{"id":68658,"date":"2026-03-10T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/special-election-replacing-marjorie-taylor-greene-goes-to-runoff-between-trump-endorsed-candidate-and-democrat\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:55:07","slug":"special-election-replacing-marjorie-taylor-greene-goes-to-runoff-between-trump-endorsed-candidate-and-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/special-election-replacing-marjorie-taylor-greene-goes-to-runoff-between-trump-endorsed-candidate-and-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Special election replacing Marjorie Taylor Greene goes to runoff between Trump-endorsed candidate and Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The special election to fill former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s<\/a> vacant House seat in Georgia’s solidly red 14th Congressional District is headed to a runoff next month.<\/p>\n

The seat \u2014 in northwestern Georgia \u2014 was left vacant when Greene stepped down at the beginning of January. Green quit Congress with a year left in her term, after a very public falling out with President Donald Trump<\/a> over the Epstein files. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s special election ended in a runoff between Trump-endorsed Republican District Attorney Clay Fuller and retired Army veteran Shawn Harris.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Currently, the GOP clings to a razor-thin 218\u2013214 majority in the House. As a result, Republicans cannot afford any surprises and allow the Democrats to pull an upset in a district Trump carried by a whopping 37 points during his 2024 presidential election victory.<\/p>\n

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All 17 candidates in Tuesday’s special election in Georgia, regardless of party affiliation, were on the same ballot. Twelve were Republican, three were Democrat.<\/a><\/p>\n

Since no contender topped 50% of the vote in the primary, the top two candidates are advancing to the April 7 runoff.<\/p>\n

Harris, a retired Army brigadier general got 39.9% of the vote, while Fuller, a district attorney for the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit, got 34.2%.<\/p>\n

HOUSE GOP FEARS PRIMARY LOSERS COULD JEOPARDIZE RAZOR-THIN MAJORITY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

With $4.3 million raised, Harris was the fundraising champion among all 17 candidates, but Fuller has a Trump endorsement in a district the president won handily.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fuller teamed up with the president recently during a stop in the district at an event in Rome, Georgia, during which he described himself as a “MAGA warrior.” In addition to his Trump-backing, Fuller is also backed by the politically potent and deep-pocketed fiscally conservative group the Club for Growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Former Congresswoman Greene \u2013 once a top Trump ally in the House, turned vocal critic of his \u2013 ultimately stayed neutral in the race to succeed her.<\/p>\n

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Third place Tuesday evening went to former state Sen. Colton Moore, a vocal Trump backer who enjoyed support from the far right. Moore garnered 10.9% of the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The special election to fill former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s vacant House seat in Georgia’s solidly red 14th Congressional District is headed to a runoff next month. The seat \u2014 in northwestern Georgia \u2014 was left vacant when Greene stepped down at the beginning of January. Green quit Congress with a year left in her … 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-68658","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\/68658","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=68658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}