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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Resignation Highlights Cracks in the MAGA Coalition

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Marjorie Taylor Greene announces she will leave Congress in January after a public split with Donald Trump on a variety of GOP policy stances. What does her exit say about who will lead the Republican party in the future? Plus, a Republican redistricting plan to redraw the map in Texas backfires, leading the way for the Supreme Court to decide.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:09.0

Marjorie Taylor Green says she'll resign from Congress after an online brawl with Donald Trump.

0:16.9

But is she really through with politics? And what does her split with the president say about the cracks

0:24.7

forming in the Trump political coalition? Plus, who's winning the gerrymander wars as the race for

0:31.1

control of the House heats up for 2026? Welcome to Potomac Watch, the daily podcast of Wall Street Journal Opinion. I'm Paul as you go,

0:39.3

and I'm here with Kyle Peterson and Alicia Finley. So Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Green,

0:46.4

once a Donald Trump favorite, who then became embroiled in a big fight with Donald Trump

0:53.0

because she criticized some of his decisions, the opposition

0:56.6

at first to releasing the Epstein files, some of the bombing in Iran, a lot of foreign trips

1:03.8

she opposed. Donald Trump turned on her instead of referring to her as Marjorie Taylor Green,

1:13.0

called her Marjorie Taylor Brown,

1:20.1

because, well, who the hell knows why the president said that. But in any case, she's going to resign from Congress in early January, she says. Let's listen to a portion of her explanation

1:26.9

in her rather lengthy resignation video that she posted last week.

1:32.3

If I am cast aside by the president and the MAGA political machine and replaced by neocons, big pharma, big tech, military industrial war complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can never

1:47.1

ever relate to real Americans, than many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.

1:53.6

Well, Kyle, is that a manifesto of someone who looks to be leaving politics or maybe just leaving

1:59.7

the house and thinking about where she might

2:03.0

run next could be statewide or maybe even bigger. It could be, and I don't know what Marjor

2:08.6

Taylor Green has in mind for her future, but I do think this resignation is not the end of this

2:13.3

style of politics. I think that we can be sure of. And you can hear in that clip that was just

2:20.3

played kind of what I would describe as the internet meme style of politics. And unfortunately,

2:26.8

to my view, it has taken over some of what is now happening in Congress, this push for this

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