{"id":16005,"date":"2025-11-24T23:48:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/marjorie-taylor-greene-is-staying-out-of-the-election-to-replace-her\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T23:48:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T23:48:25","slug":"marjorie-taylor-greene-is-staying-out-of-the-election-to-replace-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/marjorie-taylor-greene-is-staying-out-of-the-election-to-replace-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Marjorie Taylor Greene is staying out of the election to replace her"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Marjorie Taylor Greene said she won\u2019t make any endorsement in the special election race to replace her in Congress \u2014 avoiding a potential clash between her preferred candidate and a candidate aligned with President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Greene said in a social media post Monday that she will remain neutral in the special election in Georgia\u2019s 14th Congressional District after she steps away from Congress in January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking ahead towards the Special Election for my Congressional seat, I will not be endorsing anyone out of respect to my district. I truly support the wonderful people of Georgia 14 and want them to pick their Representative,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mtgreenee\/status\/1993081407418118423?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cSo anyone claiming they have my endorsement would not be telling the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her neutrality paves the way for Trump\u2019s allies to elevate a candidate of their choosing in a heavily-Republican district that Greene won in 2024 by 28 points.<\/p>\n<p>In announcing her sudden decision to leave Congress, Greene, who has become estranged from the president, said she was partly inspired to step down to avoid a \u201chateful and hurtful primary\u201d against a Trump-backed candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, following her announcement, <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115593179521083607\" target=\"_blank\">said Greene would have<\/a> \u201cno chance of winning\u201d in a primary against a candidate with his endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>The special election won\u2019t be scheduled until Greene leaves her post. Georgia law stipulates the election must occur at least 30 days after it\u2019s been ordered. A Georgia Republican official told Atlanta News First the special election will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2025\/11\/22\/metro-atlanta-gop-chair-march-special-election-likely-fill-marjorie-taylor-greenes-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\">likely occur in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marjorie Taylor Greene said she won\u2019t make any endorsement in the special election race to replace her in Congress \u2014 avoiding a potential clash between her preferred candidate and a candidate aligned with President Donald Trump. Greene said in a social media post Monday that she will remain neutral in the special election in Georgia\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}