Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene denied a report that her resolution to resign from Congress in January is pushed by a need to enter the 2028 presidential race.
“I’m not running for President and never said I wanted to and have only laughed about it when anyone would mention it,” she wrote in a lengthy X post on Sunday.
The Georgia Republican introduced on Friday that she gained’t search reelection and can depart her seat in January, amid a public falling out along with her longtime ally President Donald Trump. She had stated for weeks Trump is simply too centered on overseas coverage and never doing sufficient together with his home agenda. Greene additionally grew to become among the many most vocal critics of the president’s dealing with of the Jeffrey Epstein case recordsdata.
Trump, in flip, referred to as Greene a “traitor” and stated he’d assist a GOP problem to her House seat subsequent yr.
It comes as Greene has pivoted away from the Republican Party extra broadly not too long ago, criticizing the GOP on quite a few fronts, together with the occasion’s dealing with of the federal government shutdown.
Greene included in her Sunday publish a screenshot of a TIME report from Saturday that stated she has privately instructed allies that she has thought-about operating for president in 2028. The TIME article stated House Republicans acquainted with Greene’s pondering suspect her potential candidacy could possibly be “capable of siphoning off votes from the GOP nominee, positioning her to leverage that political capital into a possible role within a future Republican administration.”
Greene wrote in her Sunday publish the article is “a complete lie and they made it up because they can’t even quote the names of the people who they claim said it.”
“Running for President requires traveling all over the country, begging for donations all day everyday to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, arguing political talking points everyday to the point of exhaustion, destroying your health and having no personal life in order to attempt to get enough votes to become President all to go to work into a system that refuses to fix any of America’s problems,” Greene wrote.
She added, “the fact that I’d have to go through all that but would be totally blocked from truly fixing anything is exactly why I would never do it.”
Trump earlier this month claimed Greene was criticizing him as a result of he discouraged her from operating for Senate or governor in Georgia.
In an interview with NCS’s “State of the Union” final week, Greene denied these claims.
“Well, that is absolutely not true,” Greene instructed anchor Dana Bash. “Actually, I never had a conversation at all with the president about running for Senate or running for Georgia, and those were decisions I came to on my own.”