Marjorie Taylor Greene says she won’t run for Georgia governor in 2026

WUGA | By Jeff Dantre

Published July 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM EDT

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., joined at left by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks at a news conference about the treatment of people being held in the District of Columbia jail who are charged with crimes in the Jan. 6 insurrection, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) — U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene

U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene says she will not run for governor of Georgia in 2026. In a lengthy social media post, Greene says she intends to stay in Congress and promote President Trump’s agenda.

The Rome Republican also passed on a Senate bid earlier this year at the urging of Trump and other Republicans who worried she would be too polarizing in a general election matchup against Democratic U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff.

In the governor’s race, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and State Senator Jason Esteves will compete for the Democratic nomination. For Republicans, it’s Attorney General Chris Carr and Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones.

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Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.

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