Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “loony lies”

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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “loony lies”

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Vox’s Aaron Rupar explains why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has likened a fellow Republican’s views to cancer. And New York magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi explores what lawmakers peddling conspiracy theories means for the future of the GOP.
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