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Marjorie Taylor Greene Predicts a GOP Bloodbath in the Midterms


Soon the America hating MAGAts will have no say at all.

In a new interview, the conservative hardliner lets loose on Trump and the Republican Party.

Marjorie Taylor Greene unloads on Trump, Netanyahu and the future of MAGA
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By Dasha Burns04/11/2026 10:00 AM EDT

Dasha Burns is POLITICO Playbook's Chief Correspondent, White House Bureau Chief and Host of "The Conversation," a fresh take on the traditional
Sunday show format, going beyond conventional wisdom and short sound bites
to broaden the political conversation.

Republicans are going to get oslaughteredo in the midterms u losing the
House and maybe even the Senate. This prediction isnAt coming from Hakeem Jeffries or Chuck Schumer but from former Republican Congresswoman and MAGA firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene.

For six years, Greene was one of President Donald TrumpAs most loyal allies and became an influential and polarizing voice in the Republican Party. But the Greene-Trump relationship ruptured late last year over her push to
release the so-called Epstein files, leading to her abrupt resignation from Congress. Now, sheAs one of TrumpAs loudest critics, calling his military action in Iran oevil and madnesso and endorsing the use of the 25th
Amendment to remove him for being unable to fulfill the duties of his
office.

oI was so shocked by his statement of taking out an entire civilization of people,o Greene said in an interview with The Conversation. oTo me, that displayed a severe mental state.o

GreeneAs very public fallout with the president underscores a deeper
fracture inside the MAGA movement and raises new questions about what
oAmerica Firsto actually means. In the short-term, however, the divide is likely to undermine the GOP in November.

In the special election to replace Greene this past week, Democrats cut
deep into Republican margins in the ruby-red seat. It was a sign, Greene
said, that Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff u perhaps the most vulnerable Democratic senator u would be reelected.

As for her own political identity, Greene said she didnAt know if she still considered herself a Republican. oIAm definitely leaning more [toward]
calling myself an independent.o So, would she ever run as a third-party candidate?

oI have no idea, honestly. IAm very much enjoying life out of politics,o
she said. oI canAt even begin to answer that.o

The following interview has been edited for length and clarity. Listen here for the full conversation.

There are people in the movement who say youAve changed, that youAre not
quite the same. I know you said you havenAt changed any of your positions,
but the evolution of Marjorie Taylor Greene has taken a lot of folks by surprise.

Well, I think everyoneAs not used to someone thatAs willing to criticize
both parties. Everyone expected me to, when a Republican president came in
and Republicans were in control, everyone expected me to continue my
criticism of Democrats.

However, IAve always been critical of both sides. For me, itAs just about being honest in what I see and places that I see are failures, and I took responsibility as a Republican member of Congress to call it out when our side, Republicans, were failing and weAre in charge.

IAm curious if you agree with this assessment: ItAs less about your
positions changing, but thereAs something about the way that you
communicate your message that has evolved. Do you agree with that? And if
so, whatAs behind that?

Yeah, I would agree with that. That probably did change over time. I would
say that was learning the ways of Washington, probably some maturity,
growing into the role. You have to remember, when I came in as a member of Congress, I had never served in any government capacity, not at the state level, not in any level. I had never even been to a GOP meeting until I
walked into one and said I was running for Congress.

I would say when I came on the scene in 2021, I was the most naNve member
of Congress. I was your very average American that had my lens of
government, and I came from that perspective. I had to get in there and I
had to learn some hard lessons, learn the ropes, figure out how it worked
and it took me a while.

And you know, I had also been criticized so much. The press was not nice to me. Many of my own colleagues were not nice to me. And the Democrats hated
my guts.

You werenAt too nice to the press or your colleagues either to be honest.

No, I wasnAt. Everything felt combative when I got to Washington D.C. It
was microphones and cameras in your face with hard questions that were
coming fast. IAd never done that before. And the dynamics of Washington
D.C., the two political parties, it is just a constant war. And so that
makes it hard to have any good dialogue.

Now there are several moments where you have taken the side of Democrats, including very recently you called for the president to be removed from office, joining Democrats in wanting to invoke the 25th Amendment. Do you think at this point that America would be better off without President
Trump?

I was so shocked by his statement of taking out an entire civilization of people. That is rhetoric that we have never heard from any president of the United States and I donAt think any world [leader]. I was so, so disturbed
by that. And to me, that displayed a severe mental state, that someone
would say those words.

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I believe so, yes.

Is Trump still the leader of the MAGA movement?

He claims that MAGA is whatever he says it is so I donAt associate with the new MAGA that he created once he became president.

The OG MAGA, who do you think is or should be the leader of MAGA as you see it?

I think itAs all divided right now. Obviously President Trump still has significant support, according to polls and anyone that identifies
themselves as MAGA very much supports President Trump. However, the reality
of whatAs happened in that base is itAs very fractured.

ThereAs the oAmerica Firsto lane of the Republican Party. ThereAs the Republican voter that calls themselves MAGA. Then thereAs your traditional Republican voters. Then youAve got more moderate voters.

The most interesting conversation to have is itAs a generational divide.
The people 50, 55, and up that watch Fox News literally all day on their television, like a lot of elder people I know, I would say they are
receiving propaganda news that theyAre watching all day long. TheyAre being fed news that is framed and stories that reference only this rosy view of
what President Trump is doing and the White House and MAGA. I think theyAre being misled because if you watch all angles of news and if you watch international news, if you follow stories on the internet and youAre pretty smart and try to figure out OK, thatAs fake, OK, this storyAs real, you get
a completely different viewpoint than the people that watch Fox News all
day.

IAll say this: This pro-war, the neocon whatever this new gross version of MAGA is, itAs not going to last because the younger generations just donAt support it.

Given all of the fractures that youAre talking about, what do you think the outlook is for Republicans in the midterms this year?

Oh, IAve been saying, I think I said it early in 2025, Republicans are
going to get slaughtered in the midterms and u

Does that mean losing the House or the House and the Senate?

I think right now itAs definitely losing the House and potentially the
Senate.

This week, there was kind of a bellwether actually in your district.

Uh-huh.
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The election to fill your seat, the Republican won. Clay Fuller won, but
not by the margins you won by, certainly not by the margins that the
president won the district by.

Uh-huh.

What do you make of that outcome?

I was never worried about my seat slipping blue. That was never a concern.
And of course, IAve congratulated Clay Fuller. IAve talked to him. I wish
him the best and hopefully he serves the district. I think the graver
warning sign is the gigantic drop in Republican votes in that special election. Clay Fuller, he was [up] around 11 or 12...

12 points, yeah. Trump won by 37 in A24.

Right. And I was close to 30. And so that gigantic drop is really a danger,
a big warning sign for statewide elections in 2026. Of course, it matches
what weAre seeing nationwide where Democrats are flipping Republican seats
all over the country. But I think the danger zone in that one is very much
the potential that Georgia could flip blue.

Did you vote for Fuller?

I support Republicans. Yeah, I supported the Republican candidate.

Do you think Jon Ossoff is going to win Georgia in November?

Yes, I think OssoffAs going to win.

Wow.

Yeah, his polling numbers have repeatedly showed it over and over again.
And again, IAll point out, if [Democratic congressional candidate] Shawn Harris was able to dig in that deep into a red district like my former district, that is definitely something to watch for in these other key
races.

And votersA frustration with Congress, and this is on both sides of the
aisle. Voters are not thrilled.

No.

For Republicans, Mike Johnson is the leader in the House right now. Should
he be in 2027?

No, absolutely not. I donAt think he should be the speaker right now. HeAs been a terrible speaker, very unsuccessful.

LetAs talk about your own future for a minute because youAve retired from Congress. YouAve said pretty intently that you donAt plan to run for office again. But here you are. YouAre still very public and you seem intent on maintaining a voice in the party and in the movement. Why is that?

Because I do care deeply about the country. And I care about my childrenAs generation, Gen Z. And I think thereAs a lot of changes that can be made,
and I hope to be impactful in that way. I think both parties are a complete failure and the results prove it, right?

YouAve said that both parties need to be burned down to the ground.

Yes.

I know you said you vote for Republicans, but do you still consider
yourself a Republican?

I donAt really know if I do consider myself one right now. I would say IAm definitely leaning more [toward] calling myself an independent.

Have you gone so far as to change your registration yet?

I havenAt. Not yet. But I will probably think pretty deeply about doing
that. I think thatAs where many Americans are finding themselves.

I had tweeted at Ro Khanna this morning. HeAs mentioned pulling together a coalition from the left and the right and trying to find a new center
because the current center has got us where we are. I am very interested in going to a whiteboard and going oOK, letAs come together and what does this even look like and how can we reimagine a new coalition going forward? And
I think thatAs what the younger generations want. I think that could be the future. And so IAm interested in that conversation.

Would you ever run as a third-party candidate?

I have no idea, honestly. IAm very much enjoying life out of politics. So I canAt even begin to answer that.

Would you consider voting for someone that calls themselves a Democrat?

Well, itAs hard for me because I have some issues that I very much care
about, like IAm pro-life. IAm very much against [gender] transitioning for children. I donAt care what adults do. Honestly, adults can do whatever
they want. If a man wants to get a boob job, fine; go get your boob job.
But for me, itAs kids and how kids are affected by that. So those are
issues that are important to me.

IAm conservative also. I care about the debt. I care about what happens to
our tax dollars. IAm very concerned about Social Security. I donAt think
you and I are ever going to see a Social Security check even though weAve
been paying into it all of our adult working lives. I foresee serious
problems there. I canAt say I can see myself voting for a Democrat
candidate.

But I am interested in looking for candidates that are willing to put these special interest issues aside and find new common ground issues that can
truly serve America, America first. ThatAs what I care about. America
first. No more foreign wars, no more money to foreign countries, letAs keep our money here and figure out how to help Americans.

So we could see a Majorie Taylor Greene and Ro Khanna team up potentially
down the line?

Well, we teamed up on the Epstein files with Thomas Massie, and Ro Khanna
was the leader on the Democrat side that really helped make that happen.
And it was impressive.

ItAs really something to think about you two in a room with a whiteboard trying to figure out a new political party. That says a lot about the political moment weAre in right now.

I think itAs needed, and hopefully we would have some other smart people in the room. But itAs a conversation that I think is at least worth having.
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Umm ... let's say that MTG is now all 'sour grapes'.


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