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民主党人肖恩·哈里斯指责对手克莱·富勒“向特朗普总统出卖灵魂”，距周二投票在即
作者：保罗·斯坦豪瑟 福克斯新闻
发布于2026年4月7日美国东部时间早上5:00
共和党国会候选人克莱·富勒表示，填补玛乔丽·泰勒·格林旧席位的周二决选“至关重要”
佐治亚州西北部国会选区的共和党国会候选人克莱·富勒表示，获得唐纳德·特朗普总统的背书是“我一生的荣幸”。
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佐治亚州罗马讯——共和党国会候选人克莱·富勒表示，周二举行的佐治亚州特别选举决选“至关重要”。
富勒将与民主党人肖恩·哈里斯角逐佐治亚州第14国会选区的席位，该选区位于佐治亚州西北部，历来是坚定的红色选区。玛乔丽·泰勒·格林众议员于今年1月初辞职，该席位就此空缺。格林在任期还剩一年时宣布辞去国会职务，此前她与唐纳德·特朗普总统关系彻底破裂。
此次特别选举与威斯康星州战场州的州最高法院选举同日举行，当前共和党在众议院仅以218票对214票的微弱优势占据多数席位。共和党经不起任何意外，更不能让民主党在这场特别选举中爆冷获胜，毕竟特朗普在2024年总统大选中以高达37个百分点的优势拿下了该选区。
“我们需要增援，”富勒在决选前一天接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时强调，他指出了共和党脆弱的多数席位优势。富勒是当地地区检察官，同时担任空军国民警卫队中校，自2009年起就在空军服役。“我认为佐治亚州第14选区的选民们明白这一点，他们期待着派出一名‘让美国优先’的激进斗士前往国会山，支持特朗普的执政议程。”
初选暂停，政治风暴来袭：本月高风险选举成为焦点
共和党国会候选人克莱·富勒（左）与唐纳德·特朗普总统在佐治亚州罗马的库萨钢铁公司参访期间交谈，2026年2月19日。（凯文·拉马克/路透社）
当被问及是否担心特朗普不在选票上时，特朗普的支持者会因选举可能 turnout 低迷而放弃投票，富勒表示选民“哪怕赴汤蹈火也要确保选出能为他们发声、为特朗普总统而战的代表，这就是为什么我们预计4月7日的投票会出现大量选民投票。”
特朗普在关键战场州开展竞选活动，接替玛乔丽·泰勒·格林的选战升温
哈里斯是养牛户，曾在军队服役40年，以陆军准将身份退役。他需要获得跨党派共和党人的支持才能爆冷获胜。
“我是民主党人，但我并不受政党束缚，”哈里斯在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时强调。哈里斯还指责道：“我的对手克莱却做不到这一点。他实际上已经向特朗普总统出卖了灵魂。”
哈里斯指出，特朗普对伊朗发动军事打击推高了汽油价格，他说当选民“前往投票站时，他们会顺路加油，这将是他们投票前最后考虑的一件事。他们会说，‘你知道吗，肖恩·哈里斯是唯一一个谈论降低成本的人，肖恩·哈里斯是唯一一个说‘我会站在佐治亚州西北部人民这边的人，仅此而已’。”
“我们将在军事上赢得这场战争。然而，如果我们不加以警惕，不向美国民众阐明情况，基于当前的汽油和柴油价格，我们可能会在政治上输掉这场战争。”
哈里斯表示，他“会在诸如……南部边境等问题上支持特朗普总统”。但他补充道：“但当涉及到……无休止的战争时，那就交给我吧。我会坚决反对。”
富勒表示，“佐治亚州第14选区的选民们在这场竞选中支持总统。他们明白伊朗政权长期以来对我们的国家安全构成威胁……他们明白特朗普总统正在让世界变得更安全，他们也理解加油站的油价可能会出现短期上涨，但他们预计冲突一结束，油价就会回落。”
在3月初举行的首轮选举中，17名候选人参选，其中包括12名共和党人，哈里斯获得37%的选票，富勒获得35%的选票。由于没有候选人得票率超过50%，哈里斯和富勒晋级周二的决选。
该国会选区涵盖亚特兰大郊区外围至佐治亚州西北部与阿拉巴马州和田纳西州接壤的边境地区。格林在任期还剩一年时辞职，该席位就此空缺，此前她与特朗普因推动公开杰弗里·爱泼斯坦相关文件一事公开决裂。
佐治亚州共和党众议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林于2025年9月3日在华盛顿特区美国国会大厦外，与10名被诋毁的金融家、性 trafficker 杰弗里·爱泼斯坦的指称受害者举行新闻发布会期间发言。（奇普·索莫德维莱/盖蒂图片社）
尽管格林在该选区的共和党人中仍然很受欢迎，但富勒表示，他在竞选活动中接触到的选民“关注的是未来的斗争，而非过去发生的任何事情”。
当被问及是否与格林有过交流时，富勒表示他“联系过格林众议员，与她进行了交谈，并听取了她对该选区的建议，我会对这些对话保密。”
哈里斯曾在2024年格林的连任选举中以近29个百分点的差距输给格林，这是他首次参选。他强调，“我现在不再是与玛乔丽·泰勒·格林竞争了”，并且他的名字“比该选区其他任何名字都更有分量”。
如果哈里斯落败但将富勒的胜选差距控制在15个百分点以内，全国民主党人将辩称，这场选举是特朗普重返白宫以来近15个月里民主党表现超出预期的最新例证。
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佐治亚州西北部的这场国会席位争夺战并非周二唯一的选举对决。威斯康星州战场州还将举行州最高法院选举。
尽管官方称其为无党派竞选，但近年来威斯康星州的州最高法院选举已变得极具党派色彩。
去年的选举中，法院的多数席位岌岌可危，外部资金大量涌入，州外敲门拉票者遍布威斯康星州。最大的支出者之一是特朗普的盟友埃隆·马斯克，他在选举前几天出席了一场集会，并戴上了绿湾包装工队球迷戴的奶酪头帽。
前特朗普顾问埃隆·马斯克于3月在威斯康星州格林贝出席一场市政厅会议。马斯克及其超级政治行动委员会花费超过200万美元支持保守派最高法院候选人布拉德·希梅尔的竞选。（斯科特·奥尔森/盖蒂图片社）
民主党人在去年的选举中以超出预期的优势获胜，目前在威斯康星州最高法院占据4比3的多数席位。
由于一名保守派大法官退休，今年的选举不会涉及多数席位的争夺，但如果前民主党州议员、上诉法院法官克里斯·泰勒获胜，自由派将把最高法院的多数席位扩大到5比2。
如果保守派上诉法院法官玛丽亚·拉扎尔获胜或仅以微弱差距落败，共和党可能会宣称取得了道义上的胜利。
保罗·斯坦豪瑟是驻摇摆州新罕布什尔州的政治记者，全程报道全国竞选活动。
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Democrat Shawn Harris argues rival Clay Fuller ‘sold his soul to President Trump’ ahead of Tuesday’s vote
By Paul Steinhauser Fox News
Published April 7, 2026 5:00am EDT
Republican congressional candidate Clay Fuller says Tuesday’s runoff election to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene’s old seat is ‘extremely crucial’
Clay Fuller, the Republican congressional candidate in the runoff election in northwest Georgia, says being endorsed by President Donald Trump is ‘the honor of my lifetime.’
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ROME, GA — Republican congressional candidate Clay Fuller says that Tuesday’s special election runoff in Georgia is “extremely crucial.”
Fuller is facing off against Democrat Shawn Harris in the race to fill the seat in Georgia’s solidly red 14th Congressional District — in the northwest part of the state — left vacant when MAGA firebrand Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stepped down at the beginning of January. Greene quit Congress with a year left in her term, after a bitter falling out with President Donald Trump.
The special election, held on the same day as a state Supreme Court contest in battleground Wisconsin, comes as Republicans cling to a razor-thin 218–214 majority in the House. The GOP cannot afford any surprises or allow the Democrats to pull an upset in the special election, in a district Trump carried by a whopping 37 points in his 2024 presidential victory.
“We need the reinforcements,” Fuller, a local district attorney and a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard who’s served in the Air Force since 2009, emphasized in a Fox News Digital interview on the eve of the runoff election, as he pointed to the GOP’s fragile majority. “I think the voters in Georgia 14 understand that, and they’re looking forward to sending a MAGA America first fighter up on Capitol Hill to support that agenda.”
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Republican congressional candidate Clay Fuller, left, speaks next to President Donald Trump, during a visit to the Coosa Steel Corporation in Rome, Georgia, Feb. 19, 2026.(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
Asked if he was concerned that MAGA supporters would sit out what may be a low turnout election since the president is not on the ballot, Fuller said voters “would crawl through glass to make sure they have a representative up there that fight for them and fight for President Trump, and that’s why we’re going to have the votes pouring out on April 7.”
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Harris, a cattle farmer who spent four decades in the military and retired as an Army brigadier general, needs the support of crossover Republicans in order to pull off an upset.
“I am a Democrat, but I’m not tied to the party,” Harris highlighted as he spoke with Fox News Digital. And Harris argued, “My opponent, Clay, cannot say that. He actually sold his soul to President Trump.”
Harris, pointing to surging gas prices fueled by Trump’s military attack on Iran, said when voters “go to the polls, they will have to stop at the pump, and that’ll be the last thing they think about before they go and vote. And they’re going to say, ‘You know what, Shawn Harris is the only one that’s talking about bringing down costs, Shawn Harris is the only one saying, ‘I’m going to stand up for the people here in Northwest Georgia, period.’”
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“We will win this war militarily. However, if we don’t watch it and be clear with the American people, based on these gas prices and diesel prices, we could actually lose this war politically.”
Harris said he “will support President Trump on things like the…southern border.” But he added “when it comes to things like…a forever war. Send me. I will push back.”
Fuller said that “the voters in Georgia-14 support the president in this endeavor. They understand that the Iranian regime was a long term threat to our national security…they understand that President Trump is making the world safer, and they understand that there may be short term pain at the gas pump, and they’ll expect those prices to drop as soon as this conflict is over.”
Harris grabbed 37% of the vote, with Fuller at 35% amid a field of 17 candidates, including 12 Republicans, in the first round of voting in early March. Since no candidate topped 50%, Harris and Fuller advanced to Tuesday’s runoff.
The congressional seat — which stretches from Atlanta’s outer suburbs to the state’s northwest borders with Alabama and Tennessee — was left vacant when Greene quit Congress with a year left in her term, after a very public falling out with Trump mostly over her push to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference with 10 of the alleged victims of disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein outside the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
While Greene remains popular among Republicans in the district, Fuller said the voters he’s talked with on the campaign trail “are focused on the fights of the future, not anything that had happened in the past.”
Asked if he’s talked with Greene, Fuller said he “reached out to Rep. Greene, had conversations with her and got advice on the district, and I’ll keep those conversations confidential.”
Harris, who as a first-time candidate lost to Greene by nearly 29 points in her 2024 re-election, emphasized that “I’m not running against Marjorie Taylor Greene anymore,” and that his name “carries more weight than any other name in this district.”
If Harris loses but holds Fuller’s margin to the mid-teens or less, national Democrats will argue the election is the latest in nearly 15 months since Trump returned to the White House in which they overperformed.
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The ballot box brawl in Northwest Georgia isn’t the only electoral showdown on Tuesday. There’s also a state Supreme Court election in battleground Wisconsin.
While officially a non-partisan contest, state Supreme Court elections in Wisconsin have become extremely partisan in recent years.
With the court’s majority on the line in last year’s contest, outside money poured in and out-of-state door knockers blanketed Wisconsin. One of the biggest spenders was Trump ally Elon Musk, who headlined a rally days before the election and donned a cheesehead hat worn by fans of the Green Bay Packers.
Then-Trump adviser Elon Musk appears at a town hall meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in March. Musk and his super PACs spent more than $2 million to support conservative Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel’s campaign.(Scott Olson/Getty)
Democrats won that election by a larger-than-expected margin and currently hold a 4-3 majority on Wisconsin’s highest court.
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With a conservative justice retiring, the majority isn’t at stake in this year’s election, although if state Appeals Court Judge Chris Taylor, a former democratic state representative, wins, liberals would expand their majority on the high court to 5-2.
If Appeals Court Judge Maria Lazar, a conservative, wins or keeps the margins close, the GOP may claim a moral victory.
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.
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