ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced Tuesday that she won’t run for governor in Georgia in 2026, putting an end to her flirtation with the race in a long social media post saying she is turned off by a political “good ole boy” system and alleging that it was endangering Republican control of the state.

Greene chose earlier not to run for Senate under pressure from Republicans who feared she would hand a second term to Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff. But she told reporters she might instead run for governor during a June appearance at the Georgia Republican Party convention in Dalton, where she wore a “Make Georgia Great Again” hat and discussing state issues.

. . . “One day, I might just without the blessing from the good ole boys club or the out-of-state consulting leeches or even without the blessing of my favorite president,” Greene wrote. “One day, I might just run purely out of the blessing of the wonderful people of Georgia, my family and friends, but it won’t be in 2026.”

. . . In her social media post, she alleged that a “very established ‘Men Only’ Republican firm is unfortunately overseeing the slow slide from red to blue” and that self interest is blocking the GOP from addressing real issues.

  • spongebue@lemmy.world
    38·
    4 days ago

    Basically, she knows (or was told) that she can only win in a district with constituents as batshit crazy as she is. In a state that has managed to collectively vote blue in other races, especially when there’s a runoff, she’ll go the way of Kelly Loeffler

    • Optional@lemmy.worldOP
      13·
      4 days ago

      I would genuinely love to believe that, but given *gestures to everything* I wouldn’t be shocked if she were to win. On the plus side, she’d be out of federal politics at least.

      • Lasherz@lemmy.worldM
        62·
        4 days ago

        I’m kinda of the mindset that Georgia can have her. They want idiocracy so bad only because they’ve only experienced “obvious to aware people” levels of it. Let them experience the real deal stupid ass politics they always gesture towards as a solution.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    4 days ago

    Stop teasing us America … we know what bat shit crazy politics you’re capable of.

    I won’t believe she’s out of politics until I see her out of politics.

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        … and considering the state of US politics, even if that were to actually happen, there would still be a part of me that wouldn’t be surprised if she came back anyway.

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          a stake through the heart usually takes care of most forms of undead.

          wonder if the pope would lend us some holy water, just in case.