Marjorie Taylor Greene: Endangered Incumbent?

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been a political and moral embarrassment for Republicans ever since she won a primary in the summer of 2020 in Georgia’s 14th congressional district. The conventional wisdom is that Greene’s deep-red district loves her antics, making her politically invulnerable.

But the conventional wisdom is wrong, or at least premature. Greene is still a freshman, and she won her seat as a largely unknown figure in a contested primary two years ago that went to a runoff. Her appeal as a right-wing celebrity who barely does the job of a congresswoman is still unproven. Since 2020, her district has been redrawn in ways that make her position more tenuous. And she has attracted three primary challengers. The strongest and most prominent of those, Jennifer Strahan, can mount a serious threat to Greene so long as her campaign is adequately funded. This is a race worth watching, and Strahan is a candidate worth watching.

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Dan McLaughlin

Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been a political and moral embarrassment for Republicans ever since she won a primary in the summer of 2020 in Georgia’s 14th congressional district. The conventional wisdom is that Greene’s deep-red district loves her antics, making her politically invulnerable.

But the conventional wisdom is wrong, or at least premature. Greene is still a freshman, and she won her seat as a largely unknown figure in a contested primary two years ago that went to a runoff. Her appeal as a right-wing celebrity who barely does the job of a congresswoman is still unproven. Since 2020, her district has been redrawn in ways that make her position more tenuous. And she has attracted three primary challengers. The strongest and most prominent of those, Jennifer Strahan, can mount a serious threat to Greene so long as her campaign is adequately funded. This is a race worth watching, and Strahan is a candidate worth watching.