Controversial Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene confused critics and possibly some fans when she said forcing Americans to drive electric vehicles will increase gasoline prices.
The congresswoman made the bizarre comment this weekend during a speech at Donald Trump’s rally in Las Vegas, where she drew applause that sparked the crowd but also drew widespread criticism online — including from Stephen King.
During the scorching Sunday rally, Greene, 50, told the crowd of die-hard MAGA enthusiasts, “If you think gas prices are high right now, just wait until you’re forced to drive an electric vehicle. America is fed up.”
An outspoken anti-Trump figure, King, in addition to being a prolific best-selling author, also mocked the Georgia Republican’s stance on electric cars, writing, “You can’t make this shit up,” in response to her statement .
As the name suggests, electric vehicles are powered by electricity and not gas.
The controversial Georgia congresswoman spoke at Trump’s Sunday rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she touched on the topic of electric vehicles
While the push for significantly broader EV use is something that the Biden administration has intermittently failed to successfully market, let alone implement, even if they were successful, it is not clear why this will drive down fuel costs for other drivers.
Since he posted it, King’s post has been viewed nearly 1 million times. The post is not the first time King has targeted Greene.
Earlier this spring, King blasted lawmakers for opposing an additional financing package for Ukraine worth about $60 billion.
Greene described the bill’s eventual passage through the Republican-led House of Representatives as “the sellout of America.”
“I think every American in this country should be outraged,” she said at the time.
“There were members of Congress there waving the Ukrainian flag on the floor of the United States House of Representatives while we did nothing to secure our border.”
King, in response, called her “Moscow Marjorie,” a nickname originally given to her by fellow GOP caucus members.
Unfathomably successful fiction author and outspoken Trump critic Stephen King didn’t make his first attack on Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene
A push for significantly broader EV use is something that the Biden administration has intermittently failed to successfully market, let alone implement — but it’s not clear why that effort, even if successful, would impact the would drive up fuel costs for other drivers
Before Trump headed to his huge rally in Vegas on Sunday, which took place during a heat wave that sent temperatures soaring well into the 90s, if not hundreds, Greene compared the former president to Jesus.
Other warm-up acts were just as enthusiastic. One speech said they were there to “worship” on behalf of the goal of returning Trump to high office.
Trump toured the American West late last week, stopping in Arizona, California and Nevada – two of which are battleground states he lost in 2020. Biden, who trails Trump by just a few points in most swing states, won Nevada in 2020 by just 34,000 votes.
The 2022 midterm elections were more evidence that Nevada will be fiercely competitive. Voters elected a Republican governor but blocked a Republican challenger from winning the seat of Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.
Trump claimed that winning Nevada would mean he would win the entire election during his rally on Sunday. Even if he wins Nevada, the state alone won’t be enough to give him the Electoral College. The ex-president who lost the state by fewer than 34,000 votes in 2020 would also need to flip several other battleground states to pull off a victory in November
During the big fundraising weekend, Trump’s team reported raising some $33 million — adding to the already huge sums that flowed into campaign coffers in the immediate aftermath of Trump’s 34-case conviction by a Manhattan jury earlier this year. month.
Trump’s visit to Vegas comes amid a major launch of his campaign to keep Latino voters away from the Democratic party.
On the same day as his rally, Team Trump announced the launch of “Latino Americans for Trump,” a coalition of key MAGA-minded Latinos from across the country.