Did Marjorie Taylor Greene have "battered wife" syndrome? Or did she cheat on her political husband?
Your mileage may vary on the rupture with Donald Trump, but the divorce will be final on January 5th:
GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she will resign from Congress at the start of next year, a shocking move by the Georgia firebrand whose once close relationship with President Donald Trump imploded earlier this month.
The prominent figure in the MAGA movement said she will step down on Jan. 5, 2026. Greene made the announcement in a social-media post late Friday.
Trump recently disowned Greene politically and offered to back a primary challenger against her in her rural conservative district next year.
In a statement, Greene said she did “not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms.” Citing the personal toll on her since first being elected to Congress in 2020, she said: “I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better.”
"Battered wife"? Child, please. Drama much?
If anything, Greene had held a rather privileged position in the MAGA movement, at least until this year. What went wrong? Trump and Greene had a rather fruitful 'marriage' for the past four-plus years. Greene had been one of the most outspoken of the MAGA contingent on Capitol Hill, and the two seemed politically inseparable ... until Greene developed ambitions for the Senate. Greene wanted to run against Jon Ossoff in the midterms next year when the incumbent Democrat will defend his one-term seat.
Trump must have learned his lesson on running hard-MAGA candidates statewide in places like Georgia, after the Herschel Walker disaster (and Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania). The president's political team put the kibosh on the idea six months ago:
President Trump’s political team commissioned a poll that showed Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene losing a potential race for Senate in Georgia by double-digits, and the president shared the results with Greene in a bid to discourage her from running in 2026, according to people familiar with the matter.
The poll was conducted by Tony Fabrizio, Trump’s longtime pollster, the people said. Trump’s team was determined to keep Greene out of the race to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff because they feared she wouldn’t be competitive, some of the people said.
The poll showed that Greene would lose to Ossoff in a general election by 18 points, according to people familiar with the poll, even as she could win a primary election. ...
Greene said in an X post last week that she wouldn’t be running for the Senate, blaming the “Uniparty.”
Not long after that, Greene began distancing herself from Trump. Greene got so crosswise with the White House on a number of issues that she began getting courted by mainstream media platforms such as The View, which always has room for a Republican apostate. While on the show on November 4, Greene made a point of opposing Trump on several issues, aligning closer to the progressives on some while more to the fringe on one notable point:
Greene also distinguished herself from her party’s chief executive on his stalwart support of Israel and expressed caution about Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smugglers off the coast of South America, though she praised his actions to halt the US-Mexico migrant crisis.
“I don’t believe in regime change. I don’t believe that we should be engaging in war, period. I’m totally against wars,” she said of the Venezuela-focused campaign, after saying she had “full faith and confidence in our great men and women in our military.”
When asked about controversy over neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes appearing on Tucker Carlson’s program, she said, “I’m not antisemitic, but I am critical of the Israeli government.”
Greene, who has called for an extension of Affordable Care Act health insurance subsidies set to expire Dec. 31, also vented about GOP leaders not moving to prevent a spike in premiums next year.
That was when Trump began calling her "Marjorie Traitor Greene" and 'unendorsed' her re-election bid for her House seat. The Trump political team began recruiting a primary challenger, and Greene initially had remained defiant. She seemed to be preparing to either run as a MAGA maverick, but her GA-14 district has a Cook index of R+19 and voted for Trump 68/31 in both 2020 and 2024. Trump's unendorsement basically killed her chances of winning re-election next year.
Still, it's surprising that Green has decided to quit rather than run out the string on her term. Brian Kemp will have to call a special election, which the GOP should be able to hold easily, but it will leave a gap of at least several weeks if not a few months. It could leave Mike Johnson a vote short when the current CR runs out at the end of January. Presumably, Democrats will be less inclined toward obstruction at that point, but ... we'll see.
And where will we see Greene after January 5th? Probably on The View, M-SNOW, and other mainstream media platforms, at least until they get bored with her. Republican apostates only hold their interest for so long.
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