Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will not run for Georgia governor next year, she said Tuesday, after already ruling out a campaign for the Senate earlier this year.
But that’s not to say she doesn’t think she’d win.
“If I was running for governor the entire world would know it because I would be all over the state of Georgia campaigning, I would have ads running, I would be raising scary amounts of money, and I would literally clear the field,” the Republican said Tuesday in a post on X.
Instead, Greene assailed Georgia’s GOP leadership and chalked up her decision to remain in the House to what she termed “a very established ‘men only’ Republican firm” that is overseeing the state’s “slow slide from red to blue.”
“The ‘I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine’ wheeling and dealing at the hunting clubs and country clubs does not reflect the sentiment and issues of the vast majority of Georgia voters,” she charged.
The three-term lawmaker, a bombastic MAGA Republican and ally to President Donald Trump, sits on the powerful House Oversight Committee and is chair of the chamber’s DOGE subcommittee.
But despite long enjoying a warm relationship with Trump, Greene has in recent weeks lashed out at elements of his leadership, slamming the president’s executive order on artificial intelligence and cautioning him that “dangling bits of red meat no longer satisfies” in the Jeffrey Epstein case.
Brian Kemp, the state’s popular Republican governor, is term limited. Greene’s decision leaves Burt Jones, the state’s lieutenant governor, and Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr as the two major Republican candidates battling for their party’s nomination. Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, state Sen. Jason Esteves and state Rep. Derrick Jackson are running on the Democratic side.
But Greene did tease a future statewide campaign.
“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,” Greene said.
