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Feb 2021
27m 6s

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “loony lies”

Vox
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Vox’s Aaron Rupar explains why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has likened a fellow Republican’s views to cancer. And New York magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi explores what lawmakers peddling conspiracy theories means for the future of the GOP.

Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.

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