{"id":68580,"date":"2026-03-10T06:58:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/georgia-votes-in-high-stakes-primary-for-marjorie-taylor-greenes-house-seat\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T06:58:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:58:40","slug":"georgia-votes-in-high-stakes-primary-for-marjorie-taylor-greenes-house-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/georgia-votes-in-high-stakes-primary-for-marjorie-taylor-greenes-house-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia votes in high-stakes primary for Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s House seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Election will be a test of Trump\u2019s sway and may provide a rare opportunity for Democrats in the southern state<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A special election for the successor to Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s congressional district in Georgia on Tuesday will be a test of Donald Trump\u2019s sway, and may provide a rare opportunity for Democrats in a deep-red pocket of the southern state.<\/p>\n<p>Republican former prosecutor Clay Fuller is likely to come out of Tuesday\u2019s jungle primary, in which the top two candidates go to a runoff regardless of party, alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/30\/shawn-harris-marjorie-taylor-green-georgia\">retired army general Shawn Harris<\/a>, a Democrat. The two would face a run-off election on 7 April.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/10\/marjorie-taylor-greene-house-seat-georgia-primary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election will be a test of Trump\u2019s sway and may provide a rare opportunity for Democrats in the southern state Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A special election for the successor to Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s congressional district in Georgia on Tuesday will be a test &#8230; <a title=\"Georgia votes in high-stakes primary for Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s House seat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/georgia-votes-in-high-stakes-primary-for-marjorie-taylor-greenes-house-seat\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Georgia votes in high-stakes primary for Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s House seat\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}