Nancy Mace, a Republican congresswoman from South Carolina, once tweeted a description of Greene consisting of a bat emoji followed by a poop emoji. People call her hateful, crazy, toxic, a clown. Many things are said about Greene in D.C. “To talk to people and hear about what they think about me, compared to the things that are said about me.” “He brought the idea to me, and I thought about it, and I said, ‘I’d like to give the press an opportunity to see what we do each day,’” she says. Meeting the press, Greene tells us, was the brainchild of her communications director, Nick Dyer. Last year, a local reporter who tried to question Greene at a town hall was kicked out and threatened with arrest.īut on this warm May day, she’s made an exception, dragging a troop of us out on the campaign trail for a 14-hour tour with eight stops across her rural Northwest Georgia district. Normally, Greene only talks to Fox News and its even-further-right counterparts-friendly interviews in which her outrageous statements are unlikely to be challenged. Nor does she need a boost in the polls: a few weeks hence, she’ll win her primary by more than 50 points. It’s not to increase her visibility: after just a year and a half in Congress, her name ID eclipses that of politicians who’ve been in Washington for decades. It’s unclear to us-a dozen journalists for local Georgia media, a right-wing streaming service, and TIME-what Greene stands to gain from this unprecedented encounter.
Despite having invited us here, Greene herself doesn’t seem to know.
The polarizing Georgia congresswoman is perched on a seat near the front of a 15-seat minibus packed with the hated mainstream media, and we’re all trying to figure out why. “Well, first of all, it wasn’t my idea,” Marjorie Taylor Greene says brightly to the group of reporters.
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN ROME AND TRION, GEORGIA
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