevin listened to them. I was just a vehicle much of the time,” Greene told The Times.
