Posted on 04/07/2026 5:11:06 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/georgia-14th-district-special-election-runoff-decide-who-fills-marjorie-taylor-greenes-seat/2AK75YSJJJDZFPDET65Y3CVNVU/
This GA-14 Special Election is required to replace Majorie-Taylor Greene who quit (er, retired) in January 2026 after disagreements with Pres Trump.
Fuller is expected to win - the region was easily won by MTG in 2022 and 2024.
Previously, for this same general House District area, Larry McDonald was the northwest GA Representative killed by Soviet rocket fire in KAL 007 in 1983. Newt Gingrich began his House Career in this District, then Bob Barr begin his campaigns serving the area. Barry Loudermilk serves the neighboring House district - He was shot in Washington while practicing for a House baseball game.
The District boundaries have changed several times: The current district extends generally to the north and west of Marietta GA towards Rome and the AL-GA border.
Decision Desk HQ just called it to Fuller.
Nice to see Republicans show up to vote.
“Newt Gingrich began his House Career in this District,”
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Newt has commercials here endorsing the biggest RINO for governor.
GOP billionaire trying to woo Trump’s support in key Georgia race bankrolled his 2024 presidential rivals
Rick Jackson donated to Liz Cheney’s leadership PAC weeks after she joined Dems in voting to impeach Trump
By Alec Schemmel Fox News
Published March 12, 2026 6:30am EDT
Local (Atlanta TV) has only 54-46% for Clay Fuller.
Clay Fuller
Rep
30,795 votes, 54%
Shawn Harris
Dem
26,283 votes, 46%
“Newt Gingrich began his House Career in this District,”
Not really germane to what’s happening tonight, but this is 100% incorrect. Not even close to the truth.
BTW the Democrats will be claiming another “morrull victurry” because their DEI Officer got a higher % of the vote than most Rats do here. The GOP underachieved significantly again but this district was WAY too Republican to actually lose and Democrats knew they had no real chance.
By November this district will be totally safe again and Fuller will win by 30 points or so.
They can spend the rest of tonight crowing about their (probable) landslide win in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, but they never had any chance in GA-14.
Yes, but it’s over. The final margin will be higher for Fuller.
Neighboring Districts in NW GA whose borders regularly shift with population increases since 1983. And GA re-districting shenanigans down in Atlanta to screw up conservatives.
When we first got to Kennesaw, Gingrich was our Rep.
When Gingrich was first elected to Congress in the 1970s his district did not even contain ONE county which is currently in GA-14; the article is completely wrong about their Gingrich factoid.
Newt did not represent any part of Cobb County until 1992, when Democrat redistricters rotated his district from being basically west of Atlanta to entirely new territory to the north. They almost got him, too.
Not in the general election, but in the 1992 primary where Democrat $$$ (and Democrat votes in the *open* primary) almost sunk Newt in favor of a more squishy Republican. After that, he was safe for as long as he continued to run.
Excellent news!
GOP up 17K at the moment. Only two counties still counting.
Terrible disappointment in Newt.
Buh bye, Margie. It was ... hmmm, can’t think of an appropriate word.
Clay Fuller
Rep
72,304 votes. 56%
Shawn Harris
Dem
57,030 votes. 44%
I have to say I’m a bit disappointed in MTG. Many people warned us about her. Yes she was a crazy person, but she was our crazy person. I don’t understand quite what went wrong with her. Did she really skid off the road that bad or did she sell out for a pallet of money?
She is an enigma wrapped in a disappointment - to paraphrase Churchill’s old description of Soviet Union. Definitely a rising “star” when Trump paired her with Musk and the DOGE initiatives- she could have leveraged that visibility easily to influence things. To become more effective.
Then either she exploded. Or some one close to her (influencing her views and her decisions) exploded. It’s happened to other apparent conservatives getting under the contamination in Washington.
Notice it was Cobb County lagging behind. Not a shock at all.
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