GOP governor calls MTG's rhetoric 'evil'

Samuel Schaffer

February 20, 05:37 PM February 20, 05:42 PM

Gov. Spencer Cox (R-UT) fired back at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) calls for a "national divorce" Monday, calling the idea "evil."

Greene, one of the GOP's more outspoken members, spent her Presidents Day calling for a "national divorce" on Twitter.

She wrote that red and blue states needed to separate and that the national government needed to be condensed.

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"This rhetoric is destructive and wrong and—honestly—evil," Cox wrote on Twitter in response to Greene. "We don’t need a divorce, we need marriage counseling."

The Utah governor went on to advocate the healthy conflict he said was critical to the founding of the nation.

Greene has been known for her controversial statements in the past, but the GOP firebrand has recently gained more legitimacy in the Republican-majority House with committee assignments.

The Georgia congresswoman sits on the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability.

"We need elected leaders that don’t profit by tearing us apart," Cox continued in his tweet. "Healthy conflict was critical to our nation’s founding and survival."