Republican Clay Fuller, a former district attorney, defeated Democrat Shawn Harris, a retired Army brigadier general, in a special election to replace former GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. While the result, in a district that voted for President Donald Trump by 37 percentage points in 2024, is a considerable overperformance for Democrats, it gives the narrow Republican majority in the U.S. House a bit more breathing room.

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Georgia 14th District First Round

Harris and Fuller advanced to a runoff after neither won a majority in the first round. While Harris took nearly all the Democratic vote and led in the first round, a majority of voters supported a Republican candidate.

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