Democrat Rep Invites Marjorie Taylor Greene To Switch Parties In Bizarre ‘Vast Tent’ Pitch
Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin said Sunday that his party has “room” for Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to make the change.
Raskin, the top Democrat on the powerful House Judiciary Committee, cast his party as a “big tent” in pleading for the arch-conservative Georgia lawmaker to jump ship, during an impassioned speech at the “Blue Bash Brunch,” a fundraiser in South Florida hosted by the Miami-Dade Democratic Party. The Maryland congressman then suggested that Democrats are the true “conservative” party and that Republicans are more “authoritarians.”
“We are a big tent,” Raskin said in remarks referring to the Democratic Party. “We need to form a big, big tent. I say this is the party that has room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come. We have room for everyone who wants to defend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights today.” (RELATED: Jamie Raskin Paints a Rosy Picture of ‘No Kings’ Protests, Ignores Death Threats Against Trump, Stephen Miller)
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🚨 JUST IN: Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) invites Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to the DEMOCRATIC PARTY
“I say this is a party that has room for Marjorie Taylor Greene, if she wants to come!”
“Anyone who wants to defend the Constitution!” »pic.twitter.com/zd8nRo3TZq
– Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 17, 2025
The Democratic lawmaker then discussed a conversation he had with South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy, with whom he served in the House for a single term.
“Gowdy, he told me on the way out, he said, ‘Raskin, you’re not a bad guy. The problem with you is you’re a liberal,'” the Democratic lawmaker said.
Raskin said he responded to Gowdy: “You’re absolutely right, I’m a liberal. The heart of that word is ‘liberty.’ And I’m a progressive because the heart of that word is ‘progress.’
“But what I prefer to call myself today is conservative because I want to conserve the land, the air, the water, the climate system, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act,” Raskin said, with his voice growing louder.
“The Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act,” Raskin continued to list things he said he wanted to “keep,” twice mentioning the Voting Rights Act. “Everything this party of authoritarians wants to destroy is everything we are going to preserve and defend in America. We are the party of conservatives, liberals and progressives, all patriots today are in the party of democracy.”
WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 03: U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) speaks during a hearing with the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House office building September 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Raskin notably served as the House’s lead impeachment manager in President Donald Trump’s second impeachment in 2021. Before ascending to the top Democratic spot on the Judiciary Committee in January, he previously served a single term as a ranking member of the House Oversight Committee.
Trump, in an article published Friday in Truth Social, announced he would not endorse Greene for re-election in 2026. He called her “wacky,” a “ranting lunatic” and said she had “gone to the far left,” noting her recent appearance on ABC’s “The View.”
“I understand that wonderful, conservative people are considering prioritizing Marjorie in her Georgia district, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person comes along, they will have my full and unwavering support,” the president added in his message.
The next day, Trump continued to target the congresswoman, who until this year was widely considered one of his staunchest allies.
“Light Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green Grass Turns Brown When It Starts to ROT!), betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned left, performed poorly on the pathetic view, and became the RINO. [Republican in name only] that we all know she always has been,” Trump wrote in a Saturday Truth Social article.
During an interview Sunday with CNN’s Dana Bash, Greene, who represents a heavily Republican district in northwest Georgia, said she still supports Trump and his administration despite the president’s withdrawal of support. However, in the same interview, she blasted the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and its decision to meet with the Syrian president, a former al-Qaeda commander, on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the US Marine Corps.
Greene is a former member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which expelled her from its ranks in 2023.
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