Republican Clayton Fuller and Democrat Shawn Harris will face off in an April 7 runoff election to fill the remainder of the congressional term in northwest Georgia, following the resignation of former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
The two candidates advanced on March 10, 2026, from a crowded special election field that included more than 20 contenders seeking to represent Georgia’s 14th Congressional District.
Fuller, a local prosecutor and Air National Guard member, received a February endorsement from President Donald Trump and was a leading Republican candidate.
Harris, a retired Army brigadier general and cattle rancher, previously challenged Greene in the 2024 general election.
Crowded field sends race to runoff
Georgia election rules require a candidate to win more than 50 per cent of the vote to avoid a runoff. With 22 candidates appearing on the ballot, no candidate secured a majority in Tuesday’s vote.
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Early results showed Harris led with 41 percent, while Fuller had 33 percent with over half the ballots counted. Republican former state senator Colton Moore placed third with a little more than 10 per cent.
Despite Harris advancing to the runoff, Republicans are expected to remain heavily favoured in the district. The 14th District stretches from the northwest suburbs of Atlanta to the borders with Alabama and Tennessee and has consistently supported Republican candidates.
Trump carried the district by about 37 percentage points in the 2024 presidential election. Greene also won re-election in the district by a wide margin in 2024.
Seat vacant after Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned
Greene resigned from Congress in January after a public break with Trump over his handling of records connected to the federal investigation involving Jeffrey Epstein.
Once a close Trump ally, the former Republican representative criticized the president’s focus on foreign policy and questioned how the administration was applying its “America First” agenda.
“Loyalty should be a two-way street”, while Congress “has mostly been sidelined” under the Trump administration, Greene posted in a lengthy resignation statement on social media back in November 2025.
The 51-year-old former congresswoman from Georgia in her video statement said she had “always represented the common American man and woman as a member of the House of Representatives, which is why I’ve been despised in Washington, DC, and never fit in”.
“I will be resigning from office with my last day being January 5, 2026.”
Greene said she did not want her supporters and family to endure “a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for”.
President Trump responded to the news, saying, “I think it’s great news for the country”.
“It’s great,” ABC News quoted Trump as saying in an interview.
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Previously an icon of Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, Greene had a very public falling out with Trump.
The president in November announced that he was withdrawing all support for the congresswoman he described as “‘Wacky’ Marjorie”.
In her resignation statement, Greene referenced the Epstein controversy.
“Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich, powerful men should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the president of the United States, whom I fought for,” she said.
Her resignation triggered the special election to fill the remainder of her term.
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