Georgia's 14th Congressional District didn't flip, but it sent a loud signal. Republican Clay Fuller easily held the deep-red seat in Tuesday's special runoff, yet the result marked the sharpest Democratic gain in any special election since the start of 2025, the New York Times reports. President Trump carried the district by 37 points in 2024; Fuller won by roughly 12, a Democratic improvement of about 25 points. That shift tops the previous standout in Florida's 1st District, where a GOP candidate's margin shrank by about 22 points compared with Trump's 2024 performance. Democrats have increased their margins in all seven special House elections since Trump returned to office.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who was re-elected in 2024 by around 29 points, resigned in January after a rift with Trump, triggering the multi-candidate March special election that led to Tuesday's runoff vote. In the district, the reddest in Georgia, the biggest movement came in Floyd County, home to Rome and Berry College, with an estimated 30-point leftward swing. Democrat Shawn Harris also captured the Cobb County slice of the district, which backed both Trump and Greene in 2024.
In another vote Tuesday, Democratic-backed candidate Chris Taylor was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She won by around 20 points in a state Trump carried in 2024 and made gains in GOP strongholds. "It's a wow moment in Wisconsin politics," former Republican strategist Brandon Scholz tells Politico. "Republicans ought to be sitting down tonight and going, 'Okay, we just screwed up another race. What are we going to do in November?'"
- Republicans in Georgia and Wisconsin, however, say the swings don't point to trouble in November. Republican voters don't show up for spring elections like they used to, a GOP strategist in Wisconsin tells Politico. "The electorate is so different now."
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