Opinion: Marjorie Taylor Greene botches the explanation
On the day after Republicans lost pivotal races in Kentucky, Ohio and Virginia last week, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene offered a diagnosis for her party’s ills. “There’s multiple problems,” the Georgia representative said to CNN’s Manu Raju. “One of them being that I think Republicans are weak. They never come through on the promises that they give to their voters.”
Actually, that is the opposite of the problem Republicans currently face. When Donald Trump ran for president in 2016, he promised he would appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.
And he was true to his word. Mexico didn’t pay for the wall, but Trump did nominate three hard-right conservatives who were instrumental in tossing out Roe in June 2022.
The problem for Republicans is that the Supreme Court’s action was hugely unpopular: roughly two-thirds of Americans disapproved of the move, and voters have made that apparent, even in red states. On Tuesday, Ohio voters passed an amendment to the state constitution that guarantees abortion rights.
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