Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, who lost Jan. Geoff Duncan.Īll three are likely to face primary challenges, but Raffensperger’s role overseeing elections in the state and his office’s decision to secretly record Trump asking him to somehow “find” votes to overturn the presidential election results have made him a top target of Trump supporters.Īgainst that backdrop, Greene - who also will be running for reelection in the conservative northwest corner of the state, where Republicans need to campaign - is expected to have an elevated role.Įstablishment Republicans worry that if the GOP nominates conservatives from the party’s Trump and Greene wing, they’ll run the risk of suffering the same fate as Republican Sens. Greene is expected to play a pivotal role as a campaign issue in 2022 when Sterling’s boss, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, runs for reelection along with two other top Republicans, Gov. Greene has promoted the conspiracy theory that space lasers caused California wildfires, that school shootings were hoaxes and suggested that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should be executed for treason.

Judging from old social media posts and videos that surfaced last week, that hole is fairly deep. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Subscribe on Google Podcasts I mean, I don’t know how far down the rabbit hole you go.” They’re gonna give her every opportunity to speak and be heard and look crazy - like what came out Wednesday, the Jewish space laser to start fires. They want her to be the definition of what a Republican is. “The Democrats would never throw her out. “Some people are saying maybe Nancy Pelosi will throw her out” of Congress, Sterling said, referring to the House speaker. She is weighing us down,” said Gabriel Sterling, a Republican election administrator who became a leading voice criticizing the baseless election conspiracy theories espoused by Trump and his supporters like Greene. “If you have any common sense, you know she’s an anchor on the party.

With the party reeling in the wake of its 2020 unraveling - when it lost too many centrist voters - state Republicans now worry Greene will emerge as the face of the GOP, tainting the entire ticket with a stamp of conspiracy theory and extremism in the run-up to the 2022 midterms. This is what a nightmare scenario looks like.

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