Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, a Republican fire truck and ally of President Donald Trump, has taken over Georgia’s Senate race.
“I’m not running,” she said. Long social media posts On Friday, she cited her complaints with the Senate as the main reason she didn’t want to run. “Even if there are a few good Republicans in the Senate, nothing will change.”
The names of Georgia representatives for the second term were later floating as Republican candidates. Republican mass governor Brian Kemp has passed This week a bid to take over Senator John Ossoff. The decision for the greens was a big draw in the race. Democrats save the possibilities She took part in a contest in one of the country’s most swinging swing states.
Trump carried Georgia about 2 percent points last year after Joe Biden became the first Democratic presidential candidate to win a state since former President Bill Clinton in 1992.
As she continued her run, Greene was a prolific fundraiser and a beloved conservative media, but still claimed that she could win.
“When I met the NRSC a few weeks ago, they told me that they showed their internal vote that Republicans could beat Ossov,” she said in her post. “But now they’re pushing for just 800 public voters who claim that only certain Republicans can win.”
The candid Magazine star’s long statement left the door open for another statewide run. She did not rule out the possibility that the governor would run for Kemp’s replacement, where he is limited.
If she decides to undertake a governor’s bid, many questions remained that emerged in her potential Senate run. Georgia has undergone demographic changes and has become a purple nation in recent years, with two democratic senators now Ossov and Rafael Warnock.
Republicans control both the governor’s mansion and the state’s legislature room, but while Trump won in 2024, the state is not considered a Maga home.
Georgia Republicans supported the president in recent elections, including Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger who rounded out key Trump-backed challengers after Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger refused to make an effort to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. They were able to cruise the re-election victory in the general election.
Raffensperger has not signalled whether he plans to run again for offices across the state, but if he decides to run to challenge Kemp’s success or Ossov in his seat, he could be a scary candidate.
