Overview
- Fuller defeated Democrat Shawn Harris in Tuesday’s runoff, 56% to 44%, a result the Associated Press confirmed Wednesday.
- The 12-point GOP win reflects a roughly 17–20 point shift toward Democrats versus 2024, which strategists say fits a pattern of Democratic overperformance in low-turnout special elections.
- Trump praised Fuller on Truth Social and derided Greene, calling her a traitor and saying Fuller was a “very large improvement” over his “deranged predecessor.”
- Greene escalated her break with Trump this week, telling CNN he is “mentally unstable” and urging his removal under the 25th Amendment, and telling Alex Jones the Republican Party “needs burned to the ground.”
- Fuller’s arrival gives Speaker Mike Johnson one more reliable vote in a narrow House majority, and he now heads straight into a May 19 primary before a likely November rematch with Harris.