First-term Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the GOP rebel Washington’s establishment loves to hate, has an enormous lead in her 2022 midterm election primary and is considered "badass" and “incredibly effective” despite being booted off all House committees by Democrats.
In a new campaign survey provided to Secrets, likely Republican primary voters in her northwest Georgia district chose Greene overwhelmingly over her potential opponents, and 53% would back her regardless of who challenges.
And a recent redistricting that added Democratic sections of Cobb County hasn’t watered down her support in the ruby-red 14th Congressional District.
“Anyone who thinks Marjorie Taylor Greene is vulnerable in a Republican primary is delusional and severely detached from reality,” said her campaign pollster and media consultant, Neighborhood Research and Media, in the memo.
The outfit, which also worked in her initial 2020 bid, said Greene’s GOP reelection support is at 71% in head-to-head matchups. Her likely opponents, Charles Lutin and Jennifer Strahan, the darling of anti-Trump Republicans, are unknown to most voters. At least 85% of GOP primary voters have not heard of either, said the poll memo.
“She has an amazing 68-10 favorable rating — up from 48-12 in July — despite the addition of Democratic parts of Cobb County in recent redistricting,” said the memo.
1. I just got off the phone with my favorite President of all time, Donald J. Trump.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) December 27, 2021
We discussed many issues, people, races in ‘22 as well as vaccines and mandates.
We discussed #COVID19, how awful the virus from China has been, and how horribly it’s been politicized.
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She is also well-funded, unlike her potential foes.
The district is strongly pro-Trump. Some 70% of the Republicans polled said that the former president “was the actual winner” in the 2020 election, and an equal amount wanted him to run again.
It also showed that Trump-backed former Sen. David Perdue is gaining on Gov. Brian Kemp in the gubernatorial primary.
Greene, who is close to Trump, can also be an influence in other races through endorsements, said the survey. More than 7 in 10 Republicans said she is effective, and 36% said they would be “more likely” to back a candidate endorsed by her.
In Washington, she is leading the effort by pro-Trump House and Senate members to primary GOP Trump critics, including Rep. Liz Cheney, and she has been especially critical of the so-called liberal “squad.”
What’s more, she has defied House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s mask mandate, costing her significant fines, and gone to bat for long-imprisoned Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene represents exactly the prototype for what voters expect from their representatives in the Biden era,” said pollster Rick Shaftan.
He noted that criticism in Washington from the liberal and conservative media, including National Review, has had no impact back home. And she hasn’t been hurt by her sometimes controversial statements, such as when she raised the Holocaust in a tweet about vaccine passports, comments she apologized for.
His memo concluded, “Northwest Georgia Republicans love their representative in Congress. These numbers clearly illustrate the disconnect between the DC Media Elite, anti-Trump ‘Republicans,’ the K Street Swamp and the slimy consultant class, and what real Americans actually think. There are few members of Congress more popular or more respected in their home districts than Marjorie Taylor Greene. DC Republicans need to learn from her, emulate her and utilize her popularity to drive 2022 turnout.”