U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene won't challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia in next year’s midterms.

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.

    • tburkhol@lemmy.world
      40·
      14 hours ago

      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.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      10·
      13 hours ago

      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]