Marjorie Taylor Greene will not return to Congress for a second term without facing some opposition from Republicans in her Georgia district, where several challengers are trying to knock her out in the GOP primary.
The congresswoman is favored to win a second term, but her opponents underscore the frustration some in the party have with her focus on extreme rhetoric.
I am worried about the direction of our country. We need a serious representative who wants to do the work, who wants to go to committee hearings, who wants to serve, and who wants to work with colleagues to craft meaningful policy.
GOP detractors say that her antics may have established her nationally, but they are embarrassing her in Georgia's 14th Congressional District. A year into her term, she has been removed from committees for promoting violence towards Democrats. She has drafted articles of impeachment against Joe Biden, promoted baseless voter fraud conspiracies, championed those accused in the Capitol riot, and forfeited much of her paycheck for refusing to wear a mask.
The GOP has made her a martyr for spreading bad information about COVID-19, which got her banned from Facebook, because she is the face of an increasingly extreme and polarizing Republican Party.
When the Silicon Valley monopolists silenced Donald Trump and kicked him off social media, that should raise an alarm bell for all of us.
During a telephone town hall in November, she showed she doesn't change her tone when addressing her constituents, who she asked to weigh in on issues such as vaccine mandates, election audits and the infrastructure law.
She asked the callers to press one if they agreed with her stance that the 13 House Republicans who voted for Biden betrayed their party.
”Lawmakers work for you, I work for you, and so on and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth, and so forth
The anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol was marked by Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz. Carolyn Kaster is an Associated Press photographer.
In the 2020 Republican primary, she beat a neurosurgeon by 14 percentage points and went on to win 75% of the vote in the general election, making her tough to beat now as an incumbent.
Most people in the district think she is great.
I can speak for three or four of them at their meetings that I go to regularly, even though I can't speak for every county in the 14th District. She is loved. The political climate in Georgia has been charged since Donald Trump blamed his 2020 election loss on fraud and the state's two Senate seats flipped to Democrats a year ago.
All she can do now is make her name, Pounds said. She is doing a good job out there in front of the cameras.
Incumbents who win in a big way don't face a lot of opposition from within their parties. A business owner and fitness trainer who rode Trump's coattails into office in 2020 became known as the so-called QAnon congresswoman for her adherence to the bonkers conspiracy theory about a secret group of Democratic pedophiles.
The biggest complaint from anti-Greene Republicans is that she can't effectively represent her constituents without sitting on any committees, which help representatives steer money and resources to their districts.
It is rare for a member to be kicked off a committee because of their criminal past. Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments for making comments about white supremacy that were condemned by both parties. He ended his political career after losing in the Republican primary.
Her detractors think she is headed for the same fate.
Her effectiveness as a member of Congress is her biggest weakness, according to a former Republican Party leader. It is one thing to be able to go to Washington, D.C. and pound your fist and say we are not going to take it. I will stand up for the people. She can't stand up for the people because she can't get anything passed.
Her most active opponents in the GOP primary are a small-business owner and health care executive and a retired physician. The 14th District, which covers a swath of northwest Georgia, has four Democrats and one libertarian running.
According to the Atlanta Jewish Times, Lutin said that he ran as a moderate against Greene because of his reputation as an anti-Semite. California wildfires were caused by a space laser controlled by the Jewish Rothschild family, according to a comment made by Greene.
I am Jewish and cannot abide the thought of Greene serving indefinitely and representing our state in such an intolerable fashion,' said Lutin.
The district doesn't need a representative who is concerned about being a celebrity than pushing back against Biden's agenda, says conservative Michael Strahan.
I will not be running around the country on a media tour, but I will be in the room with the decision-makers.
She said that the district doesn't have a seat at the table and that they don't have an opportunity to push back on liberal and progressive policies.
A request for comment was not responded to by the campaign.
With more than $6 million in the bank as of the last campaign filing deadline, Greene will be nearly impossible to beat. Her opponents are hoping it can be done. According to a recent poll obtained by Jewish Insider, 40% of GOP primary voters would choose Greene, but only 30% would choose Strahan.
Even though she is picking up more Democratic votes in the Atlanta suburbs, redistricting isn't expected to change her election outcome. The district's high school graduation rate and median household income are both below the nation's in Census data from 2019.
She forfeited $90,000 of her $174,000 annual congressional salary because of the mask fines.
The former neurosurgeon said that Greene sets a bad example for conservatives.
She acts in a way that is self-serving, grifting, and playing on people's fears.
Not everyone is plugged into the national news. He said that they spend five minutes a week looking at what Marjorie is up to.
If people started looking under the hood at how she was acting, I think they would realize that maybe Trump can get away with some of that, but our representative doesn't need to go around the country acting the fool.
The article was originally on HuffPost.
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