{"id":516431,"date":"2026-03-11T05:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/516431\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T05:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T05:34:08","slug":"election-to-replace-marjorie-taylor-greene-leads-to-run-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/516431\/","title":{"rendered":"Election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene leads to run-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Republican candidate backed by US President Donald Trump will advance to a run-off against a Democrat in the Georgia race to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in the US House of Representatives, after a special election on Tuesday seen as a test of Trump\u2019s sway over his party.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump\u2019s preferred candidate, former district attorney for four northwest Georgia counties Clay Fuller, will face Shawn Harris, a moderate Democrat who has sought to court disillusioned Trump voters, in \u200cthe April 7 run-off.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Harris won 37.3 per cent of the vote while Fuller topped a crowded Republican field of a dozen candidates with 34.9 per cent, according to Georgia\u2019s secretary of state. With no candidate securing a majority, the top two will face off next month, with Fuller favoured in the staunchly conservative district.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The race has drawn outsized national attention because it offers an early measure of Trump\u2019s grip on his base in a district that has been a stronghold of his Make America Great Again movement and was thrust back into the spotlight by last year\u2019s public split between Trump and Greene.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Democratic candidate Shawn Harris. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/91dda003-e81a-4865-b326-86b7a0908c46_5a129d5c.jpg\" title=\"Democratic candidate Shawn Harris. Photo: AFP\"\/>Democratic candidate Shawn Harris. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Fuller easily outpaced other Republicans, signalling Trump\u2019s enduring sway over his Maga base. He beat the next closest one, conservative former state senator Colton Moore, who \u2060describes himself as Trump\u2019s top defender, by more than 20 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Republican candidate backed by US President Donald Trump will advance to a run-off against a Democrat in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,5786,220992,233587,7043,12,681,233588,39696,7231,801,803,13409,3,25244,220993,2219,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-516431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-atlanta","tag-clay-fuller","tag-colton-moore","tag-democrat","tag-donald-trump","tag-georgia","tag-georgias-secretary-of-state","tag-harris","tag-house","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-marjorie-taylor-greene","tag-news","tag-republican","tag-shawn-harris","tag-tennessee","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}