Republican Clayton Fuller won the run-off in the special election in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District on Tuesday, 7 April. He defeated Democrat Shawn Harris by 12 percentage points, getting 56 per cent of the vote against his opponent’s 44 per cent.
The seat became vacant after Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of the Republican Party announced her resignation in November 2025, effective on 5 January, 2026. She made her decision to leave Congress following a number of disagreements with President Donald Trump from her own party.
Fuller, on the other hand, was endorsed by President Trump. He is a veteran of the US Air Force, reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and was deployed on active duty in the Middle East as recently as December 2024. In his campaign, he aligned himself with President Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda and was openly in favour of mass deportations.
🚨BREAKING: Trump-Endorsed Republican Clay Fuller has defeated Democrat Shawn Harris in the special election for Georgia’s 14th District to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene’s vacant seat. pic.twitter.com/kIQHcI52Jk
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 8, 2026
The special election had a so-called ‘jungle primary’ system with a run-off. Per this system, primary candidates of all parties compete with each other on the same ballot, and if no candidate surpasses the 50-per-cent threshold, the top two advance to a run-off election.
The first round was held on 10 March. Democrat Shawn Harris actually came in first with 37.3 per cent of the vote. However, that was due to the two prominent Republican candidates splitting the vote among each other, with Fuller getting 34.9 per cent and Colton Moore getting 11.6 per cent.
In the 7 April run-off, as we wrote above, Fuller won by a comfortable margin of 12 points.
That is a shift to the left by 16.5 points compared to Taylor Greene’s election in November 2024, who won by 28.5 points. However, such a movement is expected, given that the party in power tend to do worse in special and midterm elections, Republicans have a major advantage under President Trump with low-propensity voters, and the vote took place during the gas price hike caused by the US–Israeli strikes on Iran, which have now been halted after a ceasefire agreement.
With this result in Georgia, the GOP House delegation has gone up to 219, the Democrats stand at 213, while two seats are currently vacant.
2026 is evidently a midterm election year in the United States, which means that all 435 seats will be up for grabs this November. In the generic congressional ballot polling aggregate by RealClearPolitics, the Democratic Party is leading the Republicans by 5.8 points.
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