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Why did Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene leave the Republican party? | Geoffrey Kabaservice
Disillusioned America firsters, like Carson and Greene, are angry at Trump’s foreign interventions, may sit out the midterm elections Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and former Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene – once among Donald Trump ’s most prominent champions – announced recently that they have left the Republican party. Both rightwing superstars had feuded with the president throughout his second term, but their split was provoked by Trump’s war with Iran and what they viewed as his elevation of foreign affairs over domestic concerns like inflation and high gas prices. Although both have said that they will not support Democrats, their defection points to serious divisions within the Republican party that could weaken its prospects in the midterm elections and beyond. Geoffrey Kabaservice is the director of political studies at the Niskanen Center in Washington,
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Disillusioned America firsters, like Carson and Greene, are angry at Trump’s foreign interventions, may sit out the midterm elections Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and former Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene – once among Donald Trump ’s most prominent champions – announced recently that they have left the Republican party. Both rightwing superstars had feuded with the president throughout his second term, but their split was provoked by Trump’s war with Iran and what they viewed as his elevation of foreign affairs over domestic concerns like inflation and high gas prices. Although both have said that they will not support Democrats, their defection points to serious divisions within the Republican party that could weaken its prospects in the midterm elections and beyond. Geoffrey Kabaservice is the director of political studies at the Niskanen Center in Washington,
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According to The Guardian’s linked item, Why did Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene leave the Republican party? | Geoffrey Kabaservice, Disillusioned America firsters, like Carson and Greene, are angry at Trump’s foreign interventions, may sit out the midterm elections Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and former Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene – once among Donald Trump ’s most prominent champions – announced recently that they have left the Republican party. Both rightwing superstars had feuded with the president throughout his second term, but their split was provoked by Trump’s war with Iran and what they viewed as his elevation of foreign affairs over domestic concerns like inflation and high gas prices. Although both have said that they will not support Democrats, their defection points to serious divisions within the Republican party that could weaken its prospects in the midterm elections and beyond. Geoffrey Kabaservice is the director of political studies at the Niskanen Center in Washington,
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