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The QAnon Candidate

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Last week in Georgia’s 14th congressional district runoff, a Republican candidate who believes in the dangerous and baseless QAnon conspiracy theory came out on top. Marjorie Taylor Greene is now a shoo-in to win a seat in Congress. How did her candidacy get this far? And what does it mean for the Republican party? Guest: Greg Bluestein, political reporter at the Atlanta Journal Constitution Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:15.1

Just a quick heads up before we start today's episode.

0:18.6

There's some language in today's show.

0:21.3

Alright, here it is.

0:31.0

It's primary night in Rome, Georgia.

0:35.0

And for an experienced political reporter Greg Blustein, victory parties are an obligatory stop in any race he covers.

0:43.0

I've covered Georgia politics for about 20 years now in some form or fashion and plenty of candidate victory parties for winners and losers.

0:52.0

The race, a Republican runoff.

0:55.0

The favorite Marjorie Taylor Green has just won. And he's at her party.

1:01.0

So there's just kind of a walk right in there and I knew some people would nodded at them and sat in the back and started a very cramped hotel room.

1:09.0

I think I was the hotel conference room. I think I was the only one wearing a mask. But I started kind of live tweeting what she was saying.

1:16.0

Blustein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution quickly realized this wasn't the boilerplate victory speech, you know, thanking your opponent for a tough race.

1:27.0

Now let's all unify and win in November kind of thing.

1:31.0

There was no water under the bridge moment here. There was no conciliatory like, let's all make up.

1:35.0

This was like a napalm bomb that went off in Rome, Georgia. It was nothing but just more animosity.

1:43.0

They are terrified because I'm going to be their worst nightmare.

1:48.0

She had some very, very controversial remarks, including calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying she wants to kick that bitch out of Congress.

1:57.0

I just want to say to Nancy Pelosi, she's a hypocrite. She's an anti-American. And we're going to kick that bitch out of Congress.

2:06.0

This was all unusual. Maybe even surreal. But for Blustein, the night surprises didn't end there.

2:22.0

Basically, within minutes of me tweeting that line from Marge Telet Green, her campaign manager walked up to me.

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