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b'Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert weren\\u2019t elected to their positions in the House of Representatives by accident. They ran campaigns like everyone else, and won. Given Greene\\u2019s \\u201cnutty\\u201d aka QAnon-supporting and anti-mask-censorship antics in particular since she arrived in Washington, it may be hard for lots of people to understand why. In this bonus members-only episode of The New Abnormal, co-host Molly Jong-Fast sat down with Doctor John Cowan, the Republican surgeon who lost to Greene in her district despite both candidates supporting Donald Trump, to get an idea for what people may have had in mind when casting their ballots for her. \\u201cI think this is why she got elected is because people really felt like these guys are absolutely crazy in Washington DC,\\u201d he explains. \\u201cAnd they are, many of them are, trying to actively destroy the country through their policies and rhetoric and whatnot. And [voters] looked at someone like Marjorie and said, \\u2018we\'ve got the answer to that. You know, she\'s a fighter she\'ll say or do anything.\\u2019\\u201d Essentially, says Molly, she won for the same reasons Trump did. Cowan agrees: \\u201cI think they just thought, well, we\'ve got somebody who\'s literally going to kick it to the government and maybe he can crack that or drain the swamp as he was off to say.\\u201d Then, Molly talks to Gregg Smith, a former Marine and ex-colleague of Erik Prince, who is running against the GOP\\u2019s Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado. He feels that he can and will defeat her. Donald Trump had support out there because \\u201cpeople out here will generally vote against the mainstream,\\u201d but that support has dwindled, and Boebert\\u2019s response to the insurrection is being questioned, he says. But Democrats aren\\u2019t going to win the area by pushing Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders-level ideologies too hard. \\u201cYou\'ve got to address the issues that are important out here.\\u201d That\\u2019s basically what both Cowan and Smith have in common with one another: hope in the voters. \\u201cI do think people eventually will wake up and see that there\'s a lot of darkness there,\\u201d says Cowan. Plus, Smith shares the moment he knew Erik Prince couldn\\u2019t be trusted: \\u201cI never want to see him again.\\u201d

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