Controversial Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene confused critics, and possibly some fans, when she said forcing Americans to drive electric vehicles will raise gas prices.
The congresswoman made the bizarre comment over the weekend while speaking at Donald Trump’s rally in Las Vegas, where she delivered a line of applause that energized the crowd but also drew widespread criticism online, including from Stephen King.
At Sunday’s scorching rally, Greene, 50, told the crowd of die-hard MAGA enthusiasts: ‘If you think gas prices are high now, wait until you’re forced to drive an electric vehicle.’ “America is tired of this.”
King, an openly anti-Trump figure as well as a prolific and successful novelist, mocked the Georgia Republican’s stance on electric vehicles, writing, “You can’t make this crap up,” in response to his statement.
As the name suggests, electric vehicles run on electricity, not gas.
The controversial Georgia congresswoman spoke at Trump’s Sunday rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she touched on electric vehicles.
However, a push toward significantly broader use of electric vehicles is something the Biden administration has intermittently failed to successfully market, let alone implement – even if they were successful, it’s unclear why that would increase costs. of fuel for other drivers.
Since posting it, King’s post has received nearly 1 million views. This post is not the first time King has taken aim at Greene.
Earlier this spring, King sharply criticized the lawmaker for opposing an additional funding package for Ukraine worth about $60 billion.
Greene described the bill’s final passage in the Republican-led House as “the betrayal of America.”
“I think every American in this country should be furious,” he said at the time.
“We had members of Congress waving the Ukrainian flag in the US House of Representatives while we did nothing to secure our border.”
King, in response, called her ‘Moscow Marjorie’, a nickname originally bestowed upon her by her fellow Republican caucus members.
Stephen King, unfathomably successful fiction author and outspoken Trump critic, didn’t take his first swing at Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
A push toward significantly broader use of electric vehicles is something the Biden administration has intermittently failed to successfully market, let alone implement, but it’s unclear why such an effort, even if successful, would increase costs. of fuel for other drivers.
Before Trump attended his massive rally in Las Vegas on Sunday, which occurred during a heat wave that sent temperatures into the 90s, if not 100 degrees, Greene compared the former president to Jesus.
Other preparation acts were equally enthusiastic. One speaker said they were there to “worship” on behalf of the goal of returning Trump to high office.
Trump took a swing through the American West late last week, stopping in Arizona, California and Nevada, two of which are key states he lost in 2020. Biden, who is just a few points behind Trump in most swing states, he won Nevada in 2020 by just 34,000 votes.
The 2022 midterm elections were further proof that Nevada will be a tight race. Voters elected a Republican governor but prevented a Republican rival from reclaiming Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s seat.
Trump claimed at his Sunday rally that winning Nevada would mean winning the entire election. Even if he wins Nevada, the state alone is not enough to win him the Electoral College. The former president who lost the state by fewer than 34,000 votes in 2020 would also have to flip several other battleground states to claim a victory in November.
During the major weekend of fundraising, Trump’s team reported raising about $33 million, adding to the already huge numbers that poured into campaign coffers immediately after Trump’s conviction for 34 charges by a Manhattan jury earlier this month.
Trump’s visit to Las Vegas comes amid a major launch of his campaign to draw Latino voters away from the Democratic Party.
On the same day as their rally, Team Trump announced the launch of ‘Latin Americans for Trump,’ a coalition of prominent MAGA-minded Latinos from across the country.