U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Friday she won’t challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia in next year’s midterms, delivering relief for some Republicans who worry she’s too divisive to win.
In a lengthy post on the social media platform X, Greene disputed GOP donors and consultants who fear she would turn off the moderate Republicans and independents needed to beat Ossoff. But Greene said she doesn’t want to serve in a Senate that “doesn’t work” and that she said is dominated by lawmakers hostile to grassroots Trump supporters and unwilling to shake up the status quo.
“If I’m going to fight for a team, it will only be a team willing to lay it all on the line to save this country,” she wrote.
She’s gunning for a cabinet position or some shit
We shouldn’t have allowed her to thaw.
She’s made a lottery sized fortune and her and all her brood are set for life. She’s gonna take her pipe bombs and go home.
Bingo. She’s won three terms, so six years of being a rep, which means she gets the retirement and healthcare (the federal option, which she would pay the premiums for, in fairness) for life. The formula calculates out somewhere between $17-20k once she turns 62 in another nine years. Not a lot, but a very decent chunk to add to everything else.
Add in everything from the typical republican grifts and why would she bother anymore?
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RL30631
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/good-question-congress-benefits/She recently made $20 million. She gets to participate in insider trading and she gets mountains of cash thrown at her every time she does something performative, like jeering at Biden during the SOTUA.
Reading between the lines, I assume her polling is bedrock.
55% of Georgia lives in Atlanta - she can’t win statewide without doing at least OK among the people she’s spent the last 4 years denigrating. Her kind of politics really only plays in the specific rural district she represents.
I assumed she was replacing Headgeseth
This isn’t for re-election for her existing seat, but whether she should run for representing all of Georgia rather than just one district. My understanding is that she had to move to the congressional district that she was in to get sufficient support to win a House seat.
checks Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene
Having originally announced her intention to run in Georgia’s 7th congressional district,[47] Greene instead began her campaign in the 6th district, where she resided, on June 4, 2019.[58][b] She stated her commitment to balance the federal budget and restrain Congress from using its constitutional power to spend new money into existence, adding: “If we look at our country as our household, we’re going to go under foreclosure because we’re overspending.”[58] Greene also criticized her expected primary opponent, former U.S. representative Karen Handel, for supporting large omnibus spending bills and a series of electoral losses: “She’s lost seven races in her entire political career… She steps down from seats that she does win so she can campaign for something else. Basically I would call her [a] professional campaigner, but she loses.”[58]
On December 13, 2019, Greene announced that she was shifting her campaign to the 14th district after incumbent Tom Graves announced he would not run for reelection there.[59] The district includes much of Northwest Georgia, stretching from the Georgia side of the Chattanooga metropolitan area to the exurbs of Atlanta. Members of the House are constitutionally required to live in the state they represent, but not necessarily in the same congressional district.
Greene was considered an overwhelming favorite to win the seat in the general election, as the 14th district typically votes heavily Republican.[86] In 2017, the Cook Political Report ranked the district the 10th-most Republican in the country.[87]
She just needs to go away.
They ALL need to go away.
She has her little slice of shit populated by morons and scum carved out. She’s never going to leave that seat.
One time someone called her “Lee Corso” in a wig and now i can only see that.
It’s not wrong but I feel bad for Lee being associated with her
Yeah lees a cool guy
Holy shit, you aren’t kidding.
It’s not that she’s too divisive. It’s just, she’s too unqualified.
Por que no los dos?
Don’t let the door hit ya.
BYE FELICIA!
Kemp declined to run too? They’re planning something more awful.
The way she words some of this makes it sound like she wants a NEW senate created, one “that works”.
Seems like she’s hoping for the MAGA coup to be at least nearing completion by then. Why spend resources on campaigning when you expect your opponents to be declared enemies of the state and arrested by the time “elections” come around?
