Republican congressional candidate Clay Fuller advanced to a runoff following a Tuesday special House election, cementing his status as the overwhelming favorite to replace former Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Fuller, who had the “Complete and Total Endorsement” of President Donald Trump, will face Democratic candidate Shawn Harris in an April 7 special runoff election to complete the remainder of Greene’s term, where Fuller is expected to win due to the Georgia 14th congressional district’s strong Republican lean. As of 8:15 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Harris has 41.5% of the vote, while Fuller had 33.5% — with other Republicans finishing between third and fifth place in the crowded special election — with 53% of the vote counted, according to the Associated Press (AP).
Upon announcing his endorsement of Fuller on Feb. 5, Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that the former District Attorney and Air National Guard officer was “strongly supported by the most Highly Respected MAGA Warriors in Georgia, and many Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives.”
“HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN!” the president added in the post at the time.
Fuller ran against Greene in 2020 — the cycle in which the right-wing firebrand was first elected to Congress. He came in a distant fourth place in the Republican primary, receiving 6.8% of the vote, compared to Greene’s 40.3%.
Harris, a retired U.S. Army brigadier general and farmer, lost the 2024 general election to Greene by a 29-point landslide margin.
Republican Georgia State Sen. Colton Moore finished in a distant third place with 9.7% of the vote. Moore vowed to join the conservative House Freedom Caucus if elected and notably had the backing of former Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz and gun rights activist Kyle Rittenhouse. Republican Brian Stover finished in fourth with 4.9%, followed by Tom Gray in fifth with 3.0% and Democrat Jim Davis in sixth with 1.6%. A total of 17 candidates were on the ballot.
Trump carried the 14th district by 37 percentage points in the 2024 presidential election — his best margin in the entire state of Georgia.
Greene represented the seat from January 2021 until her resignation, which took effect Jan. 5. The former congresswoman, who entered political office as a staunch Trump ally, became critical of the president’s administration in late 2025, particularly during a debate on a discharge petition forcing the House to vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Trump withdrew his support for Greene in November of that year, writing in a Truth Social post that the then-lawmaker “has told many people that she is upset that I don’t return her phone calls anymore.”
“I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they too are fed up with her and her antics and, if the right person runs, they will have my Complete and Unyielding Support. She has gone Far Left, even doing The View, with their Low IQ Republican hating Anchors,” the president added in his post, referring to Greene’s appearance on the daytime talk show earlier in November 2025.
Greene announced her impending departure from Congress just one week later.
In recent weeks, the former congresswoman has emerged as a vocal critic of the Trump administration’s strikes on Iran, going as far as to say the late February military operation — that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — “feels like the worst betrayal” of the America First movement.
“We thought the victory won in 2024 would be finally time to put America First,” Greene wrote in a Feb. 28 X post, hours after Trump announced Operation Epic Fury. “Now, America is going to be force fed and gas lighted all the ‘noble’ reasons the American ‘Peace’ President and Pro-Peace administration had to go to war once again this year, after being in power for only a year. Head-spinning, but maga.”
Georgia will also hold a May 19 primary, and a June 16 runoff if necessary, for the regularly scheduled November election for the 14th district.
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