Marjorie Taylor Greene blasts Nancy Mace for her ‘disgusting attack’ on Steve Scalise

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed Rep. Nancy Mace for the comments she made accusing Majority Leader Steve Scalise of racism.

Ms. Greene accused Ms. Mace of using such “Democrat talking points” as flimsy charges of prejudice in explaining her support for House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, in his bid to be speaker instead of Mr. Scalise.

In a lengthy statement Thursday on the social-media site X, Ms. Greene said she also backs Mr. Jordan’s bid to replace House Speaker Kevin McCarthy but denounced “an unfair and quite frankly disgusting attack” on Mr. Scalise, Louisiana Republican. 

“Members of our conference [are] using Democrat talking points, using the same lines of attack that Democrats use against every single Republican, every single election, every single day, in these halls of Congress to attack Steve,” the Georgia Republican wrote.

“He isn’t a White Supremacist,” she wrote in the post that featured a clip of Ms. Mace. “We all know that. He’s a good man.”

Ms. Greene said that she likes Mr. Scalise but wants him to focus on beating cancer.

Ms. Mace had said in a Wednesday interview with CNN that she could not vote for Mr. Scalise because of purported ties to white supremacists. 

“I’ve been very vocal about this over the last couple of days. I personally cannot in good conscience vote for someone who attended a white supremacist conference and compared himself to David Duke,” she said. “I would be doing an enormous disservice to the voters that I represent in South Carolina if I were to do that.”

Ms. Mace’s comments were referring to reports that Mr. Scalise attended a conference for white supremacists in the early 2000s and at another point had compared himself to Mr. Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, but “without the baggage.”

Ms. Greene took issue with how Ms. Mace was insinuating that “half the conference supports a white supremacist” and that it gave “Dems ammunition against half our conference.”

“I want a speaker we can all unite behind and one that reflects what our Republican voters want. They want an agenda like President Trump’s,” she wrote. “I want a party that’s not always splintered into five factions. I want a party that’s a single fist so we can knock out Democrats and save this country.”