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, grew to become a star of the Republican Social gathering’s far-right fringe together 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 concerning the coronavirus.
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene John Bazemore/Related Press, file
She’s going to face the winner of a three-way Democratic main in northwest Georgia’s 14th District, a seat drawn to provide Republicans an enormous benefit, in November.
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.
Greene remained on the first 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 decide dismissed the claims.
Nonetheless, fellow Republicans refused to provide Greene a free trip to reelection. Although her first time period received loyal followers, it left others within the GOP embarrassed.
Main the slate of Republicans operating 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 wish to hear themselves discuss,” Strahan mentioned in a single marketing campaign advert, with out mentioning Greene by title. In one other, she said bluntly: “Our present U.S. consultant isn’t doing her job.”
Greene was stripped of her committee assignments final yr by Home Democrats who accused her of spreading violent and hateful conspiracies. In latest months, Greene acquired banned from Twitter for spreading coronavirus misinformation.
Inexperienced has been largely unrepentant. In a marketing campaign advert posted not too long ago 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, inserting her among the many yr’s prime fundraisers in Congress, in accordance 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 government 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 yr.
Even with the chances 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 homeowners Hollie McCormack and Wendy Davis, a former Rome metropolis commissioner, within the district’s Democratic main.
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