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Trump inspired Marjorie Taylor Greene to run for Senate. She says she’s flattered.- Mrit Extra


WASHINGTON — At a latest rally, former President Donald Trump instructed that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., run for the Senate.

“Marjorie Taylor Greene, you occur to be right here. Would you prefer to run for the Senate? I’ll battle like hell for you, I let you know,” Trump mentioned in Waco, Texas, drawing a smattering of cheers from the group.

Days later, on Capitol Hill, Greene’s eyes lit up when requested about Trump’s proposition.

“I haven’t talked with him about it, nevertheless it was so good of him to say that on the rally!” she informed NBC Information.

Requested if it’s one thing she’d think about, Greene mentioned: “I don’t know. Yeah, I hadn’t considered it.”

The following Senate race in Georgia might be in 2026, when first-term Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff’s seat comes earlier than voters.

Ossoff had a terse response when requested in regards to the prospect of going through Greene: “Anybody’s free to run. I’ll be prepared.”

Greene is a second-term congresswoman who has cultivated a status as a right-wing firebrand and promoted conspiracy theories, which she continued to do in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview on Sunday. Greene has additionally privately signaled curiosity in being Trump’s vice presidential operating mate if he is the nominee in 2024.

She represents a secure GOP district in northern Georgia that’s successfully out of attain for a Democrat. However successful statewide is a really completely different activity in a state that has trended from crimson to purple, voting for President Joe Biden in 2020 and electing three Democrats within the final three U.S. Senate races.

Georgia additionally has a novel system the place candidates must win 50% of the state to be elected — both on the primary poll or in a runoff between the highest two finishers.

Some within the GOP imagine Greene can’t win statewide in Georgia.

“I believe if you happen to put her title on the poll as a Senate candidate, she would have a tough time attending to 50%,” mentioned Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from neighboring South Carolina, who campaigned unsuccessfully for Georgia’s GOP candidates in 2020 and 2022.

“I would favor a brand new mannequin in Georgia,” he laughed. “I’d desire [Republican Gov. Brian] Kemp run. He’d be my No. 1 selection.”

A Georgia-based Republican strategist mentioned bluntly of a Greene Senate candidacy: “It will imply we lose. Badly. She’s a worse statewide candidate than Herschel Walker.”

Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., who knocked off Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., in 2020 and defeated Trump-picked Republican candidate Herschel Walker in 2022, flashed a smile when requested about Trump boosting Greene.

“He has a historical past of selecting Senate candidates in Georgia,” Warnock mentioned. “See how that went the final time.”

Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., the one Home member in Georgia who represents a carefully divided district, expressed no opinion about Greene’s being floated for the Senate.

Requested whether or not he believes she might win statewide, Bishop smiled and mentioned solely: “I wouldn’t vote for her.”


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