It's a dream ticket or a nightmare ticket depending on your MAGA perspective: former President Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2024. Greene herself tells Robert Draper of the New York Times that she and Trump have discussed the possibility. “I would be honored,” she says, while acknowledging, “I think the last person that the RNC or the national party wants is me as his running mate.” The snippet is part of a lengthy profile excerpted from Draper's book, Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind. The author spent a lot of time with the Georgia congresswoman over the last 18 months, and he traces her rise from "political pariah" (she was a fervent believer of QAnon conspiracy theories) to her current "position of undeniable influence" in the GOP (including her staunch insistence that the 2020 election was stolen).
So if not VP, then what? Should the GOP take control of the House, Greene says she's deserving of plum committee posts because she's "been treated like garbage" so far in DC. "I think that to be the best speaker of the House and to please the base, he’s going to give me a lot of power and a lot of leeway,’" she says of Rep. Kevin McCarthy. "And if he doesn’t, they’re going to be very unhappy about it. I think that’s the best way to read that. And that’s not in any way a threat at all. I just think that’s reality." Draper writes that Greene's ascent offers a "case study in G.O.P. politics in the Trump era," and he maintains that "what has received far less discussion than the outrageousness of her daily utterances is what the sum total of them portends for America under a Republican majority with Greene in the vanguard." The full story explores that. (More Marjorie Taylor Greene stories.)
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