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Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said the Democratic Party would welcome fellow Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., after the conservative congresswoman has become increasingly critical of her party in recent weeks, a comment that elicited boos from the crowd.
Raskin made the comments while speaking at the 2025 “Blue Bash Brunch” Democratic fundraiser in Miami on Sunday, in which he said his party has a big tent that welcomes all “patriots” who would stand up for the Constitution.
“Let me just say a couple more things to you, great Florida Democrats,” Raskin said. “One of them is, we are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent.”
“I say, this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene, if she wants to come over,” Raskin said, to a mixed reaction from the crowd. “We got room for anybody who wants to stand up for the Constitution and for the Bill of Rights today.”
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Rep. Jamie Raskin said his party would welcome Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. (Kent Nishimura/Reuters; Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
The audience booed at the congressman’s suggestion that Greene — a longtime conservative firebrand and staunch supporter of President Donald Trump until their recent falling out — should be brought into the fray.
Greene has stepped up criticism of GOP leadership in recent months, taking aim at the party’s approach to health care and other issues. She has also broken from her party regarding Israel, calling the Jewish State’s military campaign in Gaza a “genocide” and “humanitarian crisis.”
She has also been at odds with Trump and her party’s leaders over her call for the full release of documents related to the case of deceased sex predator Jeffrey Epstein, although the president has since reversed course on his pressure campaign to stop the release after House lawmakers secured enough support to force a full vote on a…
