ROME, Ga. — Channel 2 Action News is hearing from constituents in Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district just hours after she announced her resignation.
Channel 2’s Brittany Kleinpeter was live from Rome, where the congresswoman resides.
The people that Kleinpeter spoke to seem to share mixed feelings on the subject.
Some in the 14th Congressional District are not surprised. Others feel like the district’s fate seems even more uncertain then ever.
“Things are interesting,” Linda Peak said.
“I am shocked,” Daphne Jones-Pearson said.
Some voters are disappointed.
“I thought she was going to stand up for the survivors of the Epstein files. I love seeing that she has backbone. I’ve always said that she’s had fortitude,” Shay Grey said.
Others are hopeful a more moderate candidate steps in.
“There’s definitely more diversity and acceptance then I think that she represented for sure,” Ashley Stringer said.
The announcement of her resignation from Congress comes one week after an online feud with President Donald Trump.
The congresswoman criticized the president’s stance on files related to the late Jeffrey Epstein. They also clashed on foreign policy and health care.
In a 10-minute-long social media video posted to social media last night, Greene said she never felt like she fit in in Washington, D.C.
And that she knew what was coming down the road and didn’t want to put her family through it.
Greene said her last day would be Jan. 5.
With that, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp will have to set a special election date within 10 days of her announcement.
When Channel 2 spoke with political analyst Bill Crane, he pointed out that in recent interviews, she’s made it clear she has no desire to serve in the U.S. Senate, but notably offered no such dismissal or criticism of the idea of becoming Georgia governor.
So could a run for governor be in the works? We’ll have to wait and see.
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