Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is considering taking Donald Trump’s advice that she run for the Senate (he said he’d “fight like hell” for her), but she’s also thinking about whether she’d be asked to join Trump’s cabinet — and maybe even be his vice president — should he win the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination.
When the Atlanta Journal-Constitution asked her if she’d be running for Senate, MTG said she has “a lot of things to think about,” including a potential cabinet position. If Trump asked her to be his running mate, MTG said she’d consider it “very, very heavily.”
Cockburn thinks hedging her bets with Team Trump is a wise move for the firebrand Republican who was recently kicked out of the House Freedom Caucus for yelling at Representative Lauren Boebert. Despite the media’s less-than-flattering portrayal of her, MTG seems unfazed personally and unharmed politically by her reputation for confrontation. Like Trump, MTG’s stock seems only to rise with each headline-grabbing antic.
Still, it appears Greene is also sitting pretty in her home Georgia district. Politico reports that “over the past several weeks, Greene no longer looks endangered. No substantive primary challenge has materialized. And the backlash to her ties to McCarthy hasn’t led to any clear vulnerabilities in her deep-red district.” She saw off a challenge from Democrat Marcus Flowers in 2022, beating him by over thirty points.
It’s fun to conjecture, though, and in considering what cabinet position would be suitable for MTG, Cockburn’s come up with a few appropriate options: the Department of Agriculture, for instance, from which she can direct the “Gazpacho Police.” Or Health and Human Services, with her background as a gym owner and Crossfitter. Perhaps the best fit, though, is Agriculture: if she had oversight of the US Forest Service, she could tackle head on all those wildfires started by Jewish space lasers…
