发布时间：2026年2月6日，美国东部时间上午5:00 | CNN政治
试图填补前共和党众议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林（Marjorie Taylor Greene）空出的席位的众人中，有一位是她的前幕僚吉姆·塔利（Jim Tully）。1月份，他在一档地方保守派电台节目中自我介绍时，直到主持人询问才提及与格林的关联。
塔利表示，格林的离职给该选区留下了“明显的空缺”，并补充说，在格林11月宣布辞职后，他几乎立刻宣布参选，目的是给选民一个“重新开始”的机会。
“我不能让选民们对未来感到迷茫，”他说，“我必须给他们一些希望。”
其他候选人对这位前女议员的评价更为尖锐直接。
前消防员兼医护人员詹姆斯·马蒂·布朗（James Marty Brown）表示，格林的政治手段“分裂了很多人”。
“她就像那只追逐羽毛的猫，盯着那些闪亮的小物件，而不是退后一步，看看大局究竟在发生什么，”他最近告诉CNN。
在竞选接替格林的共和党候选人中，他们对格林辞职及其与唐纳德·特朗普总统分裂的态度呈现出明显模式。那些由于此前参与地方共和党政治而更为知名的候选人，在对特朗普表示忠诚和对格林表示尊重之间寻求平衡，而政治新人则对格林毫不迟疑地展开批评。
CNN采访了或查看了16名宣布参选接替格林的共和党人中的12人的公开言论。3月10日的初选极有可能导致4月的决选。
几乎所有人都声称自己将是特朗普在当地最好的盟友。超过一半的人表示，他们经常听到选民谈论格林，包括那些表示因格林在第三任期中途辞职而感到困惑和背叛的人。
乔治亚州罗马市的律师大卫·古登舒（David Guldenschuh）每周在WLAQ-AM电台主持一档保守派脱口秀节目，他指出，佐治亚州第14选区是美国最支持特朗普的选区之一，特别是在田纳西州和阿拉巴马州边境的北部各县，远离亚特兰大郊区。
“特朗普总统在这里极受欢迎，所以你当然会看到候选人试图像我刚才说的那样，互相‘超越特朗普’，”古登舒补充道，他同时也是弗洛伊德县共和党委员会的前任主席。
特朗普本周支持了克莱·富勒（Clay Fuller），后者辞去当地地区检察官职务参加此次特别选举。富勒最近表示，即使政府与他意见不合，他最终也会支持总统。
“如果他们说，‘这就是我们要走的路’，他们对什么是对美国人民最好的有非常强烈的看法，”他在古登舒的节目中说，“所以我愿意倾听……并协助他们，因为当我在那里时，我会支持总统。”
格林11月在X平台（原推特）上发文称，她不会支持继任者。
部分候选人的平衡策略
作为格林的高级选区代表，塔利表示，他曾担任格林在该选区的“耳目”，将当地民意传达给她的办公室。
不过，在最近接受古登舒节目采访时，他大部分时间都在向听众推销自己与该选区的联系。
“当我们一度非常迷恋格林议员时，有时突然之间，我们中的一些人感到幻灭，有时非常愤怒，民众需要知道，有人在那里关心，不会让事情就这样发生，”他说。
该选区南部的前县专员兼商人布莱恩·斯托弗（Brian Stover）在12月告诉福克斯新闻数字版，他采取了不同的策略。
“我尊重她所做的一切，”斯托弗说，“她为这个选区工作过，但我的策略不同。我会坐下来，进行良好的、深入的交谈……不会像她那样大声喧哗。”
斯托弗还告诉福克斯新闻，他会私下处理与总统的任何分歧。
“你不能通过像‘公牛闯进瓷器店’那样的方式解决问题，”他说，“我可以和特朗普总统坐下来，我保证我们能为我的选区争取最好的结果。”
同样辞职参选的前州参议员科尔顿·摩尔（Colton Moore）在给CNN的声明中表示，格林的“离职为聚焦特朗普领导下团结的新篇章打开了大门”。
“我认为共和党绝对存在问题，特别是在领导力薄弱和承诺落空方面，”摩尔在声明中说，“唐纳德·特朗普仍然是我们运动中最重要的政治人物，也是‘美国优先’核心的明确领袖。格林议员提出了重要的关切以追究责任，我赞赏她为选区的奋斗。”
摩尔本人也有与共和党人冲突的历史。他曾被逐出州参议院共和党核心小组，后来因试图在被禁止进入众议院后强行进入众议院参加联合演讲而被捕。他在声明中表示，他“不是来当任何人的克隆人的”。
政治新人更直接批评格林
虽然没有一位新人在竞选时将对格林的看法作为核心，但其中几位在接受CNN采访时迅速对其展开批评。
美国联邦应急管理局（FEMA）退休雇员斯塔·布莱克（Star Black）在6月宣布参选挑战格林，如果她再次竞选的话。她说，自她6月宣布竞选以来与选民的交谈显示，格林是多么“两极分化”。
“（格林）从来没有一个解决问题的计划，但她肯定能抢头条来抱怨问题，”布莱克告诉CNN。
梅格·斯特里克兰德（Meg Strickland）的竞选纲领是“回归常态”，她是CNN采访中唯一公开批评特朗普的共和党候选人，对此表示赞同。
她说，在她围绕亚特兰大郊区的选区东南部竞选时，人们在格林与特朗普发生争执之前就已经准备好向前看。
“她是为自己而战，而不是真正为人民服务，所以她没有取得任何成就，”斯特里克兰德说，“如果你一直那么分裂和好战，那么你永远不会有开放的讨论来为人们创造共同的解决方案。”
新南威尔士州的律师贾里德·克雷格（Jared Craig）是“美国优先退伍军人”组织的副主席，他表示，这种激烈的政治风格在共和党处于少数党时更为有效。
“她的品牌非常适合扮演‘失败者’的角色，”他说，“但一旦到了要获胜的阶段，我认为她当时并没有真正的方向感。”
其他候选人批评格林突然离开国会。
尽管两人都表示感谢格林为选区带来的关注，风险管理从业者博·布朗（Beau Brown）表示，她的辞职“让所有人都感到恶心”，而农民兼陆军退伍军人珍娜·特尼普西（Jenna Turnipseed）则表示，她“看不到格林对《平价医疗法案》补贴等问题突然政治转变的原因”。
辞职离开道尔顿市议会参加竞选的尼基·拉马（Nicky Lama）表示：“每个人，包括我自己，都只想知道发生了什么变化？”而里根·博克斯（Reagan Box）则结束了她的参议院竞选，转而竞选该席位，她说很多选民感到“被欺骗了”，因为他们曾支持她。
布莱克和博克斯也担心特别选举的成本，斯特里克兰德则表示，她“完全不尊重那些向选民承诺任期却中途离开的人”。
“我们有点为她感到难过，”克雷格说，“这才是真实的态度。因为她有机会，但她选择的道路让人惋惜。”
古登舒表示，谴责格林不会有利于整个竞选阵营。他说，该选区的许多选民仍然“爱戴”格林，并希望她和特朗普能够解决分歧。
“我认为（候选人）应该为我们曾有像格林议员这样代表我们这么久而感到非常自豪和荣幸，”他补充道。
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s feud with Donald Trump is shaping the race to replace her
Published Feb 6, 2026, 5:00 AM ET | CNN Politics
Among the people running to fill the seat vacated by former GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of her former staffers, Jim Tully. Introducing himself on a local conservative radio show in January, he didn’t mention his connection to Greene until asked by the host.
Tully said Greene’s departure left “a glaring loss in the district,” adding that he announced his campaign almost immediately after Greene’s November announcement of her resignation to give voters a chance to “start over.”
“I couldn’t leave families wondering what was next,” he said. “I had to give them some hope.”
Other candidates are more pointed about their former congresswoman.
James Marty Brown, a former firefighter and paramedic, says Greene “divided a lot of people” with her approach to politics.
“She’s the cat chasing that little dangling feather, a little shiny object, instead of sitting back and looking to see what the big picture of what’s going on is,” he told CNN recently.
There’s a clear pattern in how the Republicans running to replace Greene address her resignation and her split with President Donald Trump. Those who are better known due to their prior involvement with local GOP politics strike a balance between showing loyalty to Trump and respect to Greene, while newcomers have less hesitation about taking shots at her.
CNN spoke with or reviewed the public comments of 12 of the 16 Republicans who launched campaigns to replace Greene in a March 10 primary likely to lead to an April runoff.
Almost all are claiming that they will be Trump’s best local ally. More than half said they regularly hear from voters about Greene, including from people who say they felt confused and betrayed by her resignation in the middle of her third term.
David Guldenschuh, an attorney in Rome, Georgia, who hosts a weekly conservative talk show on WLAQ-AM, notes that Georgia’s 14th District is one of the most pro-Trump districts in the country, particularly in its northern counties on the Tennessee and Alabama borders well away from the Atlanta suburbs.
“President Trump is extremely popular here, so of course you’re going to see the candidates try to, as I said, out-Trump each other,” said Guldenschuh, who is also the past chair of the Floyd County Republican Party.
Trump this week endorsed Clay Fuller, who resigned his role as a local district attorney to run in the special election. Fuller said recently that he would ultimately back the president even when the administration disagreed with him.
“If they say, ‘This is what we’re going with,’ they have a very strong perspective on what’s best for the American people,” he said on Guldenschuh’s show. “So I’d be willing to listen … and assist them with it because when I’m up there, I’m going to have the president’s back.”
Greene wrote on X in November that she would not be endorsing a successor.
A balancing act for some candidates
As a senior district representative for Greene, Tully said that he worked as Greene’s “eyes and ears” in the district, relaying local sentiments to her office.
Still, he spent most of a recent interview on Guldenschuh’s show pitching listeners on his connection to the district.
“When we found ourselves so enamored with Congresswoman Greene at points, and all of the sudden, here we are just disillusioned at some points, sometimes very mad, folks needed to know that there was somebody there that cared enough to say, ‘Wait a minute, I’m not gonna let that happen,’” he said.
Brian Stover, a former county commissioner and businessman from the southern part of the district, told Fox News Digital in December that he had a different approach.
“I respect everything she’s done,” Stover said. “She’s worked for the district, but I have a different tactic. I go in, and I like to negotiate through just sitting down, having good, great conversations and … not being so loud, like she is.”
Stover also told Fox News that he’d handle any disagreements with the president privately.
“You don’t get stuff from just going in and trying to be the bull in the china shop,” he said. “I can sit down with President Trump, and I guarantee you we can work things out for the best of my district.”
And former state Sen. Colton Moore, who also resigned to run, said in a statement to CNN that Greene’s “departure opens the door for a new chapter focused on unity behind Trump.”
“I think the Republican Party absolutely has problems, especially when it comes to weak leadership and broken promises,” Moore said in the statement. “Donald Trump remains the most important political figure in our movement and the clear leader of the America First base. Congresswoman Greene raised important concerns to hold people accountable, and I appreciate her fighting for the district.”
Moore also has his own history of clashes with Republicans. He was expelled from the state senate’s GOP caucus and later arrested for attempting to force his way onto the House floor for a joint address after he had been banned from the chamber. He said in his statement he’s “not running to be anyone’s clone.”
The political newcomers take more shots at Greene
While none of the newcomers are centering their opinions of Greene in their campaigns, several of them were quick to criticize her in interviews with CNN.
Star Black, a retired Federal Emergency Management Agency employee, had already been running to challenge Greene in the primary if she had run again. She said talking to voters since her campaign announcement in June showed how “polarizing” Greene had been.
“(Greene) never had a plan of how she was going to fix anything, but she certainly was able to grab a headline to complain about it,” Black told CNN.
Meg Strickland, who’s running on a platform to “return to normal” and is the only Republican CNN spoke with who openly criticized Trump, agreed.
Where she’s been campaigning at the southeastern area of the district around the Atlanta suburbs, she said people have been ready to move on from Greene since before her feud with Trump.
“She was in it for herself and not actually serving the people, so she didn’t accomplish anything,” Strickland said. “If you’re gonna be that divisive and belligerent all the time, then you’re never going to have open discussions to create common solutions for people.”
Jared Craig, an attorney in Newnan and the vice president of Veterans for America First, said that fiery approach to politics was more effective when the GOP was in the minority.
“Her brand was well suited for being the underdog,” he said. “But once you get to the point of winning, I don’t think that she had a real sense of what to do at that point.”
Other candidates criticized Greene for her abrupt departure from Congress.
Though both said they were grateful for the attention Greene brought the district, Beau Brown, who works in risk management, said her resignation “left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth,” and Jenna Turnipseed, a farmer and an Army veteran, said she “didn’t see a lot of reasoning for Greene’s “immediate political shifts on things like (Affordable Care Act) subsidies.”
Nicky Lama, who resigned his Dalton City Council seat to run, said, “Everybody, including myself, just wants to know what changed, what happened?” And Reagan Box, who ended her Senate campaign to run for the seat, said a lot of voters felt “shafted” because they had supported her.
Black and Box also worried about the cost of putting on a special election, and Strickland said she had “zero respect for someone who promised her constituency a term and then left.”
“We kind of feel sad for her,” Craig said. “That’s kind of the real tone. Because she had opportunity and it’s just sad where she chose to take it.”
Guldenschuh, the host of the weekly conservative talk show, doesn’t think denouncing Greene will benefit the field. Many voters in the district still “love” Greene, he said, and wish she and Trump could’ve worked out their disagreements.
“I think (the candidates) should be very proud and honored that we had somebody like Marjorie representing us for as long as she did,” he added.
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