Anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is repotedly considering running for Georgia’s U.S. Senate seat in 2026, but her last-place finish in a new poll of potential candidates might make her rethink it.

The poll, conducted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) shows Georgia’s incumbent U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff (D) being beaten by current Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp but holding “commanding leads” over three other Republican candidates, the publication wrote, including Greene, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and Insurance Commissioner John King.

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Though none of the aforementioned Republicans have publicly pledged to run, here’s how they fared against Ossoff in AJC’s poll:

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• Kemp got 49% of respondents’ support, and Ossoff got 46%.
• Raffensperger got 39% of respondents’ support, and Ossoff got 48%.
• King got 38% of respondents’ support, and Ossoff got 51%.
• Greene got 37% of respondents’ support, and Ossoff got 54%.

The fact that Ossoff got the highest level of support when paired against Greene suggests that she would be a uniquely unpopular candidate who, in this poll, compelled 60% of independents and 10% of Republicans to choose a Democrat.

While Greene won her district’s 2024 election by a margin of 64.4% against her Democratic rival, Shawn Harris, who got 35.6%, a U.S. Senate race would take her out of the deeply red congressional district and subject her to the scrutiny of voters across the purple state.

It’s unclear if Greene could even win a Republican primary that would pair her inflammatory anti-leftist rhetoric against Kemp or Raffensperger’s more measured and moderate tone.

A high-profile race, complete with unflattering opposition research and ties to the president’s vastly unpopular government staffing and funding cuts and business-destabilizing tariffs, could negatively impact the popularity of any Republican candidate running against Ossoff.

Indeed, Ossoff already has $11 million in his campaign coffers. He is portraying himself as an obstructionist to the administration’s agenda and challenging Kemp to oppose the mass layoffs at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Osoff won his 2021 special runoff election against Republican David Perdue by only 54,944 votes, a slim margin of 1.22%. Whoever ends up as his opponent will likely be competing in one of the most expensive and hotly contested races of the nation.

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