{"id":469201,"date":"2026-03-11T07:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469201\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:28:12","slug":"clay-fuller-and-shawn-harris-head-to-runoff-in-georgia-race-to-replace-marjorie-taylor-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/469201\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay Fuller and Shawn Harris head to runoff in Georgia race to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Voters went to the polls on Tuesday mindful of the feud. They had the dizzying task of choosing from 17 candidates, both Democrat and Republican.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some Republicans used Trump&#8217;s endorsement to guide their own vote, wanting a more reliable fighter for the president they support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marsha Miles &#8220;would have voted for Fuller anyway&#8221;, she told the BBC outside a polling place in Rome, but Trump&#8217;s endorsement signalled he was the right choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But she also chose Fuller because &#8220;of his morals, what he stands for, and his military service&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fuller ran on a platformed that echoed Trump&#8217;s priorities of mass deportation, increased domestic manufacturing, and a tough-on-crime stance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s the perfect choice for representation in this area,&#8221; said Teresa Lumsden, who attended his election night party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Democrats in the district hoped to flip the seat after six years of Greene&#8217;s representation by electing Harris, a retired brigadier general and local farmer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sheila Hutchings, a Democrat, voted for Harris because she wanted &#8220;a more positive&#8221; personality who would &#8220;speak kindly&#8221; to all constituents regardless of party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters went to the polls on Tuesday mindful of the feud. They had the dizzying task of choosing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-469201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}