Morning Consult reports:
If the Capitol Hill showdowns over the statuses of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney served as a window into the larger issues facing the Republican Party, the Wyoming Republican who successfully fended off a leadership referendum may have won the battle, but polling shows the controversial freshman from Georgia is taking ground in the larger war.
The share of Republican voters with opinions about Greene increased 13 points, with nearly all of the movement falling on the positive side. Three in 10 Republican voters hold favorable views of the freshman lawmaker, up 11 points in a week, while 23 percent view her unfavorably, virtually unchanged from the previous survey. The latest poll, conducted Feb. 5-7 among 1,986 registered voters, has a margin of error of 2 percentage points.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Gains Popularity With Republican Voters Following Committee Fight
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