Georgia runoff to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat tests GOP majority

ROME, Ga. — Republican congressional candidate Clay Fuller said Tuesday’s special election runoff in Georgia is “extremely important.”

Fuller faces Democrat Shawn Harris in the race to fill the seat in Georgia’s deep-red 14th Congressional District in the northwestern part of the state left vacant when MAGA firebrand Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned in early January. Greene left Congress with a year left in her term after a bitter dispute with President Donald Trump.

The special election, held on the same day as the state Supreme Court contest in the battleground state of Wisconsin, comes as Republicans cling to a razor-thin 218-214 majority in the House of Representatives. The GOP can’t afford any surprises and can’t allow Democrats to pull off an upset in a special election in a district where Trump holds a whopping 37 points for a 2024 presidential victory.

“We need reinforcements,” Fuller, a local district attorney and lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard who has been with the Air Force since 2009, said in an interview with Fox News Digital on the eve of the runoff elections, pointing to the GOP’s fragile majority. “I think voters in Georgia 14 understand this and are looking forward to sending a MAGA America first warrior to Capitol Hill to support this agenda.”

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When asked if MAGA supporters would turn out in what could be a low-turnout election because the president isn’t on the ballot, Fuller said voters will “come in through the window to make sure there’s a representative up there that’s going to fight for them and fight for President Trump, so we’re going to make sure the votes come pouring in on April 7.”

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Harris, a cattle rancher who spent four decades in the military and retired as an Army Brigadier General, needs support from crossover Republicans to pull off an upset.

“I’m a Democrat, but I’m not affiliated with the party,” Harris told Fox News Digital. Harris also argued: “My opponent, Clay, cannot say that. He actually sold his soul to President Trump.”

Pointing to rising gas prices fueled by Trump’s military strike on Iran, Harris said voters “when they go to the polls, they’re going to have to stand at the pump, and that’s the last thing they’re going to think about before they go and vote. And they’re going to say: ‘You know, the only one talking about cutting costs is Shawn Harris, the only one saying, ‘I’m going to defend the people here in Northwest Georgia,’ is Shawn Harris, period.”

“We’re going to win this war militarily. But if we don’t watch and we don’t get clear with the American people on these gas and diesel prices, we may actually lose this war politically.”

Harris said she would “support President Trump on issues like the southern border.” But he added: “When it comes to things like forever war. Send me. I’ll hold back.”

Fuller said: “Voters in Georgia-14 support the president in this effort. They understand that the Iranian regime is a long-term threat to our national security… They understand that President Trump has made the world safer, and they understand that there may be a short-term shortage at the gas pump, and they will expect those prices to drop as soon as this conflict is over.”

In the first round of voting in early March, Harris received 37% of the votes, while Fuller reached 35%. Since no candidate got over 50%, Harris and Fuller advanced to Tuesday’s runoff election.

The congressional seat, which stretches from the outer suburbs of Atlanta to the state’s northwestern borders with Alabama and Tennessee, was left vacant when Greene left Congress with a year remaining in her term.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks at a news conference with 10 alleged victims of disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein in front of the U.S. Capitol on September 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

While Greene remains popular among Republicans in the district, Fuller said voters he spoke to on the campaign trail “are focused on the fights of the future, not anything that’s happened in the past.”

When asked if he had spoken to Greene, Fuller said, “The representative said he reached out to Greene, chatted with her and sought advice about the district, and I will keep those conversations confidential.”

Harris, who lost to Greene by nearly 29 points as a first-time candidate in the 2024 re-election, emphasized that “I am no longer running against Marjorie Taylor Greene” and that her name “carries more weight than any other name in this district.”

If Harris loses but keeps Fuller’s lead in the mid-teens or less, national Democrats will argue that the election is the latest in nearly 15 months since Trump returned to the White House, where they have overperformed.

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The ballot box fight in Northwest Georgia isn’t Tuesday’s only election showdown. There’s also a state Supreme Court election in battleground Wisconsin.

Although officially a nonpartisan contest, state Supreme Court elections in Wisconsin have become extremely partisan in recent years.

With the court’s majority on the line in last year’s contest, outside money poured in and door knockers from out of state flooded Wisconsin. One of the biggest spenders was Trump ally Elon Musk, who headlined a rally days before the election and wore the cheese-head hat worn by Green Bay Packers fans.

Then-Trump advisor Elon Musk attended a town hall meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in March. Musk and his super PACs spent more than $2 million to support conservative Supreme Court nominee Brad Schimel’s campaign. (Scott Olson/Getty)

Democrats won this election by a larger margin than expected and now hold a 4-3 majority. Wisconsin’s highest court.

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With the retirement of the conservative judiciary, a majority is out of the question in this year’s elections; But if State Court of Appeals Judge Chris Taylor, a former Democratic state representative, wins, liberals will increase their majority on the high court to 5-2.

If conservative Court of Appeals Judge Maria Lazar wins or keeps the margins close, the GOP could claim a moral victory.