Marjorie Taylor Greene gets really shady about how Lauren Boebert might lose her reelection

It’s no secret that Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) simply do not like each other, despite their shared far-right views and anti-LGBTQ+ extremism.

But Greene seems to be taking a certain amount of joy in the prospect of Boebert losing her reelection bid and getting booted from the House.

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“She has genuinely been a nasty little b***h to me,” Greene said after the heated exchange.

Greene was talking to Kevin Cirilli, a reporter for The Hill, about how Boebert came in fifth in a straw poll in the GOP primary in the new congressional district. Boebert, who was facing a strong Democratic challenger in Colorado’s Third Congressional District, announced in December that she was going to run in the state’s more Republican Fourth District. She is facing nine other candidates in the Fourth’s GOP primary.

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“I think she’s got to earn those people’s support,” said Greene, who comfortably represents Georgia’s ultra-conservative Fourteenth Congressional District.

“I saw that she came in fifth place in the straw poll over the weekend,” she enthused to Cirilli, adding that Boebert “should be very concerned about” the poll.

“I think that’s a serious primary, and it seems like there’s some good candidates in there,” Greene continued, not specifying whether those “good candidates” include Boebert. “We’ll see what’s happening with the polling and the direction it’s going in.”

Greene was talking about a straw poll taken among Republicans who were present for a primary debate earlier this month, where Boebert got 12 out of 117 votes cast. The poll occurred shortly after the debate, where one of her opponents called her a “carpetbagger” to her face. A carpetbagger is a term that also refers to someone who tries to get elected in an area that they have no real connection with — it’s often applied to career politicians who are seen as selfish and unscrupulous.

The poll was far from scientific. The Colorado Sun’s Jesse Aaron Paul notes that the debate was held outside of Colorado’s Fourth District, that the audience had to pay to attend, and that the audience was full of friends and family members of candidates.

In 2020, Donald Trump won Boebert’s current district – Colorado’s Third – by a small margin, getting 52% of the vote compared to President Joe Biden’s 46%. Boebert won her reelection in 2022 by just 546 votes, or 0.17% of the total votes cast in that election.

In contrast, Trump got 73% of the vote and Biden 25% in Greene’s district, Georgia’s Fourteenth. Greene herself was reelected in 2022 and got almost twice as many votes as her Democratic challenger, Marcus Flowers.