Mitch McConnell Booed at Republican Town Hall

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was booed during a town hall hosted by Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Greene, a staunch conservative and close ally to former President Donald Trump, has been increasingly critical of GOP leadership in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, as they have worked with Democrats on recent bipartisan bills to fund the government. She has called for Republican leaders to take more aggressive action on conservative priorities, including border security and impeaching President Joe Biden.

McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, has long faced skepticism from more Trump-aligned conservatives over his stance on issues such as the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, which he has referred to as a "violent insurrection."

During a town hall in Rome, Georgia, on April 8, Greene criticized Speaker of the House Mike Johnson for working with Senate leaders, referring to both McConnell and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat.

Greene asked her audience, "Do you guys like Mitch McConnell?" Her question prompted boos from the crowd.

"Is Mitch McConnell the leader in Washington that our Republican speaker should be listening to? No, absolutely not," Greene said.

Newsweek has contacted Greene's and McConnell's offices for comment via email.

McConnell announced in February that he planned to step down from his position as Senate GOP leader at the end of the year, delivering a victory to MAGA Republicans who now have an opportunity to elect someone more closely aligned with Trump's vision of the Republican Party.

McConnell has also broken from Trump and his allies over claims that the 2020 election was stolen via widespread voter fraud. McConnell said "very little" election fraud occurs in the U.S. while speaking to reporters in 2022, criticizing Trump for "trying to prevent the orderly transfer of power" after his defeat.

He has also said he believed the former president "provoked" the January 6 riot, in which a group of Trump supporters violently protested the 2020 election results. Still, McConnell has endorsed Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, as he is now the presumptive Republican nominee.

Greene, who has been critical of McConnell in the past, referred to him as "Biden's b****" in 2021. And in January 2023, she wrote on X, formerly Twitter: "MAGA has been demanding a head on a platter, but it shouldn't be McCarthy, it should be McConnell. McConnell did more than anyone to deliver Biden's agenda. Not McCarthy, he tried to stop it. The next RNC chair should do the bidding of the base and hold McConnell accountable."