Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia congressional candidate who is a prominent QAnon advocate, is distancing herself from the far-right conspiracy theory amid increased media scrutiny.
“No, it doesn’t represent me,” Greene, who recently secured the GOP nomination in a heavily red district that will likely send her to Washington, said during an interview with Fox News in response to the “QAnon candidate” moniker she has been dealt.
“I don’t expect a lot of the left-leaning media to change their stance,” she said on Friday. “I think they’re going to continue to attack me because they actually do see me as someone who’s unapologetically conservative. And I won’t back down on my beliefs and my values.”
The QAnon conspiracy alleges that a group of powerful sex traffickers is working to take down President Trump. The FBI has said that adherents to the theory could pose a domestic terror threat. The “Q” symbol has been present at a number of Trump’s events over the years.
Greene, whose candidacy has been opposed by some prominent Republicans, including House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, insisted her interest in the conspiracy group was forged by her curiosity. Videos from a couple of years ago in which Greene shared racist and anti-Semitic views as well as her support for QAnon have been the impetus for the backlash.
“I was just one of those people, just like millions of other Americans, that just started looking at other information,” Greene said. “And so, yeah, there was a time there for a while that I had read about Q, posted about it, talked about it, which is some of these videos you’ve seen come out. But once I started finding misinformation, I decided that I would choose another path.”
She also blamed the media for the coverage of the videos, claiming journalists decided “to try to create a narrative about me that’s not true.”
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has backed her candidacy, according to the Daily Caller. Trump has done the same, referring to Greene as a “future Republican Star” and “a real WINNER.”
The president was asked about QAnon during a briefing last week, but he dodged the question.
