Republican prosecutor Clay Fuller won a special election to replace Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia’s runoff elections on Tuesday, NBC News reported.
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The special election to fill Greene’s unexpired term in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District was a runoff after no candidate received a majority of votes in last month’s crowded all-party primary. However, in the first round, Republican candidates received about 60% of the votes, making Mr. Fuller, the district attorney, the clear favorite.
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Fuller also entered Tuesday’s runoff as an endorsement of President Donald Trump in a district where Trump has a 37 percentage point lead in the 2024 election.
Fuller touted himself as the best choice for people who “support President Trump 100%,” touting his support on the air and appearing with the president at events in the district. He also touted his background as a district attorney, lieutenant colonel in the Georgia Air National Guard, and as a White House fellow in the first Trump administration.
Greene, who was initially one of Trump’s closest allies in the House, resigned in January after falling out with the president over his handling of the release of files related to the investigation into the late convicted Jeffrey Epstein.
Harris, a retired Army brigadier general and rancher, has raised $6.4 million this election cycle, running ads bashing “tone-deaf politicians” in both parties who “don’t understand how difficult things are for hard-working Georgians.”
Democrats received slightly more votes than Fuller in the primary, which split the Republican vote among 17 candidates.
In the March primary, Harris and Fuller questioned the Trump administration’s response to the release of the Epstein files and eliminated Colton Moore, a former Republican state senator who was known as a revolutionary.
But Moore has also been a staunch defender of President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” agenda. Moore said he was the first Georgia congressman to allege fraud in the 2020 presidential election and publicly attacked Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who was investigating Trump for election fraud.
As the domestic political dynamics unfolded in the election, large super PACs became active in supporting Trump’s choices.
Two super PACs supporting Fuller, Club for Growth and Conservatives for American Excellence, have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting similar messages.
Also at the Cobb County Republican Candidates Forum, candidate Reagan Box accused Fuller of accepting money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
“AIPAC is not a foreign organization, and we’re happy to have their support,” Fuller said, adding, “There is no room for anti-Semitism in the Republican Party. That’s what we just heard from the Reagan Box.”
Campaign finance reports do not say whether Mr. Fuller received funds from groups affiliated with AIPAC.
Mr. Greene interrupted X and asked him who the candidates were in the AIPAC-backed race. “While it may not have official support, it may be indirectly funded,” she wrote. “They have. They always do. Remember, I never took any money from them.”
On March 10, the group congratulated Fuller on advancing to the runoff and accused Greene of having “worked throughout her tenure to undermine the relationship between the United States and Israel.”
