Donald Trump sees her as a "real winner".
Little known to the general public a few weeks ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene savored her "great victory" on the night of Tuesday 3 to Wednesday 4 November, after the announcement of her election to the House of Representatives.
This businesswoman, fervent Catholic and follower of certain conspiratorial theories, will sit on the benches of Congress on January 3, 2021, where she will represent the 14th district of Georgia.
A result that is not a surprise since his opponent, Democrat Kevin Van Ausdal threw in the towel in September, after 31 days of campaigning.
At a time when the eyes of the whole world are turned to the results of the American presidential poll, the election of this 46-year-old Republican to Congress could have gone unnoticed.
And yet, his provocations as his controversial positions worry even in the ranks of his own party.
Campaign without masks or physical distancing
Native of Milledgeville, a small town in the state of Georgia, this manager of a construction company campaigned on her own land, without masks or physical distancing.
Defining herself as "pro-life, pro-arms, pro-God", Marjorie Taylor Green did not hesitate to appear armed in her campaign clips, claiming to want to skin "socialism".
His arrival in the Lower House is a victory for the conservatives, but also ... An unexpected success for the followers of QAnon, a conspiracy movement that has spread on social networks.
In an effort to limit false information, platforms like Twitter had deleted thousands of accounts defending these theories this summer.
According to followers of this sphere of influence, President Donald Trump is on a secret mission to rid the United States of an elite cabal that controls a "deep state" hiding a sprawling network of "pedophiles".
"Compared to a classic conspiracy theory, with QAnon there are elements to be interpreted. It is not a ready-to-think, but a proposal to collaborate together to understand this world", analyzed with France 24 , Fabrice Epelboin, professor at Sciences Po and specialist in social networks.
Racist and Islamophobic views
The followers of Qanon are responsible for interpreting the messages of Q, the “digital prophet” of the movement, a mysterious user of the 4chan forum who claims to be an infiltrated mole in the White House.
As early as 2017, Marjorie Taylor Greene declared in a Youtube video - now deleted - that QAnon was nothing less than "the unique opportunity to destroy this global cabal of pedophiles who revere Satan", believing that Donald Trump was " the best president for that "
Other videos posted on his Facebook account and unearthed by the Politico site had revealed "racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic views."
Hours of nauseating speeches during which the candidate defended, among other things, that "racism no longer existed", that blacks were "slaves of the Democratic Party" or that Muslims were "not part of the government".
So many provocations that made Democrats and Republicans jump.
A distance with QAnon
Anxious not to offend potential voters, the candidate had softened her speech in recent weeks, distancing herself from the conspiracy movement.
Asked in August on Fox News, she even assured that she was "not a QAnon candidate" and that the movement "was not part of [her] campaign".
"When I started to find examples of disinformation there, I decided to take another path," she explained.
The Republican also tweeted on August 13 that she had finally accepted the idea that the Pentagon had been attacked by a hijacked plane on September 11, 2001, and not by a missile, as she had previously defended.
"The problem is that our government lies to us so much to protect the 'deep state' that it is sometimes difficult to know what is true or what is not," she sighed.
If she returned to some of her controversial positions, the elected representative of Georgia has not stopped sharing hateful content, even untruths on social networks.
In September, she wrote in a tweet - since deleted from the platform - that "children should not wear masks," rejecting recommendations from health experts, reports CNN.
A new showcase for the conspirators?
At the end of October, she had again posted on Facebook a photomontage of her posing, weapon in hand alongside Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib and encouraging "conservative Christians to go on the attack against socialists who want to tear the country apart ".
A publication since deleted by Facebook for "incitement to hatred", specifies the American site Business Insider.
Despite her recent distancing from QAnon, the elected Republican has given a particular showcase to the conspiracy movement.
What to attract new followers?
"Even though she is the first to openly assume support for these theories, several incumbent members of Congress have expressed similar views," recalls Mother Jones magazine, citing Texas Senator Ted Cruz, and his controversial positions on the LGBT community.
For many observers, the question now is whether QAnon is witnessing the start of a new political ascent or whether the Republican's entry into Congress will be its peak.
For the New York Times, the answer "will depend on the victory or not of Donald Trump", adding that his re-election to the White House "would risk swelling the ranks of conspiratorial followers".
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