{"id":68963,"date":"2026-03-14T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/democratic-lead-in-georgia-special-election-signals-change-in-partys-fortunes\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:56:08","slug":"democratic-lead-in-georgia-special-election-signals-change-in-partys-fortunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/democratic-lead-in-georgia-special-election-signals-change-in-partys-fortunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic lead in Georgia special election signals change in party\u2019s fortunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Race to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s seat provides glimpse into midterms with Iran and immigration on voters\u2019 minds<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a steady trickle of voters casting ballots in Dalton at Georgia\u2019s City Hall offered a glimpse into what may be changing fortunes for Democrats in Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s former congressional district.<\/p>\n<p>The district hasn\u2019t elected a Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/2026\/03\/what-the-numbers-say-about-the-race-to-replace-greene\/\">since it was created after the 2010 Census<\/a>. But the party\u2019s candidate Shawn Harris drew the most votes district-wide \u2013 about 37% \u2013 on Tuesday and now faces Clay Fuller, a Trump-endorsed former prosecutor as his opponent in an April runoff election. The winner will finish Greene\u2019s term until November, when a whole new election will take place.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/14\/democrats-georgia-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s seat provides glimpse into midterms with Iran and immigration on voters\u2019 minds Earlier this week, a steady trickle of voters casting ballots in Dalton at Georgia\u2019s City Hall offered a glimpse into what may be changing fortunes for Democrats in Marjorie Taylor Greene\u2019s former congressional district. The district hasn\u2019t &#8230; <a title=\"Democratic lead in Georgia special election signals change in party\u2019s fortunes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/democratic-lead-in-georgia-special-election-signals-change-in-partys-fortunes\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democratic lead in Georgia special election signals change in party\u2019s fortunes\">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-68963","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\/68963","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=68963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}