Democrat Shawn Harris and Clayton Fuller, a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump, were the top two finishers in Tuesday’s nonpartisan special election to fill GOP former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat. The pair will face each other in an April 7 runoff.
Harris, a former Army brigadier general and cattle farmer, captured the largest share of votes with 37 percent as of Wednesday morning. Fuller, a former district attorney, took the second slot with nearly 35 percent of the vote. No candidate secured the 50 percent vote threshold required to avoid a runoff.
The seat has been vacant since Greene resigned on Jan. 5, following her dramatic break with Trump over his handling of the release of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as well as over the direction of his “America First” agenda and what she called his undue focus on foreign policy matters.
