MTG Blasts Rep. Nancy Mace for Saying She Won’t Support Steve Scalise Over White Supremacist Ties

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Thursday, despite saying she is voting for Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, for House Speaker, fired off a series of social media posts blasting Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., for saying she won't cast a Speaker vote for Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., due to his attendance at a "white supremacist conference."

Mace has said that "in good conscience" she cannot support Scalise, who is currently battling blood cancer, as the GOP nominee for House Speaker after she said he had"compared himself to David Duke," a former Louisiana representative, known for being a white supremacist and member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Greene argues that Scalise is "not" a white supremacist.

"I’m supporting Jim Jordan for Speaker. I’m not supporting Scalise. I like Steve Scalise, and as I said, I want him to beat cancer, and he should be focused on that," Greene said beginning a five post thread on X. "What I do think is an unfair and quite frankly disgusting attack is members of our conference using Democrat talking points, using the same lines of attack that Democrats use against every single Republican, every single election, every single day, in these halls of Congress to attack Steve. He isn’t a White Supremacist. We all know that. He’s a good man."

Mace's comments same after Scalise was nominated by the Republican conference to be House Speaker, however a number of Republicans have now broken from their original support of Scalise to back Jordan or other members of the House.

Greene accused Mace of using "Democrat BLM [Black Lives Matter] lines to attack a guy for Speaker that more than 100 of our own conference supports, you’re now saying half the conference supports a white supremacist and giving Dems ammunition against half our conference."

The Peach State representative says she is striving for unity within the Republican conference.

"I want a party that’s not always splintered into five factions," Greene wrote in her final post in the thread. "I want a party that’s a single fist so we can knock out the Democrats and save this country."

Scalise has long faced scrutiny over saying he was "David Duke without the baggage" during a speech at an event hosted by a group founded by the former Klu Klux Klan leader, in 2014.

Scalise released a statement saying he regretted his speech.