2026年4月7日 美国东部时间晚上8:26 / 福克斯新闻
该席位因玛乔丽·泰勒·格林在与特朗普公开决裂后辞去国会职务而空缺
作者：保罗·斯坦豪瑟 福克斯新闻
赢得佐治亚州西北部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”。
佐治亚州林戈尔德——共和党国会候选人克莱·富勒刚刚为众议院议长迈克·约翰逊赢得了一点喘息空间，因为共和党在国会仅以微弱优势把持多数席位。
据美联社报道，获得唐纳德·特朗普总统背书的富勒周二在特别选举中击败民主党人肖恩·哈里斯，填补佐治亚州第14国会选区这个坚定支持共和党的空缺席位。该选区此前是共和党票仓。
“他是决定胜负的关键人物，”富勒在胜选后告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，并将功劳归于特朗普。“他是我们获胜的关键因素……我们的选举结果证明，特朗普总统对佐治亚州第14选区意义重大。”
该席位因极右翼共和党众议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林于1月初辞职而空缺。格林在任期还剩一年时辞去国会职务，此前她与特朗普发生激烈决裂。
此次特别选举之际，共和党在众议院仅以218比214的微弱多数席位把持控制权。共和党面临巨大压力，必须确保民主党不会在这场特别选举中爆冷获胜，而这个佐治亚州西北部的选区在特朗普2024年总统大选胜选中以高达37个百分点的优势胜出。
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2026年2月19日，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市参观库萨钢铁公司期间发言。（凯文·拉马克/路透社）
“这极其关键，我们需要增援力量，”富勒在 runoff 选举前夕告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
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年起在空军服役。他补充道：“我认为佐治亚州第14选区的选民理解这一点，他们期待选出一名‘让美国优先’的激进派斗士前往国会山，支持该议程。”
特朗普转战关键摇摆州竞选活动，替换玛乔丽·泰勒·格林的竞选升温
当被问及是否担心特朗普的支持者会因总统不在选票上而放弃参与这场预计投票率较低的选举时，富勒表示，特朗普的选民“会不惜一切代价确保他们选出能为自己、为特朗普总统而战的代表”。
哈里斯是一名养牛场主，曾在军队服役40年，以陆军准将军衔退役。他需要获得跨党派共和党人的支持才能爆冷获胜。
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“我是民主党人，但我并不依附于政党，”哈里斯周一在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时强调。哈里斯还指责道：“我的对手克莱做不到这一点。他实际上为了特朗普总统而出卖了自己的灵魂。”
在3月初的首轮投票中，17名候选人参选，其中包括12名共和党人，哈里斯以微弱优势领先富勒。由于没有候选人得票率超过50%，哈里斯和富勒进入周二的决选。
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这个国会选区从亚特兰大郊区延伸至该州西北部与阿拉巴马州和田纳西州的边界，因格林在任期还剩一年时辞职而空缺，此次辞职主要源于她推动公开杰弗里·爱泼斯坦相关文件与特朗普公开决裂。
2025年9月3日，华盛顿特区，佐治亚州共和党众议员玛乔丽·泰勒·格林与10名被指控的性交易丑闻金融家杰弗里·爱泼斯坦受害者在国会大厦外举行新闻发布会。（奇普·萨莫德维尔/盖蒂图片社）
尽管格林在该选区的共和党选民中仍然很受欢迎，但富勒表示，他在竞选途中接触到的选民“关注的是未来的斗争，而非过去发生的事情”。
当被问及是否与格林有过沟通时，富勒表示他“联系了格林众议员，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”。
哈里斯在2024年的连任选举中以近29个百分点的差距输给格林，此次是他首次参选。他强调自己“不再是与玛乔丽·泰勒·格林对决”，并且他的名字“比该选区其他任何名字都更有分量”。
在绝大多数选票已清点的情况下，哈里斯以约12个百分点的差距落后于富勒，这比他2024年对阵格林时的表现有了显著提升。
民主党人吹捧他们在此次特别选举决选中的出色表现。
佐治亚州民主党主席查理·贝利在一份声明中表示：“今晚，在佐治亚州最坚定的共和党国会选区——尽管共和党花费了超过150万美元来捍卫这个特朗普以37个百分点优势胜出的席位——民主党人肖恩·哈里斯在玛乔丽·泰勒·格林的大本营取得了令人惊讶的20多个百分点的超额表现。”
民主党全国委员会主席肯·马丁强调，肖恩·哈里斯在全佐治亚州最红的选区开展了一场无畏的竞选活动，实现了两位数的超额表现。
马丁认为：“民主党人的热情无处不在。我们正在缩小差距，共和党人绝对感到恐惧。”
自特朗普重返白宫以来的近15个月里，民主党人多次展示他们在一系列特别选举中的胜利和超额表现。
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但富勒反驳了民主党的说法。
“他们输了。他们必须称呼我为国会议员，他们投入了数百万美元，简直是把数百万美元付之一炬，最终还是被打得落花流水，”他在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时说道。
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富勒没有太多时间享受胜利。
他将参加下个月的佐治亚州初选，力争成为该选区11月选举的共和党候选人，届时他将寻求获得完整的两年国会任期。
哈里斯表示，他也将在中期选举中再次参选。
哈里斯在一份声明中强调：“这不是我们想要的结果，但信息很明确——这里的民众已经准备好接受将他们放在首位的领导力。战斗仍在继续。十一月再战！”
保罗·斯坦豪瑟是驻摇摆州新罕布什尔州的政治记者，他全程报道全国范围内的竞选活动。
Trump-backed Republican pads GOP’s fragile House majority by winning showdown for MTG’s former seat
April 7, 2026 8:26pm EDT / Fox News
The seat was vacated when Marjorie Taylor Greene quit Congress after a public falling out with Trump
By Paul Steinhauser Fox News
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.’
RINGGOLD, GA — Republican congressional candidate Clay Fuller just gave House Speaker Mike Johnson a little bit of breathing room as the GOP clings to a razor-thin majority in Congress.
Fuller, who was backed by President Donald Trump, on Tuesday defeated Democrat Shawn Harris in a special election to fill the empty U.S. House seat in Georgia’s solidly red 14th Congressional District, the Associated Press reported.
“He was the difference maker,” Fuller told Fox News Digital following his victory, as he pointed to Trump. “He was the key factor in us winning…. Our results prove that President Trump means a ton to Georgia-14.”
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.
The special election came as Republicans cling to a razor-thin 218–214 majority in the House. The GOP was under the gun to make sure the Democrats didn’t pull off an upset in the special election, in a district in northwest Georgia that Trump carried by a whopping 37 points in his 2024 presidential victory.
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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)
“It’s extremely crucial, and we need the reinforcements,” Fuller told Fox News Digital on the eve of the runoff election.
Fuller, a local district attorney and a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard who’s served in the Air Force since 2009, added, “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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Asked if he was concerned that MAGA supporters would sit out what was expected to be a low-turnout election since the president is not on the ballot, Fuller said Trump voters “would crawl through glass to make sure they have a representative up there that fights for them and fights for President Trump.”
Harris, a cattle farmer who spent four decades in the military and retired as an Army brigadier general, needed the support of crossover Republicans in order to pull off an upset.
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“I am a Democrat, but I’m not tied to the party,” Harris highlighted as he spoke with Fox News Digital on Monday. And Harris argued, “My opponent, Clay, cannot say that. He actually sold his soul to President Trump.”
Harris narrowly edged Fuller 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.
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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 talked with on the campaign trail were “focused on the fights of the future, not anything that had happened in the past.”
Asked if he spoke 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 he wasn’t “running against Marjorie Taylor Greene anymore,” and that his name “carries more weight than any other name in this district.”
With the vast majority of votes tallied, Harris trailed Fuller by roughly 12 points, which was a significant improvement over his 2024 performance against Greene.
Democrats touted their over performance in the special election runoff.
“Tonight, 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 over performance in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s backyard,” Democratic Party of Georgia Chair Charlie Bailey said in a statement.
And Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin highlighted that Shawn Harris ran a fearless campaign in the reddest district in all of Georgia, delivering a double-digit overperformance.”
Martin argued, “Enthusiasm for Democrats is growing everywhere. We’re closing the gap and Republicans are absolutely terrified.”
Democrats have repeatedly showcased their slew of special election victories and over performances in the nearly 15 months since Trump returned to the White House.
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But Fuller pushed back on the Democrats’ messaging.
“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.
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Fuller doesn’t get much time to enjoy his victory.
He’ll be running in next month’s primary in Georgia as aims to be the party’s nominee in the district in November, when he’ll seek a full two-year term in Congress.
And Harris said he would be running again as well in the midterms.
In a statement, Harris emphasized, “This wasn’t the result we wanted, but the message is clear — people here are ready for leadership that puts them first. The fight continues. On to November!”
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast.