The special election in Georgia’s Fourteenth District to replace Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is expected to go to a runoff on April 7th. There are no Party primaries for most special elections in the state, so both Democrats and Republicans will be on the same ballot—a so-called jungle primary—making it unlikely for a candidate to receive a majority of the votes. Greene, a Republican, resigned from her seat on January 5th, after President Donald Trump attacked her for supporting efforts to compel the Department of Justice to release its investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein. She has declined to endorse a candidate in the race.
On the Republican side, Trump has endorsed Clay Fuller, the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit district attorney and a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, dubbing him an “America First Patriot.” Fuller’s main Republican challenger is Colton Moore, a former member of the Georgia General Assembly who was banned from the state-Senate floor after calling the late speaker of the Georgia House David Ralston “one of the most corrupt Georgia leaders we’ll ever see in our lifetimes,” during a memorial for Ralston at the state House. Despite the ban, Moore later attempted to attend Governor Brian Kemp’s State of the State address and was subsequently arrested. He has been endorsed by the former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz and Kyle Rittenhouse, the man who, as a seventeen year old, shot three people, killing two, at a racial-justice protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020.
Shawn Harris, who previously ran for this seat in the 2024 election, is the most prominent Democrat on the ballot. Harris is a cattleman and a retired brigadier general who served in Afghanistan. He has been endorsed by the Floyd County Democratic Party, and by national figures such as Pete Buttigieg.
