Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene says she won't run for Senate while blasting Dems and fellow Republicans

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a apical House state of President Donald Trump and a MAGA firebrand with a nationalist following, is passing connected a 2026 Senate run.

The three-term blimpish lawmaker who represents a solidly reddish territory successful northwest Georgia, successful a lengthy connection posted to societal media connected Friday night, took purpose astatine Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff, a apical GOP people that Republicans presumption arsenic highly susceptible successful adjacent year's midterm elections.

But Greene saved overmuch of her venom for chap Republicans, galore of whom feared a polarizing run if Taylor Greene became the party's 2026 nominee successful Georgia, and for the instauration of the Senate itself.

"Someone erstwhile said, ‘The Senate is wherever bully ideas spell to die.’ They were right. That’s wherefore I’m not running," Greene wrote arsenic she announced her decision.

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Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, said she won't tally for Senate. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

And Greene argued, "Here’s the hard truth: the Senate doesn’t work. It’s designed to obstruct the volition of the radical and support the Uniparty’s grip connected power. Nearly everything requires 60 votes to pass, and adjacent erstwhile we person a majority, a battalion of Republican Senators ever votes "no" connected the bills that substance most."

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Greene's announcement came 4 days aft two-term Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who was the National Republican Senatorial Committee's apical enlistee successful battleground Georgia, revealed that helium would besides walk connected a Senate bid.

Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia besides said helium would not tally for Senate. (Fox News - Paul Steinhauser)

The fashionable blimpish governor, who is term-limited and prevented from seeking re-election successful 2026, was the GOP's imagination campaigner to instrumentality connected Ossoff, arsenic Republicans purpose to grow their 53-47 Senate bulk successful adjacent year's elections.

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Greene, successful her statement, claimed, "Beating Jon Ossoff? That would beryllium easy. He’s a silver-spoon progressive who’s ne'er held a existent occupation oregon disquieted astir putting a extortion implicit his family’s head."

"So, Jon Ossoff, you tin halt with the fundraising emails and run ads claiming I’m your opponent. I’m not running," she added.

Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., speaks during an interrogation astatine Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Saturday, April 26, 2025, successful Marietta, Georgia. The first-term Democrat is moving for re-election successful the 2026 midterms. (AP)

While criticizing Ossoff, Greene turned up the measurement connected her ain party, including "the aforesaid elites who scoffed astatine maine erstwhile I archetypal ran for Congress successful 2020."

"Most elected Republicans, propped up by consultants and affluent donors, neglect to present connected their run promises. Why? Because their donors and handlers don’t privation change. They privation to support their ain interests, not yours," Greene charged.

She took purpose astatine "the Republicans who spot Trump arsenic a velocity bump," and argued that "polling has go truthful dishonest that astir radical hardly wage attraction to it anymore. Voters are sick of the consultants who support getting affluent whether we triumph oregon lose."

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Greene described herself arsenic "effective, fearless, and relentless, not due to the fact that I service the Republican Party, but due to the fact that I service the American people."

But she added that "I won’t combat for a squad that refuses to win, that protects its weakest players, and that undermines the precise radical it’s expected to serve… To the elite retreaters, the consultants, and the establishment: see this your warning."

In the aftermath of Kemp's announcement, GOP Rep.Buddy Carter, who represents coastal Georgia, launched a Senate run this week. Other Georgia Republicans expressing involvement successful moving are Reps. Mike Collins and Rich McCormick, and authorities Insurance Commissioner John King.