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.
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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