Republican prosecutor Clay Fuller won the special election to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in the House, NBC News projects, defeating Democrat Shawn Harris in a runoff in Georgia on Tuesday.
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The special election to fill the remainder of Greene’s term in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District went to a runoff after no candidate in the crowded all-party primary earned a majority of the vote last month. But Fuller, who is a district attorney, was the firm favorite after Republican candidates combined to get about 60% of the vote in the first round.
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Fuller also entered the Tuesday runoff with President Donald Trump’s endorsement, in a district Trump carried by 37 percentage points in the 2024 presidential race.
Fuller pitched himself as the best choice for those who “100% support President Trump,” touting the endorsement on the airwaves and appearing with the president at an event in the district. He also played up his record as a local prosecutor, a lieutenant colonel in the Georgia Air National Guard and a White House fellow in the first Trump administration.
Greene, initially one of Trump’s closest allies in the House, resigned in January after she broke with the president over his handling of the release of files related to the investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Harris, a retired Army brigadier general and cattle rancher, raised $6.4 million this election cycle and launched ads knocking “out-of-touch politicians” from both parties who “don’t understand how difficult things are for hardworking Georgians.”
The Democrat earned slightly more votes than Fuller in the primary election, in which the total Republican vote was split between 17 candidates.
In the March primary, Harris and Fuller eliminated Republican former state Sen. Colton Moore, who questioned the Trump administration’s handling of the release of the Epstein files and has made a name for himself as a disrupter.
But Moore was also a staunch defender of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” agenda. Moore has said he was the first Georgia elected official to claim fraud in the 2020 presidential election, and he publicly attacked Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who investigated Trump over allegations of election racketeering.
As national political dynamics played out in the election, large super PACs jumped in to throw their weight behind Trump’s pick.
Two super PACs backing Fuller, Club for Growth and Conservatives for American Excellence, have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to run similar messages.
And at a Cobb County Republican Party candidate forum, candidate Reagan Box accused Fuller of taking money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.
“AIPAC is not a foreign organization. I’m happy to have their support,” Fuller said, adding: “There is no room for antisemitism in the Republican Party, and that’s what you just heard from Reagan Box.”
Campaign finance reports didn’t make clear whether Fuller had received money from groups affiliated with AIPAC.
Greene jumped in on X, asking who the AIPAC-backed candidate in the race was. “There may not be an official endorsement but funded indirectly,” she wrote. “They have one, they always do. Remember I never took money from them.”
The organization congratulated Fuller on March 10 on advancing to the runoff and slammed Greene, saying that she had “worked throughout her tenure to weaken the U.S.-Israel relationship.”
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