Race for Marjorie Taylor Greene District Is Test for Trump and the GOP

A special US House election Tuesday in a deeply conservative Georgia district is playing out against the backdrop of growing economic unease and the potential for a rapidly escalating war against Iran, creating a referendum on President Donald Trump months before November’s midterm elections.

Clay Fuller, the Republican candidate, is the favorite to win the seat vacated by former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the onetime Trump firebrand turned critic who resigned from Congress earlier this year. But an over-performance by Democrat Shawn Harris in a district Trump led by nearly 37 percentage points in 2024 could foretell trouble for Republicans this fall in Georgia, a swing state, and beyond.