{"id":723512,"date":"2026-06-24T17:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723512\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:06:08","slug":"marjorie-taylor-greene-joins-tucker-carlson-in-breaking-with-republican-party-marjorie-taylor-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/723512\/","title":{"rendered":"Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Tucker Carlson in breaking with Republican party | Marjorie Taylor Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Former US congresswoman and Trump loyalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/marjorie-taylor-greene\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a> has announced that she is finished backing the Republican party, aligning herself with TV rightwinger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/tucker-carlson\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tucker Carlson<\/a> after his own high-profile rejection of the GOP just months ahead of the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">During a recent episode of the Can\u2019t Be Censored podcast, Carlson said when he appeared as a guest there was \u201cno chance\u201d he would support the Republican party any more, after years of being a prominent booster for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">He had pointed to his growing dissatisfaction with the party, but clarified that this did not mean a shift to the left. \u201cNot gonna support the Democratic party,\u201d Carlson was quick to add: \u201cI don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">He also said he had been \u201ca consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican party. If I\u2019m out, then I think a lot of other people are out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Now, Greene has publicly voiced her support for Carlson\u2019s position, signaling what she also suggested could be a wider break among longtime Republican supporters and intensifying scrutiny over divisions within the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cTucker is not the only one who is done supporting the Republican Party,\u201d she wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mtgreenee\/status\/2069144324370006421\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow\">social media post<\/a> earlier this week. \u201cThere is A LOT of us that are absolutely fed up and will not support a party that betrays its voters and country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cThat does not mean we are turning into Democrats either,\u201d she added. \u201cBut we are DONE with the America LAST Republican Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Carlson, the former Fox News host, and Greene, the former Georgia congresswoman, have both emerged as vocal critics of the US president\u2019s second term. Their objections have centered on the conflict with Iran and what they see as a failure to prioritize domestic concerns such as inflation while consumer prices <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/28\/inflation-increased-april-iran-war-price-rises\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">continue to outpace<\/a> wage growth. In April, Carlson said he was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/21\/tucker-carlson-regrets-trump-support\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tormented<\/a>\u201d by his previous support of Trump and regrets the \u201csmall but real ways\u201d he helped contribute to his election victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The rift between Greene and Trump widened after she criticized the administration\u2019s handling of the government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jeffrey-epstein\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> files about the late sex offender with connections among the rich and powerful, placing her in conflict with Trump and other figures in his Maga base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">As tensions grew last year, Trump began calling her Marjorie \u201cTraitor\u201d Greene. Greene ultimately decided against running for another term in the US House and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/21\/marjorie-taylor-greene-resigns\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stepped down<\/a> from Congress at the beginning of the year. In May, Greene revealed that she and her family <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/15\/marjorie-taylor-greene-safety-trump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">received death threats<\/a> after Trump\u2019s public attacks towards her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Carlson, who has long opposed US involvement in foreign conflicts, said his decision to part ways with the Republican party stemmed from what he views as its abandonment of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/iGxuqtCM9kc\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">America first<\/a>\u201d principles. He has repeatedly criticized Israel, arguing that it pushed Washington toward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">war with Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Trump reportedly told Carlson during an Oval Office meeting last year that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/19\/trump-musk-carlson-iran-war\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">would not go to war<\/a> with Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former US congresswoman and Trump loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced that she is finished backing the Republican&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-723512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}