Watch how Fate is putting together an interesting scenario for none other than Marge Greene in 2026. It was thought a few weeks ago that she might run for the Governor of Georgia when that post opens up in 2026. Good, said I. Let her see just how popular she is in a statewide race and outside of her batshit crazy deep red district. And even some of the people in said district can’t stand her, but there just aren’t enough of them. But then lo and behold, Brian Kemp said today that he would not be running for the U.S. Senate when his governership is up. So might Marge run for that seat? And here’s what she said to Steve Bannon today.
Bannon to Greene: “If you merge MAHA (RFK Jr) with MAGA it’s like 1932 – you govern forever.”
1,000-year Reich. pic.twitter.com/3rbEnO5TzG
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 5, 2025
I guess we should be grateful that they’re saying the quiet part out loud. It’s always nice when the cards are face up on the table and there’s no pretense. Hakeem Jeffries thinks Georgia is “stuck” with Greene as it’s Senate candidate. This could get funny and fast.
“Why does Donald Trump make such ridiculous statements, like he’s unsure as to whether he has a responsibility to follow the Constitution?” Jeffries asked at a Monday news conference. “Why is the Republican Party stuck with Marjorie Taylor Greene as their candidate for the United States Senate seat in Georgia?”
“It’s because Donald Trump and House Republicans are on the run,” he continued. “They are crashing the economy in real time and driving us toward a recession… Democrats are running toward our constituents, and House Republicans are running away from them.”
“So when you have Republicans in barely 100 days on the run, on the economy, on healthcare, and on Social Security, ridiculous statements are made or they’re left with scratching the bottom of the barrel as it relates to candidates for U.S. Senate seats… They are on the run, and Democrats are going to keep the pressure on.”
While Kemp announced Monday that he would not challenge Sen. Jon Ossoff’s (D-GA) seat, Greene has not said if she plans to run for Senate.
Greene can do one of three things: 1. Stay where she is; 2. Run for the Senate; 3. Run for governor. She would do well to stay where she is but when you have an ego that large, untethered from reality, you do tend to get Icarus-like notions and fly too close to the sun. And you know what happens then.
If anybody proved this theory out, it was Madison Cawthorn. He was in a deep red district, he was sympathetic because of his wheelchair, he was newly married, all that he had to do was keep his head down and his mouth shut and show up and vote and he would have been fine. It was too tall an order for him. His ego would not allow him to believe that he should just play it cool and learn. No, he had to run his mouth and he upset one too many donors and you know the rest.
Cawthorn was a one-term, one hit wonder. Let’s see what Marge does. Unless I miss my guess, she believes she is omniscient and she’s not reading the polls or the tealeaves. The country is divided down the middle, as if a berserk King Solomon went ahead and split us in two just to see how we would survive, or if we could survive so divided. But Marge goes along with Trump’s landslide, mandate fantasies. So let’s see where she goes and what she does. If she runs for anything beyond the seat she’s currently in, it will be center ring at the circus time. And Georgia does tend to be the center of the political universe from time to time. This won’t be the first.
I have a lot of respect for Hakeem Jeffries, but I don’t understand what he means here: “Why does Donald Trump make such ridiculous statements, like he’s unsure as to whether he has a responsibility to follow the Constitution?” Jeffries asked at a Monday news conference. ….
“It’s because Donald Trump and House Republicans are on the run,” he continued.
Does he mean that if Trump wer really feeling sure of himself he would have answered, “No, why would I have any responsibility to follow the Constitution?” But because he’s become somewhat unsure lately, he’s thinking that maybe, just maybe, he SHOULD follow the Constitution, though he’s not ready to make such a controversial statement outright? (Leaving aside the fact that he swore a solemn oath that he would do just that.)
Or does it imply that if Trump were even less sure of himself he would have immediately answered, “Of course I have the responsibility to follow the Constitution” — simply because he’d have been too scared to admit otherwise?
Personally, I think the most likely explanation is that Trump really does not believe he has any responsibility to follow the Constitution, but that he was suddenly prompted by some still, quiet voice inside him (definitely not conscience, which he completely lacks, nor even prudence, which he also lacks, but perhaps a vague memory of someone — a lawyer perhaps — telling him that it wouldn’t be a good idea to say so) to say that he wasn’t sure.
Kemp says NOW he won’t run. Perhaps without Yertle pressuring him he’ll stick to not doing so. It would after all be a tough race. Winnable for him in a state like Georgia but tough and Ossoff might just prevail as current polling indicates he would. Given how the Trump effect could be an anchor for Kemp he’s wise to stay out of it. I’ve long thought, and have said so here on PZ he’s got Presidential ambitions. I believe he could mount a credible run for the nomination, despite a chunk of MAGAs pissed off at him for not throwing the 2020 election in Georgia to Trump. Kemp was like Raffensberger not about to risk jail for Trump.
Kemp does however have time to change his mind and the wherewithal to quickly raise the money he’d need. If he’s still saying no when the filing deadline comes I’ll breathe easier because given other potential GOPers that might run Ossoff should be in the driver’s seat. And I’ll keep saying it – Kemp is eyeing a WH run and a Senate run would make that problematic.