Romney says GOP must distance from 'wacky weeds' like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Sen. Mitt Romney said Tuesday that his party should rid itself of lawmakers like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., as House GOP leaders face pressure from their Senate colleagues to figure out a way to handle the audacious freshman congresswoman.  

"I think we should have nothing to do with Marjorie Taylor Greene, and think we should repudiate the things she said and move away from her," Romney, R-Utah, told reporters Tuesday. 

"Our big tent is not large enough to both accommodate conservatives and kooks," he continued. "It's important for us to separate ourselves from the people that are the wacky weeds."

Greene, a Trump loyalist who in the past has expressed support for QAnon, poses a growing headache for a GOP looking to distance itself from President Trump’s unproven election fraud claims and the Jan. 6 riot that followed. 

Greene, 46, won the seat in Georgia’s 14th congressional district last November, running unopposed following the late withdrawal of Democratic opponent Kevin Van Ausdal.

Greene disavowed the QAnon conspiracy in an interview with Fox News last summer, but in old social media posts she’s also alleged that the 2018 Parkland School shooting that killed 17 students in Florida was "staged" and that the 9/11 attacks were a hoax. She has also "liked" social media posts that called for violence against prominent Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.