Republican Clay Fuller won a US House seat in a deeply conservative Georgia district even as Democratic gains served as an early warning for GOP lawmakers navigating voter disapproval of the war with Iran and President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy.
With about 95% of the votes counted, Fuller had 56% compared to 44% for the Democratic candidate, Shawn Harris, according to Decision Desk HQ. That would keep the seat vacated by conservative firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene in Republican hands, but by a slimmer margin than in recent elections. Trump had carried the district by 37 percentage ...
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