Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Tucker Carlson in breaking with Republican party

Former US congresswoman and Trump loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced that she is finished backing the Republican party, aligning herself with TV rightwinger Tucker Carlson after his own high-profile rejection of the GOP just months ahead of the midterm elections. During a recent episode of the Can’t Be Censored podcast, Carlson said when he appeared as a guest there was “no chance” he would support the Republican party any more, after years of being a prominent booster for Donald Trump . He had pointed to his growing dissatisfaction with the party, but clarified that this did not mean a shift to the left. “Not gonna support the Democratic party,” Carlson was quick to add: “I don’t know what I’m going to do.” He also said he had been “a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican party. If I’m out, then I think a lot of other people are out.” Now, Greene has publicly voiced her support for Carlson’s position, signaling what she also suggested could be a wider break among longtime Republican supporters and intensifying scrutiny over divisions within the party. “Tucker is not the only one who is done supporting the Republican Party,” she wrote in a social media post earlier this week. “There is A LOT of us that are absolutely fed up and will not support a party that betrays its voters and country. “That does not mean we are turning into Democrats either,” she added. …