At least 22 candidates have filed to run for former GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district in northwest Georgia.
The group consists of veterans, farmers and enterprise house owners. Seventeen are Republicans. Some have challenged Greene up to now or have held native workplace, whereas others are newcomers to politics.
Few are speaking a lot about Greene or her legacy within the district, whereas a number of declare to be President Donald Trump’s greatest native ally.
While the deep-red district is all however sure to remain in Republican palms, the race may give a way for how voters come down on the split in the party between Greene and President Donald Trump.
All these candidates will run on the identical poll within the particular election on March 10. If no candidate wins a majority, the highest two candidates will advance to a runoff on April 7.
The info under comes largely from marketing campaign web sites and social media pages.
Colton Moore, a former state senator, calls himself “Trump’s No. 1 defender” within the district. Before he resigned to run within the particular election, he was expelled from the Senate Republican caucus in 2023 for ripping his colleagues over not agreeing to a particular session to question Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who obtained a since-dismissed indictment of Trump. At the time, Trump praised Moore, thanking him for his “courage and conviction.” Moore was banned from the state House flooring in 2024 for criticizing the late House speaker and was then arrested final January as he tried to push his method into the chamber through the State of the State handle.
Jim Tully is a former Greene staffer and the instant previous chair of the district’s Republican committee, though he hasn’t been highlighting his affiliation with the previous congresswoman through the marketing campaign to this point.
Clay Fuller is the elected district lawyer for the judicial district on the northwestern tip of the state. A self-proclaimed “America First district attorney,” Fuller says he’s running to carry manufacturing again to the district.
Brian Stover served on the Paulding County Board of Commissioners for 5 years earlier than unsuccessfully running for fee chairman. In an advert his marketing campaign stated ran through the Sugar Bowl, Stover says he has the identical mission as Trump: “to take out the trash.”
Nicky Lama, who calls himself “100% MAGA,” resigned from his publish on the Dalton City Council to enter the particular election. Lama owns contracting and actual property corporations, runs a farm and owns a restaurant in Dalton. He says he was impressed by marching along with his grandfather through the tea social gathering motion and voting for Trump in 2020 – the primary presidential election wherein he was old sufficient to vote.
Reagan Box is a horse coach and political newcomer. Box, who had been running for US Senate earlier than switching to the House race, casts herself as a Trump ally with an “America First” agenda.
Jenna Turnipseed runs a farm in northwest Georgia and serves as a highschool Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps teacher. She’s an Army veteran who says she now desires to cut back authorities spending, minimize taxes and “defend the values that built this country: faith, family, and hard work.”
James Marty Brown is a small enterprise proprietor and former firefighter and paramedic. Also a former aggressive angler and distance hiker, he lists “America First economic strength” as his prime precedence.
Tom Gray is the senior pastor on the nondenominational Mars Hill Community Church and founding father of an audio project which goals to “connect God’s truth and wisdom to people’s lives.”
Eric Cunningham, who works within the railroad business, challenged Greene within the 2022 GOP main however earned solely 6% of the vote. Cunningham calls himself a conservative however says he’s involved in regards to the social gathering alienating moderates and that he desires to symbolize the “whole Republican Party and independents.”
Beau Brown described himself in a December podcast as a conservative Christian and “homegrown candidate” who helps Trump however doesn’t need to be as flashy as Greene.
Star Black is a former Federal Emergency Management Agency worker and founder and CEO of 4 companies. She cites her time as a caregiver for her husband and her mom because the inspiration behind her platform to create a caregivers community of assets for households.
Jared Craig runs a regulation follow in Newnan, Georgia, about 30 miles south of the district. He unsuccessfully challenged then-Georgia Rep. Drew Ferguson within the 2022 Republican main.
Christian Hurd is a former US Marine who says his prime priorities embrace executing the president’s agenda, together with mass deportations, reducing prices by bringing manufacturing to the district and selling parental rights in schooling.
Trey Kelly, the previous chairman of the Fulton County Republican Party, is the Georgia govt director for the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors.
Meg Strickland, a journey advisor, is running on a “return to normal” – urging “steady leadership, respect, and accountability.”
Larry Hilley’s submitting lists him as self-employed and residing in Catoosa County.
Shawn Harris, who grew up on a Georgia household farm earlier than enlisting within the Marines and later serving within the Army, is one among three Democrats within the race. He raised $3.5 million to problem Greene within the deep-red district in 2024 however Greene, who’d raised practically $9 million, nonetheless beat him by practically 30 factors. Harris now says he sees her resignation as an “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to flip the seat.
Jim Davis says he doesn’t slot in both the Democratic or Republican events, although he’s running as a Democrat. He says his priorities are affordability and turning down the temperature in nationwide politics.
Jonathan Hobbs calls himself “The Patent Wizard” on his LinkedIn web page. He is a registered patent agent and works at boutique mental property agency in Atlanta.
Rob “Rush” Ruszkowski, who’s running as an impartial, says he was impressed to run by “No Kings” protests taking place throughout the nation in June. Ruszkowski helps Medicare for All and breaking apart large firms. He’s additionally began the Gaia Knights, which he describes as a “band and movement.”
Andrew Underwood, the lone libertarian within the race, says he has “no faith in either of the two parties to help us.” He calls himself a “homegrown Georgian,” and his platform consists of opposing authorities intervention in well being care; supporting a moratorium on knowledge facilities due to privateness considerations; reforming the immigration system; and opposing tariffs.