2026年4月8日 美国东部时间上午11:24 / 福克斯新闻
富勒称特朗普“是我们获胜的关键因素”，填补了玛乔丽·泰勒·格林今年1月空出的席位
作者：保罗·施坦豪泽 福克斯新闻
共和党国会候选人克莱·富勒表示，特朗普总统“是我们赢得特别选举的关键”
赢得佐治亚州西北部周二国会特别选举的共和党候选人克莱·富勒告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，特朗普总统“是我们获胜的关键因素”。
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佐治亚州林戈尔德——共和党国会候选人克莱·富勒在胜选演讲中感谢了唐纳德·特朗普总统，他成功保住了这个坚定的共和党选区，巩固了共和党在众议院微乎其微的多数席位优势。
“他是决定胜负的关键人物，”得到特朗普背书的富勒在周二晚间胜选后接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时强调，“他是我们获胜的关键因素。”
富勒击败民主党候选人肖恩·哈里斯，赢得特别选举，填补佐治亚州第14国会选区空出的美国众议院席位，该选区位于这个关键东南部战场州的西北部。去年1月初，MAGA旗帜派共和党众议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林辞职后，该席位空缺。格林在任期还剩一年时便退出国会，此前她与特朗普爆发激烈决裂。
特朗普背书的共和党人巩固共和党脆弱的众议院多数席位
2026年4月7日，佐治亚州林戈尔德，共和党当选众议员克莱·富勒在国会特别选举 run-off 胜选后接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访。（保罗·施坦豪泽/福克斯新闻）
此次特别选举之际，共和党在众议院仅以218票对214票的微弱优势维持多数席位。共和党压力巨大，必须确保民主党无法在这个特朗普2024年总统选举中以高达37个百分点优势拿下的选区爆冷获胜。
富勒曾担任地方地区检察官、空军国民警卫队中校，自2009年起在空军服役，他称自己是众议院议长迈克·约翰逊的“增援力量”，并表示他的胜选“极其关键”。
初选暂停，政治风暴：本月高风险选举成为焦点
但即便败选，民主党也有理由庆祝。
根据最新选举结果，曾是牧场主、拥有四十年军旅生涯并以陆军准将身份退役的哈里斯，以约12个百分点的差距输给了富勒。这相比他2024年连任选举中输给格林的29个百分点差距，有了显著进步。
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民主党将佐治亚州第14国会选区的选举结果标榜为自特朗普重返白宫以来近15个月里，民主党在投票箱表现持续超预期的最新例证，并表示他们势头正盛，有望在今年秋季的中期选举中从共和党手中夺回国会多数席位。
“在佐治亚州最深红的国会选区——尽管共和党斥资超150万美元捍卫这个特朗普以37个百分点优势拿下的席位——民主党候选人肖恩·哈里斯在玛乔丽·泰勒·格林的老家取得了令人瞠目结舌的20多个百分点的超预期表现，”佐治亚州民主党主席查理·贝利在一份声明中说道。
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民主党全国委员会（DNC）主席肯·马丁强调，“肖恩·哈里斯在佐治亚州最红的选区开展了一场无畏的竞选，实现了两位数的超预期表现。”
富勒驳斥了民主党的说法。
2026年4月7日，佐治亚州林戈尔德，共和党国会候选人克莱·富勒在佐治亚州第14选区特别选举 run-off 胜选后发表讲话。（保罗·施坦豪泽/福克斯新闻）
“他们输了。他们得叫我国会议员，他们砸了数百万美元，简直是把几百万美元往火里烧，还是被彻底击败了，”他在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示。
佐治亚州共和党主席乔希·麦库恩表示，“民主党把所有能拿出来的都投入到这场竞选……他们把这场比赛当成超级碗，还是输了。”
佐治亚州的 run-off 并非周二晚间唯一的重大选举。
自由派扩大威斯康星州最高法院多数席位，巩固关键战场州控制权
自由派在威斯康星州最高法院选举中扩大了多数席位席位，巩固了在这个关键战场州的控制权。这场投票对决并未吸引太多全国关注，但结果事关重大。
威斯康星州上诉法院法官克里斯·泰勒——前民主党州众议员——击败了保守派对手、上诉法院法官玛丽亚·拉扎尔。泰勒将接替即将退休的保守派大法官，此次胜选后，自由派将把州最高法院的多数席位扩大到5比2。
尽管官方称这是无党派选举，但近年来威斯康星州的最高法院选举已变得高度党派化。
泰勒最终以约20个百分点的优势击败拉扎尔，胜选幅度超出预期。全国民主党人再次迅速借此展示民主党表现超预期。
2026年4月2日，威斯康星州密尔沃基，威斯康星州最高法院候选人、上诉法院法官玛丽亚·拉扎尔（左）与克里斯·泰勒参加由WISN 12新闻主持的威斯康星州最高法院辩论。（乔瓦尼·埃尔南德斯/密尔沃基哨兵报 via AP, Pool）
“威斯康星州选民现身投票，向共和党传递了又一个强烈信号，确保自由派多数席位延续至2030年！”民主党全国委员会的马丁在社交媒体帖子中说道。
很难否认，自特朗普第二个任期开始以来，民主党在选举对决中势头正猛。
去年，爱荷华州两场共和党控制的州参议院席位易主，让共和党失去了参议院超级多数地位。民主党还在去年11月倾向民主党的弗吉尼亚州和新泽西州州长选举中取得了超出预期的胜果，并在去年12月田纳西州一个倾向共和党的选区的国会特别选举中表现超预期。
今年早些时候，众多共和党人将2月初得克萨斯州一个深红选区州参议院特别选举中本党两位数的惨败称为本党的“警钟”。
两周前的特别选举中，佛罗里达州的民主党人还拿下了包括特朗普棕榈滩老家海湖庄园所在的州参议院席位和州众议院选区。
民主党在投票箱表现持续亮眼的部分原因在于，他们紧紧围绕持续高通胀下的民生负担问题展开竞选。
与此同时，共和党正面临严峻的政治逆风：作为华盛顿执政党，传统上中期选举会丢失席位；经济担忧引发的艰难政治氛围、不受欢迎的伊朗战争，以及特朗普低迷的支持率。
“民主党人的热情无处不在。我们正在缩小差距，共和党人绝对是慌了，”马丁声称。
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但共和党人表示，民主党过度夸大了他们的投票箱表现，尤其是在通常投票率较低的特别选举中取得的成功。
“低投票率的州众议院特别选举只是当地特殊情况、候选人动态和投票率数学的缩影——而非某种全局性的裁决，”共和党全国委员会高级顾问丹妮尔·阿尔瓦雷斯在佛罗里达州棕榈滩上月特别选举后说道。
资深共和党战略家、沟通专家杰西·亨特告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，“从历史上看，特别选举并不是衡量常规中期选举或总统选举结果的可靠指标。特别选举有其独特的动态，当广大选民带着11月投票的惯性参与投票时，这些因素的影响就没那么大了。”
保罗·施坦豪泽是驻摇摆州新罕布什尔州的政治记者，他全程报道全国竞选活动。
Republicans win but Democrats also claim victory with ballot box surge in Trump territory
2026-04-08 11:24am EDT / Fox News
Fuller said Trump ‘was the key factor in us winning’ the seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor Greene in January
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Republican congressional candidate Clay Fuller says President Trump ‘was the difference maker’ in his special election victory
GOP candidate Clay Fuller, who won Tuesday’s special congressional election in northwest Georgia, tells Fox News Digital President Trump was ‘the key factor in us winning.’
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RINGGOLD, GA— Republican congressional candidate Clay Fuller credited President Donald Trump in his victory speech after keeping a solidly red district in GOP hands and boosting Republicans’ razor-thin House majority.
“He was the difference maker,” Fuller, who was backed by Trump, emphasized in a Fox News Digital interview following his victory Tuesday night. “He was the key factor in us winning.”
Fuller defeated Democrat Shawn Harris in a special election to fill the empty U.S. House seat in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, in the northwest corner of the crucial southeastern battleground state. The seat was 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 Trump.
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Republican Rep.-elect Clay Fuller of Georgia is interviewed by Fox News Digital after his special congressional election runoff victory, on April 7, 2026, in Ringgold, Georgia.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
The special election came as Republicans clung to a fragile 218–214 majority in the House. The GOP was under the gun to make sure the Democrats didn’t pull off an upset in a district that Trump carried by a whopping 37 points in his 2024 presidential victory.
Fuller, who was a local district attorney and a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard, who’s served in the Air Force since 2009, called himself a “reinforcement” for House Speaker Mike Johnson and said his victory was “extremely crucial.”
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But even in defeat, Democrats see cause for celebration.
Harris, a cattle farmer who spent four decades in the military and retired as an Army brigadier general, lost to Fuller by roughly 12 points, according to the latest election results. That’s a significant improvement from the 29-point defeat he suffered to Greene in her 2024 re-election.
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Democrats touted the results in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District as their party’s latest ballot box overperformance in the nearly 15 months since Trump returned to the White House and say they have the wind at their backs as they aim to win back congressional majorities from the Republicans in this autumn’s midterm elections.
“In the deepest-red congressional district in Georgia — and despite more than $1.5 million in spending by Republicans to defend this Trump +37 seat — Democrat Shawn Harris notched a jaw-dropping more than 20-point overperformance in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s backyard,” said Charlie Bailey, chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia, in a statement.
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And Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin highlighted that “Shawn Harris ran a fearless campaign in the reddest district in all of Georgia, delivering a double-digit overperformance.”
Fuller pushed back on the Democrats’ messaging.
Republican congressional candidate Clay Fuller speaks after his victory in the special election runoff in Georgia’s 14th District, on April 7, 2026, in Ringgold, Georgia.(Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
“They lost. They’ve got to call me congressman, and they poured in millions of dollars, just lit millions of dollars on fire, and still got crushed,” he argued, in his Fox News Digital interview.
And Georgia Republican Party Chair Josh McKoon said that “Democrats threw everything they had at this race… They made this the Super Bowl and they lost.”
The runoff in Georgia wasn’t the only major election on Tuesday night.
Liberals expanded their majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, strengthening control in a key battleground state, in a ballot box showdown that drew limited national attention but had plenty riding on the results.
Wisconsin Appeals Court Judge Chris Taylor, a former Democratic state representative, defeated Appeals Court Judge Maria Lazar, a conservative. Taylor will succeed a retiring conservative justice and with the victory, liberals will expand their majority on the state Supreme Court to 5-2.
While officially a non-partisan contest, state Supreme Court elections in Wisconsin have become extremely partisan in recent election cycles.
Taylor ended up topping Lazar by roughly 20 points, a larger victory than expected. And national Democrats once again were quick to showcase the overperformance.
Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates, Court of Appeals Judges Maria Lazar, left, and Chris Taylor participate in the Wisconsin Supreme Court debate hosted by WISN 12 News on Thursday, April 2, 2026, at WISN-TV in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.(Jovanny Hernandez/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP, Pool)
“Wisconsin voters showed up and sent another big message to Republicans, securing a liberal majority until 2030!” the DNC’s Martin said in a social media post.
It’s hard to deny that Democrats are on a roll in electoral showdowns since the start of Trump’s second term.
The flipping of two GOP-controlled state Senate seats in Iowa last year denied Republicans their super majority in the chamber. Democrats also scored larger than expected victories in last November’s gubernatorial elections in blue-leaning Virginia and New Jersey, and over performed in last December’s special congressional election in a red-leaning district in Tennessee.
Earlier this year, plenty of Republicans were calling their party’s double-digit shellacking in a state Senate election in a ruby red district in Texas in an early February special election a “wake-up call” for the party.
And in special elections two weeks ago, Democrats in Florida flipped a state Senate seat and a state House district that includes Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s home turf in Palm Beach.
Partially fueling the Democrats’ ballot box performances is their laser focus on affordability amid persistent inflation.
Meanwhile, Republicans are battling stiff political headwinds as the party in power in the nation’s capital traditionally loses seats in the midterms, and a rough political climate fueled by economic concerns, an unpopular war with Iran, and Trump’s underwater approval ratings.
“Enthusiasm for Democrats is growing everywhere. We’re closing the gap and Republicans are absolutely terrified,” Martin claimed.
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But Republicans say that Democrats are overemphasizing their ballot box performances, especially their special election successes in what are often low-turnout contests.
“A low-turnout state House special election is a snapshot of local quirks, candidate dynamics, and turnout math — not some grand verdict,” RNC senior adviser Danielle Alvarez said after last month’s special election in Palm Beach, Florida.
And veteran Republican strategist and communicator Jesse Hunt told Fox News Digital that “historically, special elections have been a poor barometer for what will occur during regularly scheduled midterm or presidential elections. Specials have unique dynamics that don’t play as much of a factor when the broader electorate feels the muscle memory of showing up to vote in November.”
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.