JUST IN: Trump-Backed Candidate Cruises In Special Election For MTG’s Former District

Trump-backed Republican candidate Clayton Fuller soundly defeated a crowded GOP field to advance to a runoff against Democrat challenger Shawn Harris in  Georgia’s 14th Congressional District on Tuesday evening. The election is being held to fill the seat formerly held by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from Congress earlier this year after a falling out with President Trump.

With no candidate achieving a majority of the votes, the two will compete in a runoff election scheduled for April 7. Under Georgia election law, a runoff is required if neither of the top two finishers in the initial primary contest receives more than 50 percent of the vote.

Georgia’s 14th Congressional District encompasses swaths of the state’s northwest, including a mix of rural and suburban areas such as Rome, Dalton, and parts of the Chattanooga metropolitan area extending toward Atlanta’s outer suburbs. The district became vacant on January 5, when Greene formally resigned.