Trump-endorsed Clay Fuller has won the special election in Georgia to replace former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Fuller defeated Democrat Shawn Harris to fill the empty House seat in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, which is a Republican stronghold.
“The Democrat Party poured millions of dollars into this campaign. Poured lies into this campaign. But they can’t beat Donald Trump,” Fuller said.
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“He was the difference maker,” Fuller told Fox News Digital following his victory. He was the key factor in us winning…. Our results prove that President Trump means a ton to Georgia-14.”
The seat was left vacant when MAGA firebrand Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stepped down at the beginning of January. Greene quit Congress with a year left in her term, after a bitter falling out with Trump.
The special election came as Republicans cling to a razor-thin 218–214 majority in the House. The GOP was under the gun to make sure the Democrats didn’t pull off an upset in the special election, in a district in northwest Georgia that Trump carried by a whopping 37 points in his 2024 presidential victory.
“It’s extremely crucial, and we need the reinforcements,” Fuller told Fox News Digital on the eve of the runoff election.
Fuller, a local district attorney and a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard who’s served in the Air Force since 2009, added, “I think the voters in Georgia 14 understand that, and they’re looking forward to sending a MAGA America first fighter up on Capitol Hill to support that agenda.”
Fuller held a 57 percent to 43 percent lead on Harris with about 92% of all votes counted, USA TODAY noted.
Republican Clay Fuller is projected to win a US House seat in a deeply conservative Georgia district even as Democratic gains serve as an early warning for GOP lawmakers https://t.co/EVz0xr3GQB
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While voter turnout seemed to be larger than the March 10 primary, the traditionally deep-red district backed Fuller, who was buoyed by an endorsement from President Donald Trump, who went twice on his Truth Social platform to encourage voters to support his candidate.
Harris lost to Greene by about 29 points in 2024, and the district – covering a mostly rural northwest corner of the state that stretches from Atlanta’s suburbs to the Appalachian mountains bordering Tennessee – has never been represented by a Democrat.
But Harris and his allies saw the environment as ripe for an upset, given Trump’s low approval numbers, coupled with shaky confidence in the economy and an unpopular war with Iran. That explained why national figures, including former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a rumored 2028 presidential contender, came to the district to support Harris’ underdog campaign.
Undeterred, Harris told his backers in defeat that they can still capture the elusive congressional seat in the midterm election come November.
“The thing I want to tell you is this, as far as I’m concerned, you heard me say earlier when I was talking to all our supporters, we had a win tonight,” Harris said.
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