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- A Texas State Senate candidate praised controversial GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
- Bianca Gracia, running for district 11, said she might become a ‘mini’ version of her if elected.
- “The only one right now that’s really fighting back is Marjorie Taylor Greene,” she said.
Texas GOP candidate Bianca Gracia said she might be a “mini Marjorie Taylor Greene” if elected to office.
Gracia, who’s running for district 11 in the Texas State Senate, made the remark in an interview on “The McFiles” podcast on Wednesday.
“We have some very blind, hypocritical people in office who tell you they’re going to do all these things for you and they do nothing. They go into office and they shake hands behind closed doors and they pretend to fight against each other,” Gracia told host Christopher McDonald.
“The only one right now that’s really fighting back is Marjorie Taylor Greene,” she said.
“They don’t like her. So I might be a little mini Marjorie Taylor Greene,” she continued. “I don’t know. They’re going to call me BRG.”
Since she was elected to her Georgia seat, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who represents the state’s 14th congressional district, has been one of Congress’ most controversial figures.
Greene is the subject of an expulsion petition circulating on Change.org. The petition, which asks House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to “immediately” expel Greene from Congress, has so far collected more than 210,000 signatures.
The petition began last year after Greene compared coronavirus mask mandates to the Holocaust. In the days after she made those remarks, Greene, a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump, ardently defended them.
“You know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany,” she said, likening mask mandates to an event that killed millions of Jews.
Last week, Greene claimed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a “gazpacho police” that she used to spy on members of Congress, mistaking the Spanish soup for Nazi Germany’s secret police called the Gestapo.
Previously, Greene has also said she doesn’t “believe in evolution” and said she’d defend statues of Hitler and Satan to preserve history.
“Whether I see a statue that may be something that I would fully disagree with, like Adolf Hitler, maybe a statue of Satan himself, I would not want to say, ‘take it down,'” she said last June.
Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly slammed Greene for her remarks since her election to Congress. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, discussed filing a restraining order against Greene after she last year chased her outside the House chamber and shouted at her.
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