The Georgia run will fill Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat in the GOP majority poll

ROME, GA — Republican congressional candidate Clay Fuller says Tuesday’s special election in Georgia is “very important.”

Fuller is facing Democrat Shawn Harris in the race to fill the seat in Georgia’s solidly red 14th Congressional District — in the northwest part of the state — left vacant when MAGA hotshot Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned in early January. Greene left Congress a year into his term, after falling out with President Donald Trump.

The special election, held on the same day as a state Supreme Court race in battleground Wisconsin, comes as Republicans cling to a slim 218–214 majority in the House. The GOP cannot afford any surprises and allow the Democrats to make noise in the special election, in a district that Trump carried by 37 points in his 2024 presidential victory.

“We need to be strengthened,” Fuller, a local district attorney and lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard who has served in the Air Force since 2009, insisted in an interview with Fox News Digital on the eve of the election, as he pointed to a fragile GOP majority. “I think the voters of Georgia 14 understand that, and they look forward to sending MAGA America’s first striker to Capitol Hill to support that agenda.”

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Asked if he was worried MAGA supporters would turn out for what could be a low turnout since the president is not on the ballot, Fuller said voters “will be crawling around the glass to make sure they have a lawyer who will fight for them and fight for President Trump, and that’s why we’re going to have ballots coming out on April 7.”

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

“I’m a Democrat, but I’m not tied to a party,” Harris emphasized while speaking to Fox News Digital. And Harris countered, “My opponent, Clay, can’t say that. He basically sold his soul to President Trump.”

Harris, pointing to rising gas prices fueled by Trump’s attack on Iran, said that when voters “go to the polls, they’re going to have to stop at the pump, and that’s going to be the last thing on their mind before they go to the polls. And they’re going to say, ‘You know, Shawn Harris is the only one talking about cutting costs, only Shawn says Harris stops here. Northwest Georgia, period.’

“We will win this war militarily. However, if we don’t look at it and make it clear to the American people, based on these gasoline and diesel prices, we may actually lose this war politically.”

Harris said he would “support President Trump on things like the southern border.” But he added that “when it comes to things like…eternal war. Send me. I’ll back down.”

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

Harris received 37% of the vote, while Fuller had 35% among the 17-member field, including 12 Republicans, in the first round of voting in early March. With no candidate exceeding 50%, Harris and Fuller advanced to Tuesday’s runner-up.

The congressional seat — which stretches from the outskirts of Atlanta to the state’s northwest border with Alabama and Tennessee — was left vacant when Greene left Congress a year into his term, after publicly falling out with Trump over his push to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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

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

Asked if he had spoken to Greene, Fuller said he “has contacted Rep. Greene, had conversations with him and received advice about the district, and I will keep those conversations confidential.”

Harris, who lost to Greene by 29 points in his 2024 re-election bid, insisted that “I’m not running with Marjorie Taylor Greene anymore,” and that her name “carries more weight than any other name in this district.”

If Harris loses but holds Fuller’s margin 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 he overworked.

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The tussle at the ballot box in Northwest Georgia isn’t the only struggle in Tuesday’s election. There is also a battleground state Supreme Court election in Wisconsin.

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

With the majority of the court present from last year’s tournament, outside money has poured in and the door knockers have been wearing Wisconsin. One of the biggest spenders was Trump ally Elon Musk, who made headlines in the days leading up to the election and donned a cheesehead hat worn by Green Bay Packers fans.

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

Democrats won that election by a larger margin than expected and currently hold a 4-3 majority Wisconsin supreme court.

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With a succession of justices set to retire, the majority is not at stake in this year’s election, although if former Democrat Justice Chris Taylor wins, liberals could increase their majority on the high court to 5-2.

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