Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) beat out five primary challengers to defend her seat in Congress on Tuesday, the Associated Press has projected.
Greene, who represents Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, became a controversial figure during her first term in Congress over her support for outlandish conspiracy theories, including QAnon and Pizzagate.
The Democrat-led House stripped Greene of her committee assignments last year, accusing her of sharing violent and hateful conspiracies. Twitter also permanently banned Greene’s personal Twitter account in January for spreading Covid-19 misinformation.
In February, she spoke at a white-nationalist conference organized by Nick Fuentes, whom the Justice Department has labeled a white supremacist. When Fuentes introduced Greene, he told the audience, “Now they’re going on about Russia and Vladimir Putin is Hitler — they say that’s not a good thing,” before asking the crowd to “give a round of applause for Russia.” Attendees responded by chanting, “Putin! Putin!” to which Fuentes replied, “Absolutely.”
Greene’s win comes after five voters in her district brought a lawsuit seeking to prevent her from running for reelection, alleging that she had “given aid and comfort” to people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The plaintiffs argued that Greene was disqualified from running under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which bans from public office individuals who “have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same or given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof.”
However, a judge ruled that Greene could not be barred from running for Congress for her actions on January 6.
Greene has been disavowed by both The Value in Electing Women (VIEW) PAC, which has worked since 1997 to increase the number of Republican women in Congress, as well as the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Despite her controversial standing, Greene fundraised a massive amount; her reelection campaign pulled in $9.2 million and spent $6.6 million, while her closest challenger, Jennifer Strahan, fundraised just under $400,000.
Other primary challengers included retired physician Charles Lutin, engineer James Haygood, Marine Corps veteran Seth Synstelien and logistics executive Eric Cunningham.
She will face off against the winner of tonight’s three-way Democratic primary in the general election in November. However, the district, which covers part of northwest Georgia from metro Atlanta to the state line at Chattanooga, Tenn., is unlikely to be competitive given that it has a Cook Partisan Voting Index score of “R+27”.