Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said definitively on Friday that she will not enter the U.S. Senate race, as Republicans eye Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff’s seat in the battleground state of Georgia as a crucial pickup to expand their three-seat majority next year.
“Someone once said, ‘The Senate is where good ideas go to die.’ They were right. That’s why I’m not running,” Greene wrote in a post on X.
“I won’t fight for a team that refuses to win, that protects its weakest players, and that undermines the very people it’s supposed to serve,” she added.
Greene’s announcement comes a day after another Trump ally, Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., announced his candidacy for the Senate, making him the first major Republican candidate to challenge Ossoff.
“Even with a few good Republicans in the Senate, nothing changes,” Greene said.
Greene had told reporters on Wednesday that she would be “thinking it over and talking with my family this weekend” about mounting a Senate bid or entering the governor’s race.
“It’s really nice to have options, and I’ll make a decision based on where I think I can be most effective,” she said at the time.
A spokesperson for Greene did not immediately respond to a request for comment about whether Greene had made a decision about the governor’s race.
Republicans, who were wary of Greene, have been looking for an alternative candidate after Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said he wouldn’t enter the Senate race.
Greene maintained in her post that she defeating Ossoff “would be easy,” after earlier this week rebuffing those who doubted she could be elected to the Senate.
“Yeah, they said the same thing about Donald Trump when he ran in 2016 and they said the same thing about him in 2024,” Greene told reporters on Wednesday when she was asked about skeptics who have suggested she doesn’t have a shot at seizing Ossoff’s seat.
Greene was first elected to the House in 2020.
Greene easily won re-election last year, winning 64.4% of the vote in her district in a state that Trump flipped after narrowly losing it to Joe Biden in 2020.
