Wednesday, 30 April 2025

Marjorie Taylor Greene Suggests 2026 Senate Bid If This Individual Declines To Run

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is reportedly considering a run for U.S. Senate in 2026.

According to the Daily Caller, Greene would seriously contemplate entering the race if Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp declines to run.

Kemp is term-limited and cannot run for governor again in 2026.

Greene told the Daily Caller News Foundation she thinks she would “crush” the GOP primary if Kemp opted out of the race.

Per Daily Caller:

Greene’s potential candidacy for incumbent Democratic Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff’s seat would put the conservative congresswoman at the center of one of the most closely watched races of 2026. Republicans are laser-focused on defeating Ossoff, whose narrow victory over former Republican Georgia Sen. David Perdue in a January 2021 runoff election was partly responsible for costing Senate Republicans their majority during the 2020 cycle.

Ossoff is the only Senate Democrat running for reelection in a state that Trump won last November.

Though Kemp is viewed as the party’s top recruit to defeat Ossoff — reflected by recent polling — the Republican primary is “frozen” until the term-limited governor makes a decision about whether to enter the race, a source familiar with the primary contest told the DCNF. Another source who requested anonymity to discuss both potential candidates’ bids said Kemp is likely to indicate whether he is running by Memorial Day.

The governor recently capped off one of the most important legislative fights of his tenure by signing two tort reform bills into law Monday and has been focused on supporting Republican governors through his chairmanship of the Republican Governors Association. The National Republican Senatorial Committee and Senate Majority Leader John Thune have both lobbied Kemp to run.

Greene would have the easiest path to securing the Republican nomination absent Kemp running, one of the sources familiar with Georgia politics said.

Daily Mail reports:

Reps. Mike Collins, Buddy Carter and Rich McCormick are all reportedly interested in hoping in the race, meaning the race could get messy as the House Republicans angle for the coveted Senate seat.

Should she decide to run, Greene would be in the spotlight for one of the nation’s most contentious Senate races, which will likely cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

In 2020, when Ossoff last ran for Senate, the contest ended up costing over $500 million, according to data compiled by OpenSecrets.

And already Ossoff, 38, is raising money to fend off a challenge to his seat.

According to a recent Politico report, the Georgia Democrat already has over $11 million in his war chest over a year and a half out from the 2026 election.

Though MTG’s hopes to run for the upper chamber may be dashed by Kemp as he is the clear favorite should he get in the race.

Multiple polls examining the race have shown that in a head-to-head matchup between Kemp and Ossoff, the governor trounces the Democrat.

A survey from WPA Intelligence for the Club for Growth in January found that Kemp leads Ossoff 46 to 40 with 14 percent of respondents still undecided.


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