Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wins Georgia primary

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene defeated 5 challengers Tuesday in a GOP main race that examined how her conservative Georgia constituents judged her turbulent freshman time period.

Greene, 47, turned a celeb of the Republican Celebration’s far-right fringe along with her election two years in the past as she embraced former President Donald Trump’s false declare that the 2020 election was stolen, and engaged in conspiracy theories in regards to the coronavirus.

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Greene spoke at an occasion organized by a white nationalist the place the gang chanted “Putin!” after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and launched different partisan assaults that critics mentioned promoted racism and violence.

She’s going to face the winner of a three-way Democratic main in northwest Georgia’s 14th District, a seat drawn to offer Republicans an enormous benefit, in November.

Greene remained on the main poll Tuesday in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District after a failed effort to disqualify her by opposing voters. They argued Greene engaged in riot by encouraging the Jan. 6, 2021, riot that disrupted Congress’ certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory. Georgia’s secretary of state and an administrative legislation choose dismissed the claims.

Nonetheless, fellow Republicans refused to offer Greene a free experience to reelection. Although her first time period gained loyal followers, it left others within the GOP embarrassed.

Main the slate of Republicans working to oust Greene within the main was Jennifer Strahan, founding father of a suburban Atlanta well being care advisory agency who pitched herself to voters as a “no-nonsense conservative.”

“This isn’t the time for unserious politicians who simply need to hear themselves speak,” Strahan mentioned in a single marketing campaign advert, with out mentioning Greene by title. In one other she acknowledged bluntly: “Our present U.S. consultant isn’t doing her job.”

Greene was stripped of her committee assignments final 12 months by Home Democrats who accused her of spreading violent and hateful conspiracies. In current months, Greene obtained banned from Twitter for spreading coronavirus misinformation.

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Inexperienced has been largely unrepentant. In a marketing campaign advert posted just lately to her Fb web page, she calls Biden and Democratic Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi “communist Democrats” who “hate America, hate God and hate our lifestyle.”

Greene proved well-liked sufficient that she raised greater than $9 million for her reelection bid, putting her among the many 12 months’s prime fundraisers in Congress, in keeping with the Federal Election Fee. Greene spent greater than $6.6 million earlier than the first.

Strahan’s $391,000 in fundraising trailed far behind Greene however dwarfed that of different Republican contenders — retired doctor Charles Lutin, engineer James Haygood, Marine Corps veteran Seth Synstelien and logistics govt Eric Cunningham.

Spanning a stretch of northwest Georgia from metro Atlanta to the state line at Chattanooga, Tennessee, Greene’s district was drawn to favor Republicans even after state lawmakers barely shifted its boundaries throughout redistricting final 12 months.

Even with the percentages in opposition to them, three Democrats competed for a shot at difficult Greene in November. Military veteran Marcus Flowers led the Democratic subject with greater than $8.1 million raised. He confronted small enterprise proprietor Hollie McCormack and Wendy Davis, a former Rome metropolis commissioner, within the district’s Democratic main.