A high-stakes special election in Georgia is now headed to a runoff after no candidate secured a majority of the vote in Tuesday’s crowded race to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Congress.
Republican Clay Fuller, a district attorney for the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit who received the “complete and total endorsement” of President Donald Trump, will face Democrat Shawn Harris, a retired U.S. Army brigadier general and cattle farmer, in an April 7 runoff.
The race to fill Georgia’s 14th Congressional District seat drew a crowded field of candidates from multiple parties. Because Georgia uses a jungle-primary system, all candidates appeared on the same ballot, and the top two vote-getters advance if no one wins more than 50 percent.
Early results showed Harris receiving about 36.9% of the vote, while Fuller finished second with roughly 35.2%, sending both candidates into the runoff.
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Fuller’s campaign was boosted by the endorsement of Donald Trump, who publicly backed the prosecutor earlier in the race.
The president’s support helped elevate Fuller in a crowded field that included numerous Republican candidates competing for the conservative base in the district.
On the flip side, Shawn Harris – a retired Army brigadier general and failed 2024 challenger to Greene – slithered into the runoff by consolidating the Democrat vote in this deep-red district that Trump carried by a whopping 37 points in 2024.
The seat became vacant earlier this year when Greene resigned from Congress, triggering a special election to fill the remainder of her term.
Greene’s abrupt resignation in January 2026 came after a public spat with President Trump.
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