Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) just lately mentioned she needed to “take the temperature down a notch” now that Republicans management the House ― however she nonetheless reserves selection phrases for her fellow far-right congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
“I have been asked to explain MTG’s beliefs on Jewish space lasers, on why she showed up to a white supremacist conference. … I’m just not going to go there,” Boebert told The Associated Press in an interview in the course of the House speaker election, referring to considered one of Greene’s most generally ridiculed conspiracy theories. “She wants to say all these things and seem unhinged on Twitter, so be it.”
Boebert and Greene, although on the identical fringe of the political spectrum, apparently don’t share a heat relationship in the meanwhile. The two have been publicly feuding in current weeks over Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid for the House speakership, which Greene fervently backed ― breaking from a bloc of far-right Republican colleagues.
Last month, Boebert lashed out at Greene at a conservative convention in Phoenix, criticizing her for believing in absurd conspiracy theories and for supporting McCarthy for speaker. Greene returned fireplace on Twitter, accusing Boebert of “high school drama” and noting that the Colorado Republican received her reelection by a hair.
Boebert was among the many highest profile holdouts in opposition to McCarthy’s House management bid. However, on the 14th and fifteenth rounds of voting, she switched from supporting different candidates to voting “present,” serving to to clear the trail for McCarthy to lastly take the gavel.
In an interview last month with CBS Colorado, Boebert mentioned she deliberate to tone down her heated rhetoric now that Republicans lead the House, per suggestions from her constituents, who reelected her in November by an unexpectedly slim margin.
“I think the big takeaway from what I’ve seen and from what I’ve heard from constituents is I’m right on the policies, but everyone is ready for Washington, D.C., to kind of take the temperature down a notch,” she mentioned. “And I’m very excited and optimistic that we have the opportunity to do that now.”
In the identical Associated Press interview through which she slammed Greene, Boebert famous that her slim reelection “opened my eyes to another chance to do everything that I’ve been promising to do.”
According to Boebert, that features specializing in delivering the insurance policies she ran on relatively than “owning the left,” and dealing to scale back the battle and “bring unity.”
In her first time period, Boebert constructed a nationwide profile of extremism, fiercely embracing unfettered gun rights, non secular rhetoric and sycophantic assist for former President Donald Trump. Though she ridicules Greene for believing in so-called “Jewish space lasers,” Boebert, too, has flirted with conspiracy nonsense, having expressed assist for the QAnon motion, which holds {that a} huge community of pedophiles is managed by high Democratic Party leaders and donors.
