When your district is drawn to save you, popularity gets a head start
Congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene’s support appears unshaken by her public spat with the Orange Menace. Pouring through interviews in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, voters say they’re still behind her; it seems as though her territory was drawn almost entirely to protect her.
While their faith — personal or political — might be tested, it appears that, for now, Greene’s support among party leaders in her district is unshakeable.
“It’s a lot like when she stood up for the health care — Obamacare. It wasn’t that she was trying to be different. She was just defending a lot of people in this district because we have so many rural, needy families here,” Cooper said. “Clearly, from what we’re doing right now, she just cares about people.”
And despite the bruising verbal combat between the two party leaders, the mission on Tuesday was to fix hunger, not sling mud.
“Does the MTG stuff affect what we’re doing today? Absolutely not,” Peters said. “We’re focused on our job.”
In Rome, Georgia, and surrounding rural regions, local GOP figures focus on food pantries, prayer breakfasts, and campus ministry work as the Washington drama plays out. They say Greene’s brand isn’t about pleasing Trump, but standing up for rural families in a district that gives Republicans a one-way ticket to victory. The map may be rigged, but the loyalty seems real. Only gerrymandering can reliably provide a candidate who believes in weather control and space lasers a safe seat.