Trump-backed Republican wins runoff to succeed Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia, NBC projects

Clay Fuller speaks next to U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured), during a visit to the Coosa Steel Corporation in Rome, Georgia, U.S., February 19, 2026. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

April 7 (Reuters) - Republican Clay Fuller, a former prosecutor endorsed by President Donald Trump, on Tuesday won a runoff election in Georgia to replace conservative firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene in the U.S. House of Representatives, NBC News projected.

Fuller, a former district attorney in northwest Georgia, defeated Shawn Harris, a moderate Democrat who had been trying to win over disaffected Trump voters, in the two-way race to represent the state's most conservative district.  

Tuesday's runoff was triggered after no candidates secured an outright majority in a March 10 special election, held after Greene resigned from Congress in January amid a public rupture with Trump.

(reporting by Nathan Layne, Editing by Michael Learmonth and Deepa Babington)