发布时间：2026年2月6日，美国东部时间凌晨5:00 | 来源：CNN政治频道
在寻求填补前共和党众议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林（Marjorie Taylor Greene）空出的席位的候选人中，有一位是她的前助手吉姆·塔利（Jim Tully）。今年1月，塔利在当地一档保守派电台节目中自我介绍时，直到主持人提问才提及与格林的关系。
塔利表示，格林的离职使“选区出现了明显的空缺”，并补充说，他在格林11月宣布辞职后几乎立即宣布参选，目的是让选民有机会“重新开始”。
“我不能让选民们一直猜测接下来会发生什么，”他说，“我必须给他们一些希望。”
其他候选人对这位前国会女议员的评价更为尖锐。
前消防员兼急救员詹姆斯·马蒂·布朗（James Marty Brown）表示，格林的政治处事方式“分裂了很多人”。
“她就像一只追逐羽毛的猫，只盯着那些闪亮的小物件，而不愿退后一步看看大局，”他最近接受CNN采访时说。
在竞逐取代格林的共和党候选人中，他们对格林的辞职以及她与唐纳德·特朗普总统的分歧的表态呈现出明显模式。那些因之前参与当地共和党政治活动而知名度较高的候选人，在表现对特朗普的忠诚与对格林的尊重之间寻求平衡，而新人则更毫不犹豫地对格林进行批评。
CNN采访或梳理了16位宣布参选的共和党人中的12位的公开评论。这些候选人将在3月10日的初选中角逐，获胜者很可能进入4月的决选。
几乎所有人都声称自己将成为特朗普在当地最得力的盟友。超过半数候选人表示，他们经常听到选民提及格林，包括那些称因她在第三届任期中途辞职而感到困惑和被背叛的人。
佐治亚州罗马市的律师大卫·古登舒（David Guldenschuh）在WLAQ-AM电台主持一档每周保守派脱口秀节目，他指出，佐治亚州第14选区是美国最支持特朗普的地区之一，尤其是在靠近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。
“特朗普总统在这里非常受欢迎，所以你会看到候选人正如我所说，试图相互‘超越特朗普’（out-Trump each other），”古登舒补充道，他曾担任弗洛伊德县共和党主席。
特朗普本周支持了克莱·富勒（Clay Fuller），富勒辞去当地地区检察官职务参选此次补选。富勒最近表示，即使政府与其意见不一致，他最终也会支持总统。
“如果他们说‘这是我们要做的’，他们对什么对美国人民最有利有非常坚定的看法，”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）上表示，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，塔利称自己曾作为格林在选区的“耳目”，将当地民意传达给她的办公室。
不过，在最近的采访中，塔利在古登舒的节目中大部分时间都在向听众推销自己与选区的联系。
“当我们一度如此迷恋格林议员时，有时又突然感到幻灭，甚至非常愤怒，人们需要知道，有人在乎并说‘等等，我不会让这种情况发生’，”他说。
该选区南部的前县议员兼商人布赖恩·斯托弗（Brian Stover）12月接受《福克斯新闻数字版》采访时表示，他有不同的策略。
“我尊重她所做的一切，”斯托弗说，“她为选区工作过，但我的策略不同。我会坐下来进行良好的交谈……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。
“你不能一味地像公牛闯进瓷器店一样行事，”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“离开为以特朗普为核心的团结新篇章打开了大门”。
“我认为共和党绝对存在问题，尤其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’支持者的明确领袖。格林议员提出了重要关切，以督促人们负责，我感谢她为选区所做的努力。”
摩尔本人也曾与共和党人发生过冲突。他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闯入众议院参加联合演讲而被捕。他在声明中表示，他“不是来当任何人的复制品的”。
政治新人更直接批评格林
尽管所有新人都没有将对格林的评价作为竞选核心，但其中几位在接受CNN采访时迅速对其进行了批评。
前联邦紧急事务管理局（FEMA）员工斯塔·布莱克（Star Black）表示，如果格林再次参选，她早就开始在初选中挑战格林了。她称自6月宣布竞选以来与选民的交谈显示，格林的“分裂性”有多大。
“（格林）从未有过如何解决问题的计划，但她确实能抢到头条来抱怨，”布莱克告诉CNN。
以“回归常态”为竞选纲领的梅格·斯特里克兰德（Meg Strickland）是唯一一位公开批评特朗普的共和党候选人，她表示赞同布莱克的观点。
在选区东南部亚特兰大郊区一带拉票时，斯特里克兰德称，早在格林与特朗普发生争执前，人们就已准备好向前看。
“她是为自己谋利，而非真正服务人民，所以她没做成什么事，”斯特里克兰德说，“如果你一直那么分裂和好斗，就永远不会有开放的讨论来为人们创造共同解决方案。”
纽南市律师、美国优先退伍军人组织副主席贾里德·克雷格（Jared Craig）表示，这种激进的政治风格在共和党处于少数党时更有效。
“她的品牌很适合扮演‘失败者’角色，”他说，“但一旦你到了要赢的阶段，我认为她当时并没有真正意识到该怎么做。”
其他候选人则批评格林突然辞去国会议员职务。
尽管都表示感激格林为选区带来的关注度，风险管理从业者博·布朗（Beau Brown）称她的辞职“让所有人都感到不快”，而农民兼陆军退伍军人珍娜·特尼普西（Jenna Turnipseed）表示，她“没看到格林在像《平价医疗法案》补贴等问题上突然转变政治立场的合理解释”。
辞去道尔顿市议会席位参选的尼基·拉玛（Nicky Lama）表示：“所有人，包括我自己，都想知道发生了什么变化，是什么原因？”而结束参议院竞选转而参选该席位的里根·博克斯（Reagan Box）称，许多选民因支持格林而感到“被欺骗”。
布莱克和博克斯还担忧补选的成本，斯特里克兰德则表示，她“完全不尊重一个向选民承诺任期却中途离开的人”。
“我们对她感到难过，”克雷格说，“这就是真实的语气。因为她本有机会，却选择了一条令人遗憾的道路。”
古登舒认为，谴责格林对整个竞选领域并无益处。他指出，该选区许多选民仍“爱戴”格林，希望她和特朗普能解决分歧。
“我认为（候选人）应该为我们曾有玛乔丽这样的代表而感到自豪和荣幸，”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.
