He?s raised and spent millions running against Marjorie Taylor Greene

Nor does it seem to matter that Flowers — or any Democrat, for that matter — is viewed as having little chance of unseating Greene, who won in 2020 with nearly 75 percent of the vote in one of Georgia’s most pro-Trump areas (although his name appeared on the ballot, the Democrat running against Greene that year dropped out early, citing personal reasons).“It’s important that we tell Marjorie Taylor Greene that not everyone likes her,” Luongo says by phone from Boca Raton, Fla., where he owns a language school. “I’m Marcus Flowers,” he likes to say, in an easy-on-the-ears baritone, “Army veteran and Democrat running to unseat Marjorie Taylor Greene.”This strategy helped him raise more than $8.1 million by early May, according to his most recent campaign finance report. “There’s a sense of people being tired of her shtick,” said Vinny Olsziewski, an adviser to Wendy Davis, another Democrat in the race (not to be confused with the former Texas state senator).How Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, promoter of QAnon’s baseless theories, rose with support from key Republicans (from 2021)Jen Jordan, a Georgia state senator supporting Flowers, said victories aren’t the only way to measure a long shot’s political value. “It’s about losing less,” said Jordan, who is running for attorney general.If Flowers can drive up turnout, Jordan says, he can help Democrats in tighter races — Sen. Raphael G. “He’s running for Congress, is that right?” After being reminded that Greene holds the seat Flowers hopes to win, Nickerson says he doesn’t need to know anything more to justify his contribution.“Democrats are irrationally throwing money into the campaign,” says Brian Robinson, a Republican strategist who advised the candidate who lost to Greene in the 2020 primary. “I’m Marcus Flowers, and I’m here to say, ‘No more,’” he said, crumpling the sticker.The video caught the eye of an Atlanta-based digital advertising and fundraising strategist named Bobby Kaple, whose firm, Blue Chip Strategies, produced Flowers’s first campaign video, in which the candidate talks about his military background amid images of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and references to some of Greene’s most outlandish statements.“Her twisted conspiracy theories may have helped make her famous, but they haven’t done a damn thing for the people here in the district,” Flowers says in the video.After entering the race, Flowers tried to get into a rally that Greene and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) held in Georgia and turned the outing into more social media content.