Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced Monday that she would not endorse a candidate to replace her in the House.
“Looking ahead towards the Special Election for my Congressional seat, I will not be endorsing anyone out of respect to my district,” she said in a statement, days after declaring her shock resignation from Congress, effective in January 2026.
“I truly support the wonderful people of Georgia 14 and want them to pick their Representative,” the Georgia lawmaker added. “So anyone claiming they have my endorsement would not be telling the truth.”
Greene cited deep disagreements with Republican leadership as the basis for choosing to resign. She increasingly split with President Donald Trump over the course of 2025 about what MAGA stands for and what the president’s base is looking for.
A special election to fill Greene’s 14th Congressional District seat will probably happen in March 2026, Paulding County Republican Party Chairman Ricky Hess told Atlanta News First.
Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) is largely in charge of calling the special election. He must call the election within 10 days of Greene’s departure from office, which she said will occur on Jan. 5.
Several candidates have already suggested they are considering launching campaigns to succeed Greene, including conservative influencer CJ Pearson and Republican state Sen. Colton Moore.
On the Democratic side, retired Army Brig. Gen. Shawn Harris already entered the race. Harris ran against Greene in the 2024 election, losing that race by a margin of 29 percentage points.
“I knew, like everybody else, that there’s a major divorce going on between Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene,” Harris told NewsNation over the weekend. “Me and my team, we actually were planning for her at some point to drop out of the race and perhaps do something else.”
Once a staunch supporter of the president, Greene has begun expressing increasing dissatisfaction with Trump in recent months, inferring that he has betrayed the MAGA movement he helped build. Trump publicly split with the congresswoman in November and pulled his endorsement of her, suggesting Greene had turned on him because he advised her against running for the Senate.
When pressed on whether he would “forgive” Greene over the weekend, Trump replied, “Forgive for what?”
“I just disagreed with her philosophy,” the president said outside the White House. “I said, ‘Go your own way.’ Once I left her, she resigned because she would never have survived a primary. But I think she’s a nice person.”
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Trump later told NBC News that “I’d love to see” Greene revive her career in politics. However, he added that “it’s not going to be easy for her” to do so.
“She’s got to take a little rest,” the president said.
