Marjorie Taylor Greene’s exit opens new political unknown in Georgia

CHATSWORTH, Ga — U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene built her career as one of Donald Trump’s fiercest defenders.

Now, after a dramatic turn against the president she once championed, she’s walking away from a Washington that she said “despised” her.

What comes next for her — and for Georgia politics — is suddenly wide open.

For five years, she embodied the combative edge of Trump’s MAGA movement. But after a bitter breakup with the president who once called her a “future Republican star,” Greene is stepping into a new and unpredictable phase of her political life when she leaves office in January.

Her exit revived speculation that she could reconsider a run for governor or U.S. Senate — contests she previously dismissed. And while both seem unlikely, particularly a bid to take on Democr