On the Georgia special election
Marjorie Taylor Greene is quite the piece of work, and she has become a big Trump-hater as well. Since she’s resigned from her Congressional seat, she’s been excoriating Trump and just about everything he does. She had long been an Israel-hater, and that continues. Let’s just say she’s more or less on the Tucker wavelength.
The Georgia special election was won by the Republican Clay Fuller, but the results were much closer than in 2024, when Trump won by 37 points. Fuller won by 12. So the left and the press is spinning this loss as a Democrat victory of sorts.
Greene won by 29 points in 2024. She had been endorsed by Trump and so we can assume some of her victory was on his coattails, although she was also the incumbent.
Turnout is nearly always lower in these special elections and favors the party with the most motivation. That would be the Democrats, at the moment. But this is still a red district and it wasn’t close. Nevertheless, it certainly would have been far better had Fuller won a much bigger victory, and in the recent past (not just in Greene’s election) the margins were far bigger for the GOP candidates.
I’ve looked for a while, but can’t find comparative turnout statistics except that it was lower just now than in 2024. If you can find anything more specific, please put it in the comments. I also have looked for Greene’s remarks during the recent campaign – whether she backed Fuller or badmouthed him, or even might have praised Harris (the Democrat). I can’t find a thing; maybe you can. She did keep trashing Trump, however, and Trump backed Fuller.
A most unusual election.
Re turnout, Grok says
“ The 2024 general election had roughly 3 times more votes (~378k) than the March 2026 special (~116k) or the April runoff (~129k).”
It quoted several sources, including PBS.
I’m surprised the turnout was so much lower than the general election
Bob Wilson:
Thanks.
I’m not surprised it was so low. This is a very red district and I am pretty sure people assumed Fuller would win. In 2024 they came out in droves to vote for the presidential election.
Mrs. Greene has some appealing features, but she’s been quite erratic in recent years and it’s difficult to discern what’s going on with her. She also had some personal feud with Lauren Boebert; not sure what that was about.
The Democrat was actually a reputable-sounding person, with a military background, and black, which may have made him more competitive in Georgia.
A 12 point election win is still a landslide win. Landslide threshold is a 10 point win or more. So Fuller won by a landslide.
I’ll take the win. It’s a solid red district. I’m with Cicero.
MTG is the very definition of trailer trash. A rabid antisemite and conspiracy theory promoter.
In special elections it is usually the hard core voters who turn up.
MTG was a great disappointment to me, after an initially promising start as a MAGA supporter. I have no idea if her change was latent the whole time, or something new, and really don’t care.
Here is some more news on Fuller’s win, and what happens next.
https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/04/08/republican-clay-fuller-elected-fill-marjorie-taylor-greenes-unexpired-house-term/
Ace took a look at one of the candidates for the Georgia State House, District 120. She has a nice campaign website, complete with the Orwellian double-speak we are accustomed to, but which sounds so good to the uninformed consumers of Main Stream (Regime) Media.
https://suzannaforstatehouse.com/
This is the clip that does NOT show up in the campaign link.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2041440594703028381
“Meet Suzanna Karatassos (D). She’s running for Georgia State House.
She says if Democrats win then anyone who voted for Trump should lose internet access for four years.”
Although her would-be constituents may actually agree with her on that.
PS There were three shootings in the sidebar when I looked at the Atlanta News; are any of the candidates addressing that recurring phenomenon?
The post at Ace also covered other items of interest this week.
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/419223.php
A landslide is a landslide, and there are lots of serious distractions going on as the election was held. We’ll see come November what’s real and what’s not.
Remember, Trump “had no chance” in ’16 and ’24, before the real election happened, and probably won in ’20 actually.
I do worry that the Congressional GOP is currently giving lots of conservative many reasons to hate their guts.