Republican Clay Fuller will face Democrat Shawn Harris in a runoff to replace former GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, NCS projects.
The race to succeed Greene, a former ally turned critic of President Donald Trump, has examined the ability of the president’s endorsement – and his affect over the social gathering – at a time when some Republicans have been prepared to break up with their social gathering’s chief.
Fuller, who resigned his position as a district legal professional to run in the particular, surged to the entrance of a crowded Republican area after snagging an endorsement from Trump in February. But the president’s help failed to slender the sphere of a dozen GOP hopefuls sufficient to permit his chosen candidate to win the seat outright.
“We’re the candidate that’s going to have his back on Capitol Hill,” Fuller advised reporters Tuesday outdoors a polling place in Rome, Georgia. “Even though some other candidates in this race may say that they’re 100% pro-Trump, I think it’s important for the voters to ask them what percentage they are now that President Trump has endorsed us.”
Several candidates in the race downplayed the significance of the president’s endorsement, at the same time as they pitched themselves as potential allies in Washington.
“We’ve never talked about this being President Trump’s district,” Jim Tully, a former Greene staffer operating in the race, advised NCS. “This district belongs to the people.”
The winner of the April 7 runoff will serve the rest of Greene’s time period ending in January.
Greene resigned from Congress earlier this yr after falling out with the president over her ramped-up criticism of his second time period in workplace. The Georgia Republican argued Trump was too centered on overseas coverage points as a substitute of addressing price of dwelling considerations. She was one in every of 4 Republicans who bucked the president and signed a discharge petition calling for the discharge of recordsdata on convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In Fuller, Republicans would regain a Trump ally and develop the social gathering’s slender majority in the US House.
Trump received the district by 37 share factors in 2024, so Fuller will likely be closely favored in the runoff. But this consequence means the seat will likely be unfilled for an additional month as Republicans strive to navigate a traditionally slender House majority.
Fuller’s tenure as an elected district legal professional meant he entered the race with some recognition, particularly in the district’s northern area close to Tennessee.
Fuller additionally benefited from over $1.8 million in advertisements supporting him, in accordance to AdImpact, together with help from two outdoors teams. Pro-Fuller advert spending was greater than double what was spent in help of his closest Republican rival.
Harris, a retired US Army brigadier normal, challenged Greene in 2024. While he misplaced to her by practically 30 factors then, he’s called the particular election a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to flip the seat.
As probably the most established of the three Democrats on the poll, Harris was in a position to seize the lion’s share of the Democratic vote.
While he’s centered his marketing campaign on an affordability message, he’s additionally casting himself as an outsider to politics.
Harris raised over $4 million since mid-2025 when he introduced he can be operating once more, greater than 4 occasions as a lot as his nearest Republican competitor.