President Donald Trump might love Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s loyalty, however even he doesn’t suppose she will be able to win a Senate race in Georgia.
In accordance with Axios, the president is anticipated to huddle quickly with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to see if they will agree on a single Republican to tackle Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff in 2026. And one title each appear wanting to cross off the record is Greene’s.
“The president, like the governor, wants someone who can win,” a White Home adviser informed the outlet.
Regardless of being one in every of Trump’s loudest acolytes in Congress, Greene is seemingly too poisonous for a statewide run. She’s been floating bids for Senate or governor since Kemp is term-limited from operating once more. After Kemp took himself out of the Senate race, Greene informed reporters she’s weighing her choices and insisted that polling reveals she might win statewide.
“The polling shows I can win the governor’s primary or I can win the Senate primary,” she stated earlier this week. “That’s a choice that I can make, and I’ll give it some thought.”
It’s unclear what polling she’s speaking about, although. The newest numbers from the Atlanta Journal-Structure paint a really totally different image: In a hypothetical matchup, Ossoff beats Greene by a whopping 17 proportion factors—54% to 37%. That’s the most important margin in any of the survey’s hypothetical general-election matchups. Amongst independents, 60% stated they’d choose Ossoff. The identical ballot discovered Kemp and Ossoff in a useless warmth.
Which is to say: Greene could be the worst attainable candidate Republicans might put up in Georgia. And even Trump appears to get it.
“The president loves MTG. He doesn’t love her chances in a general,” the Trump adviser admitted to Axios.
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That brutal honesty appears to be sinking in. The report says Greene is “aware of the perception that she could not win a general election.” Good intuition.
Greene is a famous conspiracy theorist. She has falsely asserted that the federal government has used climate weapons to assault Republican areas of the nation. And she or he’s expressed perception in QAnon, the absurd conspiracy that claims varied celebrities and high-profile Democrats are Devil-worshipping pedophiles. To say the very least, she is liable to controversy.
Georgia is Republicans’ greatest shot to flip a Senate seat within the 2026 midterm elections, although Ossoff has been aggressively elevating cash and constructing his statewide model. Democrats are taking part in protection throughout a brutal Senate map, together with in Georgia, and are hoping to carry the road whereas making positive factors within the Home.
However the GOP nonetheless hasn’t discovered its champion. Rep. Buddy Carter jumped into the race on Thursday, although he’s unlikely to get Trump’s backing—Axios notes he’s “not a preferred candidate,” both.
As an alternative, Trump and Kemp are reportedly eyeing three potential challengers: Rep. Brian Jack (a former Trump aide), Small Enterprise Administrator and former Senator Kelly Loeffler (who misplaced her 2021 runoff to Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock), and Rep. Mike Collins.
Collins is reportedly the early favourite. “He lines up on the Venn diagram,” one GOP strategist stated. “He’s at every [Trump] rally. He’s a trucker, so he has a blue-collar business background and would be the firebrand, workhorse candidate.”
Republicans are nervous {that a} weak Senate candidate might tank the entire statewide ticket. In any case, 2026 may even characteristic a governor’s race in Georgia.
With the political winds blowing unpredictably, the occasion is determined to strike the suitable steadiness between electability and MAGA loyalty.
Greene, it seems, fails on each counts. And that’s saying one thing.
