(The Center Square) – It didn’t take long Tuesday night for the runoff in Georgia’s 14th U.S. House District election to be decided, as Republican Clay Fuller and Democrat Shawn Harris had early leads.
Harris and Fuller will compete in an April 7 runoff to determine who will serve until the end of the year. Georgia law requires a runoff if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote.
Harris led the field of 17 candidates as results trickled in after the polls closed at 7 p.m. He thanked his supporters in a social media post, saying the race isn’t over.
“Momentum is real. The coalition is growing. Let’s finish what we started,” Harris said.
Harris ran against former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from Congress in January 2024, and won 35% of the vote.
Fuller, a former district attorney with the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit, led the 12 Republicans in the race and remained well ahead of his closest competitor, former state senator Colton Moore. President Donald Trump endorsed Fuller and appeared with him at a rally in Rome, Ga.
Both have qualified to run for full, two-year terms that will begin in January 2027.
Eleven of the Republican candidates in Tuesday night’s contest qualified for the May 19 primary: Fuller, Moore, James Edward Tully Jr., Brian Stover, Nicky Lama, Eric Brad Cunningham, Reagan Christane Box, Star Black, Thomas Gray and Beau Brown.
Harris is the only Democrat who qualified for the primary.