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Posted: 2022-01-24T22:52:38Z | Updated: 2022-01-24T22:52:38Z

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wont return to Congress for a second term without confronting some opposition from Republicans in her Georgia district, where several challengers are trying to knock her out in the GOP primary.

Greene is still highly favored to win a second term, but her opponents underscore the frustration some in the party have with the congresswomans relentless focus on extreme rhetoric over actual legislating.

Im very concerned with the direction of our country. We need a serious representative who actually wants to do the work, wants to go to committee hearings, wants to serve constituents, wants to work with colleagues to craft meaningful policy and frankly we dont have that today, one of her challengers, 35-year-old Jennifer Strahan, told HuffPost.

Greenes GOP detractors say her antics may have established her nationally, but theyre embarrassing her constituents in Georgias 14th Congressional District. A year into her term, Greene has already been removed from committees for promoting violence toward Democrats . She has drafted articles of impeachment against Joe Biden , promoted baseless voter fraud conspiracies, championed those accused in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and forfeited much of her paycheck over fines for refusing to wear a mask on the House floor.

To Democrats, Greene is the face of an increasingly extreme and polarizing Republican Party , while the GOP has lately made her into a martyr for spreading bad information about COVID-19, which got her banned from Twitter and Facebook .

When the Silicon Valley monopolists silenced Donald Trump and kicked him off social media, when they did the same thing to Marjorie Taylor Greene, that should raise an alarm bell for all of us, J.D. Vance, a Republican running for U.S. Senate in Ohio, said at a town hall last week .

During a telephone town hall in November, Greene showed she doesnt change her tone when addressing her constituents, whom she asked to weigh in on topical issues such as vaccine mandates, election audits and the infrastructure law.

Do you support Congresswoman Greenes stance that the 13 House Republicans who voted for Bidens communist infrastructure bill betrayed their party? she asked the callers, telling them to press one if they agreed.

I work for you, Greene later told them. [Lawmakers] work for you.