{"id":19856,"date":"2026-03-11T00:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-endorsed-republican-advances-to-runoff-in-georgia-special-election-for-mtgs-seat\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T00:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T00:16:52","slug":"trump-endorsed-republican-advances-to-runoff-in-georgia-special-election-for-mtgs-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-endorsed-republican-advances-to-runoff-in-georgia-special-election-for-mtgs-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump-endorsed Republican advances to runoff in Georgia special election for MTG\u2019s seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Republican Clayton Fuller and Democrat Shawn Harris are advancing to a runoff in the special election to serve out the remainder of former Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene\u2019s term in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Fuller, a local prosecutor and Air National Guard member, is heavily favored in the April 7 runoff in the deep-red northwest Georgia district. He overcame a crowded field of Republican competitors with the help of an <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116014966605970564\" target=\"_blank\"><u>endorsement from President Donald Trump<\/u><\/a> in early February.<\/p>\n<p>But his inability to win 50 percent of the vote means the seat will remain open for another month, hampering House Republicans\u2019 already-slim majority.<\/p>\n<p>The election was widely expected to head into a runoff given the high volume of interest in the seat. The crowded special election drew interest from more than 20 candidates after Greene\u2019s abrupt departure from Congress amid her high-profile falling-out with Trump. Greene <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/11\/24\/marjorie-taylor-greene-election-replacement-00667787\" target=\"_blank\"><u>declined to throw her support<\/u><\/a> behind any candidates in the race, but her legacy and public spat with the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/02\/07\/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-primary-00770325\" target=\"_blank\"><u>loomed large over the race to replace her<\/u><\/a> in the House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Clayton Fuller and Democrat Shawn Harris are advancing to a runoff in the special election to serve out the remainder of former Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene\u2019s term in Congress. Fuller, a local prosecutor and Air National Guard member, is heavily favored in the April 7 runoff in the deep-red northwest Georgia district. He overcame [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}