Republican Clay Fuller, a district attorney backed by President Donald Trump, has won Tuesday’s special election runoff in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, securing the House seat vacated earlier this year by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The race was called approximately 90 minutes after polls closed with Fuller holding 55.9% of the votes and his Democratic opponent, Shawn Harris, at 44.1%. This narrow victory in the heavily Republican northwest Georgia district provides Republicans with a small margin to maintain their narrow majority in the House.
Greene defeated Harris by nearly 30 percentage points (64.4% to 35.6%) in 2024.
The contest drew national attention as an early test of Trump’s influence in down-ballot contests, with Fuller running as a staunch supporter of the president’s “America First” agenda.
This victory followed a crowded March special election that neither candidate won outright, forcing a runoff under Georgia law. Greene resigned from Congress in January after publicly breaking with Trump, leaving the seat open in a district the president carried decisively in recent elections.
Fuller consolidated Republican support after the initial round, overcoming Harris’ early fundraising advantage and first-round plurality finish.
The outcome is expected to bolster Republicans’ narrow majority in the House, where control has remained closely divided. Harris, a retired U.S. Army brigadier general who campaigned as a moderate Democrat with a rural background, sought to appeal to independents and disaffected Republicans but faced long odds in a district that has consistently favored GOP candidates by wide margins.
Fuller will serve the remainder of Greene’s term, which runs through January 2027, and is expected to seek a full term in the November midterm elections.
The race unfolded against a backdrop of national political tensions, including debates over foreign policy and Trump’s leadership, but local partisan dynamics ultimately prevailed in the deeply conservative district.
