Rome, Georgia (CNN) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation announcement sent a shock through her northwest Georgia district, even as people were monitoring her high-profile falling-out with President Donald Trump.

“It took me watching her resignation video for about 5 minutes to realize that it was not an AI-generated video — that’s how shocking it was for me,” said Ricky Hess, chairman of the Paulding County Republican Party. “And talking with everybody else, nobody saw this coming. I don’t know a single person who knew this was going to happen.”

Greene’s announcement Friday, which blindsided Republicans in Washington, is still reverberating in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, which stretches from Atlanta’s northwestern suburbs to the Appalachian foothills bordering Tennes

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