A moderate Florida House Democrat said Sunday that there is “no way” his party is going to help Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) if the Georgia republican forces a vote to vacate the speakership for the second time this term.
During an appearance Sunday, April 28, on MSNBC’s “The Weekend,” Rep. Jared Moskowitz, the Florida Democrat, said Ms. Greene is unlikely to get support from Democrats this time, after they helped a handful of Republicans oust former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in October.
“I mean, look, obviously we’ll wait for our Leader Jeffries to figure out that solution,” Mr. Moskowitz said in response to what he thought about the effort to remove Mr. Johnson. “But I’ve said this before, and I think there are other members who feel the same way: The idea of allowing Marjorie Taylor Greene, someone who literally, you know, would let the world burn, you know, with her isolationist foreign policy, who has talked about states seceding from the union, right?…