The GOP’s slim House majority took another potential hit after Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) resigned effective January 2025. A special election in her district is an opportunity for a DNC pickup. A few more special elections ahead of the main elections in 2026 could theoretically see the Republicans lose their majority.
MTG said of her resignation, “I have too much self respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms. And in turn, be expected to defend the President against impeachment after he hatefully dumped tens of millions of dollars against me and tried to destroy me. It’s all so absurd and completely unserious. I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better.”
The soap opera that is the U.S. House will be losing one of its leading ladies, and no one is more disappointed than the mainstream media. For five years, reporters ate up the drama that stuck to Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) almost as closely as her out-of-season tan. While the sudden, mid-term departure creates very real headaches for Republicans — and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) in particular — MTG’s exit isn’t all bad news.
Greene, who bled MAGA red, stunned everyone by announcing her resignation this coming January, unleashing a four-page “manifesto” that shames Republicans and the administration for, in her mind, failing to keep their promises to the American people. “No matter which way the political pendulum swings,” she claimed, “Republican or Democrat, nothing ever gets better for the common American man or woman.” Citing everything from the shutdown to the Epstein files and expiring health care subsidies, Greene outlined the flashpoints that led to her very public break with President Trump.