The race to become former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s successor will continue.
Tuesday’s special election for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, which has been vacant since Greene left Congress in January, ended with no candidate receiving 50% of the vote. The top two contenders to succeed the Republican firebrand will now advance to a runoff election in April.
According to a projection from The Associated Press, Democrat Shawn Harris and Trump-backed Republican Clay Fuller rose to the top of a crowded slate of candidates to serve out the remainder of Greene’s term in the House.
While the field narrowed slightly before Election Day, 12 Republican candidates, three Democrats, one independent and one Libertarian threw their hats in the ring in the reliably red district.
In 2024, Greene won re-election with almost 65% of the vote. However, one year into her third term, she abruptly announced that she would resign from Congress. Her decision came after several public spats with Donald Trump.
Once one of the president’s loudest defenders in Congress and a loyal supporter of his MAGA agenda, Greene started to clash with Trump and other Republicans in late 2025.
She criticized the president and members of her own party for their refusal to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies and was outspoken against the administration’s handling of the Epstein files.
In response, Trump labeled Greene a “traitor” and pledged to support “the right person” if they challenged her in the Republican primary.
In her resignation statement, Greene wrote: “I have too much self respect and dignity, love my family too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms.” In the end, the president threw his support behind Fuller, a former district attorney who worked in the White House during Trump’s first administration. In a Truth Social post in early February, Trump offered Fuller his “Complete and Total” endorsement and later appeared with the Republican during a rally in Rome, Georgia. Regardless of the results of Tuesday’s election, voters in Georgia’s 14th District will find themselves back at the polls in May, when members of each party will select candidates to run in November for a full term in Congress.
Allison Detzel is an editor/producer for MS NOW. She was previously a segment producer for “AYMAN” and “The Mehdi Hasan Show.”
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