MP Marjorie Taylor Green, who made a name for herself in Washington by pushing hard-line conspiracy theories, easily won her party’s nomination for Congress on Tuesday. The Associated Press announced the race just over an hour after polls closed. With 99% of the vote counted, Green had 69% of the vote.
Voters chose Green, known by her initials, MTG, over her Republicans, including health chief executive Jennifer Strahan. Strahan received 17% of the vote on Tuesday.
Green will face a Democratic contender in the heavily Republican 14th Congressional District, which includes the Atlanta area and rural northwestern Georgia.
Attempts to remove Green from the ballot for her role in former President Donald Trump’s efforts to undo her loss in the 2020 election, but a U.S. judge ruled that Green’s opponents did not have enough evidence to prove she was ” participated in an uprising. “
Representative Marjorie Taylor Green is campaigning in Plainville, Georgia, on Friday. (Joe Redl / Getty Images)
In just two years in Washington, Green caused a number of scandals, some of which he apologized for.
Last May, she cited the Holocaust, condemning a decision by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to require lawmakers to wear masks. The following month, in the face of a resolution condemning her colleagues in the House, Green visited the Holocaust Memorial Museum in the United States and later apologized for comparing mask mandates to Nazi Germany.
Green has put forward a number of other conspiracy theories, some of which are rooted in anti-Semitism, such as her baseless assumption that Jewish Kabbalah used a space laser to cause wildfires in California. But she also abandoned conspiracy theories she had previously promoted, including 9/11 and school shootings.
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