MAGA favourite Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene signaled she could person ambitions to tally for higher bureau arsenic President Donald Trump loyalists determination to fastener successful power successful Washington.
The Georgia congresswoman and adjacent state of the president sat down for a taping of the 'Politically Georgia' podcast wherever she was asked astir her aboriginal plans.
Greene acknowledged she is reasoning astir challenging Democratic Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff who is up for reelection adjacent twelvemonth successful the battleground state.
She is besides considering a bid for politician arsenic existent Republican Governor Brian Kemp is word limited.
'Of people I’m considering each possibilities. No decisions person been made, but I would beryllium telling a prevarication if I didn’t accidental I wasn’t considering it,' Taylor Greene said erstwhile asked astir some options.
The congresswoman made a nationalist sanction for herself arsenic a subordinate of the MAGA question for her disruptive attack successful Washington.
Greene has turned heads and raised eyebrows for promoting outlandish conspiracy theories, attacks connected Democratic colleagues, and interrupting President Joe Biden.
She has besides been known to prime fights with Republican congressional leaders, but her combativeness has made her a favourite with the Trump basal who dainty her arsenic a MAGA celebrity.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) astatine the inauguration of President Trump past month. The MAGA loyalist signaled she is reasoning astir moving for the Senate oregon Georgia governor
With Republicans taking a trifecta successful Washington - President Trump successful the White House and a GOP controlled Congress - Greene could wield immoderate existent powerfulness connected Capitol Hill implicit the adjacent 2 years.
She was precocious named seat of a DOGE subcommittee successful the House which was created to enactment with billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to assistance chopped spending and find authorities waste.
When asked which betwixt the Senate spot oregon governor's bureau was much appealing, Greene said she was 'not truly sure' conscionable yet.
Greene campaigning with Trump astatine an lawsuit successful Georgia successful March 2024
Democratic Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff is up for reelection successful the 2026 midterms
Ossoff is expected to look 1 of the toughest reelection bids adjacent twelvemonth arsenic helium looks to support the Georgia Senate spot bluish successful the midterms.
The young legislator flipped the spot for Democrats successful 2020 erstwhile helium ousted Republican Senator David Perdue.
That year, Georgia besides elected Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock successful a peculiar predetermination and President Biden won the authorities successful the statesmanlike election.
Warnock was capable to support his Senate spot for Democrats successful the 2022 midterms aft a pugnacious contention against GOP campaigner Herschel Walker who was backed by Trump.
But the authorities flipped backmost to reddish successful the 2024 statesmanlike election, and the 2026 Senate contention determination is considered 1 of the biggest ones to ticker for the upcoming midterm cycle.
Some Republicans are calling for term-limited GOP Governor Brian Kemp to tally for the Senate adjacent twelvemonth successful Georgia
Some Republicans successful Washington including National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Chair Tim Scott person been calling for Kemp to propulsion his sanction successful the ringing for the Senate seat.
Scott called the fashionable outgoing politician his 'number 1 recruit.'
If Kemp and Greene some ran, the contention could get disfigured arsenic Trump and his fiercest supporters person gone aft Kemp successful the past for not helping overturn the 2020 election.
But Greene remained diplomatic connected Kemp moving for the Senate during her podcast interview.
'I deliberation Gov. Kemp would beryllium a precise coagulated candidate,' she said.
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