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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The special election to fill the rest of Greene\u2019s term in the 14th Congressional District went to a runoff after no candidate in the crowded all-party primary won a majority of the vote last month. Fuller, who is a district attorney, was the firm favorite, entering the Tuesday runoff with President Donald Trump\u2019s endorsement in a district Trump carried by 37 percentage points in the 2024 presidential race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With more than 85%of the expected vote counted, Fuller led Harris by 15 points, 57.5%-42.5%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fuller pitched himself as the best choice for those who \u201c100% support President Trump,\u201d touting the endorsement on the airwaves and appearing with Trump 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greene, initially one of Trump\u2019s closest allies in the House, resigned in January after she broke with him over his handling of the release of files related to the investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Harris, a retired Army brigadier general and cattle rancher, raised $6.4 million this election cycle and launched ads knocking \u201cout-of-touch politicians\u201d from both parties who \u201cdon\u2019t understand how difficult things are for hardworking Georgians.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Harris won slightly more votes than Fuller in the primary election, in which the total Republican vote was divided among 17 candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the March primary, Harris and Fuller eliminated Republican former state Sen. Colton Moore, who questioned the Trump administration\u2019s handling of the release of the Epstein files and has made a name for himself as a disrupter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Moore was also a staunch defender of Trump\u2019s “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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As national political dynamics played out in the election, large super PACs jumped in to throw their weight behind Trump\u2019s pick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two super PACs backing Fuller, Club for Growth and Conservatives for American Excellence, have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to run similar messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAIPAC is not a foreign organization. I\u2019m happy to have their support,\u201d Fuller said, adding: \u201cThere is no room for antisemitism in the Republican Party, and that\u2019s what you just heard from Reagan Box.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Campaign finance reports didn\u2019t make it clear whether Fuller had received money from groups affiliated with AIPAC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greene jumped in on X, asking who the AIPAC-backed candidate in the race was. \u201cThere may not be an official endorsement but funded indirectly,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThey have one, they always do. Remember I never took money from them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The organization congratulated Fuller on March 10 on advancing to the runoff and slammed Greene, saying she had \u201cworked throughout her tenure to weaken the U.S.-Israel relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n