Des Moines, Iowa — Republicans from Georgia and Florida who held an “America First” rally in Des Moines Thursday night say they’ll be back to campaign for Donald Trump’s return to the White House.
Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz also suggested if Republicans retake the majority in the U.S. House in the 2022 election, Trump should be returned to power as House Speaker.
Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene told the Des Moines crowd there’s a civil war in the GOP pitting Trump supporters like her against the GOP’s old guard.
Greene said she planed to submit articles of impeachment against President Biden.
Greene vowed to support primary opponents of fellow Republicans like Chuck Grassley who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure bill that cleared the Senate this month and who vote for the plan in the U.S. House. Greene also cautioned against a project Republican Senator Joni Ernst and Republican Governor Kim Reynolds are leading that would see Afghan refugees with Special Immigrant Visas resettled in Iowa.
Iowa Democrats say Greene and Gaetz are radical Republicans who fit right in with the Iowa GOP. Iowa Senate Democratic Leader Zach Wahls says Greene and Gaetz peddle dangerous conspiracy theories and should be condemned by Republicans. Greene was suspended from Twitter last week for tweeting what a Twitter spokesman called misleading information about COVID vaccines. None of the Iowa Republicans who hold state or federal office attended last night’s rally.
