Trump backs Clay Fuller in Georgia particular election for Greene seat

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It is Main Day in Republican-dominated Mississippi, the place Home and Senate nomination contests are being held within the Deep South state.

However a particular congressional election 200 miles to the east in battleground Georgia to fill a vacant GOP-held congressional seat will seemingly seize rather more nationwide consideration Tuesday.

The race is to fill the seat in Georgia's solidly purple 14th Congressional District — within the northwest a part of the state — left vacant when MAGA firebrand Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stepped down initially of January. Greene stop Congress with a yr left in her time period, after a really public falling out with President Donald Trump .

And the particular election is being held as Republicans cling to a razor-thin 218–214 majority within the Home. The GOP can not afford any surprises and permit the Democrats to drag an upset within the particular election, in a district Trump carried by a whopping 37 factors in his 2024 presidential victory.

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It is Main Day in Georgia's 14th Congressional District, within the race to fill the Home seat left vacant when then-Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican, resigned from Congress in early January. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Photos)

Twenty-two candidates initially filed to run for the vacant seat, however that quantity is all the way down to a nonetheless crowded area of 17 contenders, after a handful bowed out of the competition.

All candidates, no matter social gathering affiliation, are on the identical poll. And If no candidate tops 50% of the vote within the main, the highest two contenders will advance to a runoff April 7.

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Trump is backing Clay Fuller, one of many 12 Republican candidates within the race.

Trump teamed up with Fuller, the district lawyer for the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit, throughout a cease within the district final month. Talking forward of the president at an occasion in Rome, Georgia, Fuller described himself as a "MAGA warrior.

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Additionally operating is former state Sen. Colton Moore, a vocal Trump supporter who enjoys loads of help from the far proper.

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Among the many three Democrats operating for the seat is retired Military Brigadier Gen. Shaw Harris, the Democratic nominee who misplaced to Greene in 2024. With $4.3 million raised, Harris is the fundraising champion amongst all 17 candidates.

American flags are on show outdoors the Workplace of the 14th Congressional District of Georgia within the Rayburn Home Workplace Constructing, Thursday, March 5, 2026, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Robert Yoon/AP Photograph)

Whereas Fuller is taken into account the favourite because of Trump's endorsement, with simply three Democrats within the race, Harris has a shot of securing one of many two runoff spots no candidate tops the 50% threshold within the main.

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In Mississippi , Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith faces a GOP main problem — as she seeks a second full six-year time period — from doctor and novelist Sarah Adlakha.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, Mississippi's longest-serving present member of Congress and the one Democrat within the delegation, faces two main challengers as he seeks an 18th two-year time period within the Home.

Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter primarily based within the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the marketing campaign path from coast to coast."