AOC says Trump blocked Greene’s Senate run, sparking ‘revenge tour’

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claimed Monday that President Donald Trump rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., from working for Georgia’s Senate seat subsequent 12 months — a transfer she stated sparked Greene’s ongoing “revenge tour” in opposition to the Republican Occasion.

Ocasio-Cortez made the feedback throughout an Instagram livestream, telling her followers, “This is some tea for you. MTG, persons are like, ‘Oh my God, she’s saying all this stuff, like, what’s gotten into her recently?’ ‘Oh, she’s opposing Trump, she’s opposing the federal government.’”

“Marjorie Taylor Greene wished to run for Senate in Georgia. She wished to run for Senate within the state of Georgia earlier this 12 months, she wished to be the Republican candidate for Senate. So she was preparing for that statewide race, and Trump informed her no,” she continued.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims President Donald Trump stopped Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from working for Georgia’s Senate seat, prompting her latest “revenge tour.” (Drew Angerer/Kevin Dietsch)

“Trump stated no, and the White Home and Trump Nation shut down Marjorie Taylor Greene’s private ambitions to run for Senate — and he or she’s been on a revenge tour ever since,” Ocasio-Cortez added.

Greene stated in Could that she wouldn’t search Georgia’s Senate seat subsequent 12 months, selecting to not problem Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff. Republicans view Ossoff’s seat as considered one of their greatest pick-up alternatives in 2026.

“Even with just a few good Republicans within the Senate, nothing will change,” Greene wrote on the time on

In latest weeks, Greene has stepped up criticism of the Republican Occasion’s management, specializing in the social gathering’s strategy to well being care and the continuing authorities shutdown — whilst Republicans management each Congress and the White Home.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced in Could that she wouldn’t problem incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff in subsequent 12 months’s Senate race. (Getty Photographs)

She has additionally cut up from her social gathering on overseas coverage, calling Israel’s navy marketing campaign in Gaza a “genocide” and “humanitarian disaster.”

On ABC’s “The View” Tuesday, Greene brushed apart any suggestion that her criticism had strained her relationship with Trump.

“I actually love him,” she stated. “Once I ran for Congress in 2020, I criticized each Republicans and Democrats as a result of I come from a working-class household.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has criticized the management of the Republican Occasion and the GOP in Congress in latest weeks. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Photographs)

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Greene has warned that Republicans may lose management of the Home of Representatives if inflation and day-to-day prices don’t fall rapidly.

Final month, she informed Semafor that she “could not see into the long run, however I see the Republicans shedding the Home of Representatives if People proceed to go paycheck to paycheck.”

“They may undoubtedly go into the midterms trying by way of the lens of their checking account,” she added.