'They hate me': Marjorie Taylor Greene defends her place on Georgia ballot at Trump rally

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene defended her place on the Georgia ballot at Donald Trump's rally Saturday.

A group of Georgia voters is challenging Greene's eligibility to run for re-election, saying she helped organize the riot on Jan. 6, 2021 at the U.S. Capitol that led to five people's deaths.

"The same nasty people in Washington who think they're better than you, that hate every single one of you because they hated President Trump and they hate me, they're trying to take away your right to vote in my district because now they're coming after me to remove my name off the ballot," Greene said to the crowd in Commerce, Ga.

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"Well let me inform them of something right now: You're gonna lose. You are not gonna take my name off the ballot because we will defeat you, and then when I'm finished playing defense, let me inform you of something else. In a game, there's another side, it's called offense. And I'm coming."

The challenge alleges Greene is ineligible under the 14th Amendment, saying that “before, on, and after January 6, 2021, Greene voluntarily aided and engaged in an insurrection to obstruct the peaceful transfer of presidential power, disqualifying her from serving as a Member of Congress.”

Greene called those filing the challenge "radical, nasty leftists."

Marjorie Taylor Greene goes on anti-trans speech about Pete Buttigieg, Lia Thomas

After talking about drilling for oil in the United States to combat rising gas prices, Greene also spoke about Pete Buttigieg, President Joe Biden's secretary of transportation, in a non-sequitur about keeping boys out of girls' bathrooms.

"We're gonna drill oil right here in the USA. And you know what, Pete Buttigieg can take his electric vehicles and his bicycles, and he and his husband can stay out of our girls' bathrooms."

She also took a swing at Lia Thomas, a trans swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania who won the NCAA national championship in the women's 500-yard freestyle.

Greene referred to Thomas by her dead name used before her transition.

"He needs to go back to men's swimming because we need to kick the biological men out of the women's sports," Greene said.

Greene: 'Stacey Abrams is the Death Star'

Greene also referred to Stacey Abrams, who is again running for governor, as "the Death Star" from the Star Wars franchise.

"Stacey Abrams thinks that she's president of Earth," she said, referring to Abrams' cameo in an episode of "Star Trek: Discovery." "Stacey Abrams is the Death Star, and we're gonna take her out in November."

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

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