Trump-backed Republican Clay Fuller wins election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene

Trump-backed Republican Clay Fuller wins election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene23 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleSareen HabeshianReutersRepublican Clay Fuller was endorsed by US President Donald Trump Republican Clay Fuller is projected to have won Georgia's runoff election to replace former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a once-staunch ally of Donald Trump who resigned earlier this year after breaking with the president.Fuller won the election to replace her on Tuesday, according to CBS News, the BBC's US partner. He is a Trump-endorsed candidate who won against Democrat Shawn Harris, and whose victory keeps the staunchly conservative district in Republican hands.The win shores up the party's razor-thin 217-214 majority in the House of Representatives.Fuller, a lieutenant colonel in the Georgia Air National Guard, will serve out the rest of Greene's term, which ends next January.A special election was held on 10 March where Harris performed marginally better than Fuller, in part because a crowded Republican field split the vote. No single candidate won a majority that night, requiring Tuesday's run off election.In order to hold the seat in Congress beyond next January, Fuller will have to immediately start campaiging agai, this time for the midterm elections this November. It's possible he will face off with Fuller again.Fuller, who was a White House fellow during Trump's first term, is closely aligned with the president's agenda, particularly on curbing illegal immigration and enacting mass deportations.He rose to the top of a crowded Republican primary field in large part due to Trump's endorsement. Washington closely followed the race from afar for indications of Trump's sway with his base ahead of the midterm elections. "In general, part of President Trump's strategy in endorsing Fuller was this recognition that the most red meat, MAGA-affiliated candidate in this particular i...