It seems much of Georgia GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s base of support is outside her district.
A Georgia publication called the Rome News-Tribune found just six donations listed in Greene’s campaign totals throughout the first three months of this year that were actually from individuals residing in her district. The donations topped out at $1,000, while some totaled much less. Not all donations given to federal campaigns have identifying details attached that would allow such a determination to be made, but among those that were included in such categories, half a dozen donations from hundreds of thousands of people certainly don’t constitute an overwhelming show of support! (In general, it’s donations that either individually pass $200 or when added to the donor’s other support pass $200 that are reported as what are known as itemized donations, which have identifying details included. Campaigns make these details available in filings to the federal entity known as the Federal Election Commission.)
Greene, who’s since been made a member of the House Oversight Committee after losing her roles on committees in the last Congress following antagonistic remarks, did face a general election challenger last year, but her district as it stood still leaned heavily towards the Republicans, and she sailed to another term. She’d also faced challenges before the 2022 election over whether she was Constitutionally eligible to even run again because of her connections to what happened on January 6, but those disputes also proved unsuccessful — even as it came out she’d at least suggested the idea before Biden’s inauguration of martial law, though in the communications with Mark Meadows where she did so, she somewhat distanced herself from the notion.
Greene so far has no declared challengers for her next run for office, unlike fellow far-right member of the House Lauren Boebert of Colorado, whose Democratic opponent in the 2022 general election is challenging her again. That contender, former city council member Adam Frisch, came startlingly close to a 2022 win, finishing a little over 500 votes behind the incumbent out of hundreds of thousands cast across the district.
