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How Marjorie Taylor Greene Tamped Down a Far-Right Mutiny to Primary Her<!-- wp:html --><p>Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters</p> <p>Rep. <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-booted-from-right-wing-house-freedom-caucus">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> (R-GA) isn’t the GOP’s typical target for a <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-turns-on-marjorie-taylor-greeneand-mtg-hits-back-in-text-to-matt-gaetz">primary threat</a> from the right.</p> <p>And yet, after a number of high-profile disagreements with conservatives—<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kevin-mccarthy-cedes-speakership-to-the-far-right-once-again">Kevin McCarthy’s election to the speakership</a>, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/kevin-mccarthys-gop-critics-say-hell-be-the-one-to-pay-for-the-debt-deal">the debt ceiling,</a> and her <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-booted-from-right-wing-house-freedom-caucus">removal from the Freedom Caucus</a>—Greene has faced an <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-turns-on-marjorie-taylor-greeneand-mtg-hits-back-in-text-to-matt-gaetz">onslaught of criticism</a> from the far right, culminating in calls for her to face a primary challenge.</p> <p>Somehow, though, Greene has managed to tamp down that revolution. This is the story of how.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-marjorie-taylor-greene-tamped-down-a-far-right-mutiny-to-primary-her">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) isn’t the GOP’s typical target for a primary threat from the right.

And yet, after a number of high-profile disagreements with conservatives—Kevin McCarthy’s election to the speakership, the debt ceiling, and her removal from the Freedom Caucus—Greene has faced an onslaught of criticism from the far right, culminating in calls for her to face a primary challenge.

Somehow, though, Greene has managed to tamp down that revolution. This is the story of how.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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