Washington — GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia refuted stories that she’s planning to run for president on Sunday, days after she introduced plans to go away Congress amid a break with President Trump.
“I am not working for President and by no means stated I wished to and have solely laughed about it when anybody would point out it,” Greene stated in a put up on X.
Greene introduced Friday that she is going to resign from Congress in January, expressing frustration along with her get together whereas pointing to her dramatic break with Mr. Trump, who pulled his assist from Greene per week earlier. Her newest feedback denying a presidential bid got here in response to an article from Time, which reported that the Georgia Republican has thought-about working for president within the 2028 cycle. Greene beforehand pushed again on reporting from NOTUS that she was telling folks she needs to run for president as nicely.
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“Operating for President requires touring all around the nation, begging for donations all day on a regular basis to lift a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars}, arguing political speaking factors on a regular basis to the purpose of exhaustion, destroying your well being and having no private life in an effort to try and get sufficient votes to turn out to be President all to go to work right into a system that refuses to repair any of America’s issues,” Greene stated Sunday. “The truth that I would must undergo all that however could be completely blocked from actually fixing something is precisely why I might by no means do it.”
Greene stated she is “not motivated by energy and titles,” whereas arguing that the “Political Industrial Complicated has destroyed our nation and can by no means enable somebody like me otherwise you to rise to energy and really remedy the crises that plague all of us.”
The Georgia Republican’s break up with the president, and shock announcement that she plans to go away Congress, got here after she’d grown more and more vocal in current months about her opposition to how Republican leaders in Congress are dealing with well being care, affordability and the federal government shutdown. In the meantime, she remained stalwart in her assist for releasing the Epstein recordsdata, whilst Republicans confronted strain to capitulate.
For Greene, a dependable ally of Mr. Trump who made a reputation for herself since coming to Congress in 2021 as a conservative rabble rouser, the break along with her get together marked a big and uncharacteristic flip, sparking hypothesis that she could possibly be setting herself up for a presidential bid.
