Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) took aim at inflammatory remarks Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) made earlier this week calling for Democrats to be banned from voting in red states for five years if they move from a blue state, a proposal Mace called “not serious” and “not conservative.”
Greene has come under fire for floating the idea of a five-year ban on voting rights, made during an interview with conservative host Charlie Kirk, as well as her support for a “national divorce” between red and blue states.
“What I think would be something that some red states could propose is: well, OK, if Democrat voters choose to flee these blue states where they cannot tolerate the living conditions, they don’t want their children taught these horrible things, and they really change their mind on the types of policies that they support, well, once they move to a red state, guess what? Maybe you don’t get to vote for five years,” Greene told Kirk.
“You can live there, and you can work there, but you don’t get to bring your values that you basically created in the blue states you came from by voting for Democrat leaders and Democrat policies,” she added.
RIGHT: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks during former President Donald Trump’s Save America rally in Perry, Ga., on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)
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Mace blasted the notion as a “fundraising gimmick” in a series of tweets, stating that “restricting freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution” does not align with the party’s platform.
“We aren’t going to ban Democrats from voting. This kind of rhetoric isn’t serious policy, it’s just a fundraising gimmick. … Don’t fall for it,” she said.
“The idea of restricting freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution, like the right to vote, is a far-Left idea. It’s not conservative. This is no different than the far-Left who want to force vaccine mandates on kids in schools,” Mace added.
“As someone who represents one of the fastest growing districts in the country, with a lot of new voters from blue states, I would never ever, ever, ever advocate for denying those new residents the right to vote,” she said.
The South Carolina Republican, who has sparred with Greene on issues in the past, argued that the best way to “change Washington is to change the people we send there” and noted that Greene’s home state of Georgia is not red.
“That means we must have better ideas, better policies and, you guessed it, better candidates,” she said.
Mace is not the only GOP lawmaker to condemn Greene’s remarks, with Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) recently telling reporters in Utah that he sees the comments as an attempt to “get a headline.”
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“I think Abraham Lincoln dealt with that kind of insanity,” he said, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. “We’re not going to divide the country. It’s united we stand and divided we fall. … There are some people in my party and the other party that say things to try and get a headline and get people to send them money. And that happens to be in today’s ‘loony Left,’ or I should say ‘loony Right.'”
Greene shot back, stating that “Mitt Romney is so bad I couldn’t even vote for him for president against Barack Obama” during an interview with the Washington Examiner.
