- It's a rainy Tuesday evening
outside the UCTV studio in northwest Georgia.
- Alright, Eddie and I tonight, as you well know,
when someone that's running for office announces,
we let them come here when they qualify.
They get 30 minutes, each one of them,
on "The Morning Show" and "Night Talk."
And then we bring them in to see you.
- And Republican Congressional candidate Jennifer Strahan
is preparing to go live on "Night Talk,"
a local public access cable show.
- And, Jennifer, as candidate for the 14th
Congressional District, state of Georgia,
and that would be Marjorie Taylor Greene's seat.
So thanks for coming. - Yeah, thank you for having me.
Good evening.
- Strahan launched her campaign back in September,
hoping to unseat the far-right Republican Congresswoman.
- You know, we can look back on a time in history
where people were told to wear a gold star,
and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens.
- Greene has been condemned by some members of her own party
for pedaling conspiracy theories
and associating with white nationalists.
- I think this is going to be
the beginning of something great.
The representative from Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene.
[cheers and applause]
-We need a representative who is willing to do serious work,
have serious conversations,
and bring value back to our district.
So first and foremost, we need to be on committees.
We need to actually have a representative
who's on committees, that wants to be on committees.
- Last February, the House voted to remove Greene
from her committee assignments.
Every Democrat and 11 Republicans
voted for the measure.
- Our district has no influence to push back
against these policies that are coming down.
It's not about just being loud.
It's about being effective.
- Okay, thanks for coming. - No, it's my pleasure.
Thank you. - Jennifer Strahan.
She's running for the 14th Congressional District,
state of Georgia, and that's the seat now held
by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
- In 2020, Greene easily won the conservative district.
- It's basically the group of people who live around I-75
between Atlanta and Chattanooga.
So it's industrial, it's agricultural,
it's a good mix of both.
It's just normal everyday working people.
There's not really a big metropolitan area.
- Silver is a political reporter in Calhoun, Georgia,
one of the many smaller towns that make up the 14th District.
- We have a weird political climate in Georgia right now,
and I think everybody knows
that a lot of money's being pumped in,
a lot of eyes are gonna be on Georgia
in a lot of different races
on a lot of different levels in November.
Well, probably I guess May all the way through.
- He notes that Strahan's two main tests,
especially in a non-presidential year,
are getting people to the polls and finding voters
who are tired of Greene's antics.
- I don't think so -- I would bet that it didn't,
but voters will surprise you.
So maybe it has turned enough folks off or some fringe voters
that say "You know what, that's not for me."
- Voters like TJ Kaikobad,
a restaurant owner in Dalton, Georgia.
- I don't want the person who just fights.
I want the person who will try and accomplish their manifestos.
And that's where -- As I said, when you look
at what they believe in, there's not a lot of difference.
But I believe Jennifer would create an environment
where people would listen to her.
When did it become that if I disagree with you,
we have to engage in uncivilized discourse?
- I think people are tired of the divisive rhetoric.
I think people are tired of words being thrown around
in a very nonchalant way, right?
"Traitor" is a very serious thing to say.
- It's a crime punishable by death is what treason is.
Nancy Pelosi is guilty of treason,
and we want her out of our government.
- The Congresswoman recently testified at a hearing
that focused on whether she should be barred
from holding office
because of her role in the January 6th insurrection.
- Ms Greene, did you advocate to President Trump
to impose martial law as a way to remain in power?
- I don't recall.
- So you're not denying you did it, you just don't remember.
- I don't remember. - Okay.
- Strahan cautiously pushed back on what Greene and others
in her party have said regarding the 2020 election being stolen.
- I think just like any system,
we have problems with our process.
I don't believe it was to the extent
where it would have changed the outcome.
- It's a balance that Strahan is trying to find
in a primary defined by not just how conservative you are,
but how much you fall in line with the former president.
- In the real world, we work with people every day
who disagree with us, who have different thoughts,
different experiences, different beliefs.
And we can still come together, we can find common ground,
and you can also recognize that at the end of the day,
you're not going to agree on everything.
I am conservative.
We're running in a Republican primary.
There's going to be overlap in our values
and the things that we agree to or believe in.
But at the end of the day, our tactics are different.
- Just a 20-minute drive from Rome, in Cedartown,
Greene was holding a town hall with her constituents.
- So while the national news media and the Washington --
the bubble in Washington, the swamp,
they want to tell everybody that MTG is crazy,
here's what I have to say to them.
No, it's you people that are crazy,
because the rest of the American people have had enough with it.
- She is what Georgia needs.
To me, it's not like politics altogether.
She is like -- She's above that, no bullcrap.
Just she's Marjorie.
- Is there anything she's done that you wish she hadn't?
- Not really, no.
Really.