Republicans in Georgia are worried QAnon congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene could end up becoming the face of the Republican Party not just nationally but in the state as well, and that would be disastrous for the party.
In the Trump era, Georgia Republicans lost two Senate seats in the January runoff elections after losing the presidential election in November because the once reliable Republican suburbs in metro Atlanta moved away from the party as Republicans embraced Donald Trump.
Efforts to win back centrists and more moderate Republicans are being thwarted by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. According to Politico, Georgia Republicans now worry that Greene will emerge as the face of the GOP, tainting the entire ticket with a stamp of conspiracy theory and extremism in the run-up to the 2022 midterms.
“If you have any common sense, you know she’s an anchor on the party. She is weighing us down,” Gabriel Sterling a top Georgia election official who debunked Donald Trump’s claims of widespread voter fraud said.
“Some people are saying maybe [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi will throw her out of Congress,” Sterling continued. “The Democrats would never throw her out. They want her to be the definition of what a Republican is. They’re gonna give her every opportunity to speak and be heard and look crazy — like what came out Wednesday, the Jewish space laser to start fires. I mean, I don’t know how far down the rabbit hole you go.”
Greene has promoted conspiracy theories about the deadly wildfires in California in 2018, saying they were caused by space lasers. She has called school shootings fake and said top Democratic politicians including current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should be executed for treason.
And she does not appear to be going anywhere, she said she has raised $1.6 million in the wake of these new scandals and her deeply conservative district in Georgia have rallied around her. Plus, she has the full support of Donald Trump.
