Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Monday that President Trump shut down the Senate ambitions of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), prompting some backlash from the Georgia Republican to the White House.
“Here’s some tea for you,” Ocasio-Cortez said during an Instagram live stream. “MTG, people are saying, ‘Oh my God, she’s saying all these things, like, what’s happened to her lately?,’ ‘Oh, like, she’s standing up against Trump, she’s standing up against the administration.'”
“Marjorie Taylor Greene wanted to run for Senate in Georgia. She wanted to run for Senate in the state of Georgia earlier this year, she wanted to be the Republican nominee for Senate. So, she was preparing for that statewide race, and Trump told her no,” the New York Democrat said.
“Trump said no, and the White House and Trumpland shut down Marjorie Taylor Greene’s personal ambitions to run for Senate, and she has been on a journey of revenge ever since.”
In May, Greene announced that she would not run for Georgia’s Senate race next year. and go against the existing Senator Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.)
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Green said she has been accepted President Trump may not love him in return because of his party’s recent criticism.
“I love him,” Greene said Tuesday while talking about the president on “The View.”
Greene has also said that her party is going to lose the lower house of Congress if the cost of living does not go down. georgia republican she said she couldn’t “Looking into the future, but I think Republicans are going to lose the House if Americans continue to pay paycheck to paycheck,” he said in an interview with Semaphore published last month.
“They will certainly look at it through the lens of their bank account in the medium term,” he said.
The Hill has contacted the White House and Greene’s office for comment.
