The race to succeed former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is headed to a runoff on March 10 after a crowded primary field failed to produce a majority winner in a special election.
The Associated Press projected the runoff at 8:24 p.m. ET with 60 percent of the vote counted.
Republican Clay Fuller, the district attorney for the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit, and Democrat Shawn Harris, a retired brigadier general and cattle producer, will advance to the runoff in April.
Seventeen people, including 12 Republicans, competed for the seat in northwest Georgia’s 14th Congressional District.
Alongside Fuller, the field included former state Sen. Colton Moore, businessman Brian Stover, and former 14th District GOP chair Jim Tully. -- 📺 Watch NTD News 24/7 on cable, broadcast, and streaming: https://www.ntd.com/watch
Onto politics, the race to succeed former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is headed to a runoff.
A crowded primary field failed to produce a majority winner in yesterday's special election.
Democrat Sean Harris now will face Trump-backed Republican Clay Fuller in the April runoff. Here's more on that.
Trump-backed Republican Clay Fuller and Democrat Sean Harris will head into an April runoff in Georgia's 14th congressional district
to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in the U.S. House of Representatives.
State officials said Harris finished first with just over 37 percent of the vote,
while Fuller trailed closely behind in a crowded Republican candidate field.
With no one clearing a majority, the two now move on to next month's runoff, with Fuller favored to win.
The race has drawn national attention as it's seen as an early test of Donald Trump's pull in a district that's long been a MAGA stronghold.
In 2024, Greene easily won with nearly 65 percent of the vote.
At his election night watch party, Fuller said the results already felt like a victory.
I would describe this as an outright win.
We know that the endorsement from President Trump made a difference in this race, and we're going to go and win it.
I think it's time that the Republican vote unites and gets a representative to Capitol Hill as soon as possible.
But this is a win. This is an absolute win.
Harris, meanwhile, believes he can still break through in the district.
I don't have anything to lose. And the people now know me. They trust me.
And they say, you know what, this is the only person in the race that's talking directly to me, talking about kitchen table issues.
And he said very clearly that, hey, when I go to D.C., I'm a Democrat, but I'm not tied to a party versus my opponent.
The first thing that comes out of his mouth is I'm going to D.C. to help Donald Trump.
When somebody tells you they're going to help Donald Trump, they basically say that everybody else in this district don't count.
The winner of the April runoff will serve through the end of 2026.
However, they will have to campaign again for the full two-year term starting in January,
beginning with a May primary that could bring many of the same challengers back into the race.
