President Donald Trump's dominance over the Republican Party was reaffirmed on Tuesday, March 10, after his preferred candidate to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took one step closer to filling the Make America Great Again matriarch's shoes in Congress.
Republican Clay Fuller, a former prosecutor, came in second among a field of more than a dozen candidates in Georgia's special election to replace Greene, who resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives in January after months of clashing with the president.
Fuller overcame all the other GOP contenders for the seat, which stretches from Atlanta's northern suburbs into the Peach State's mountainous Appalachia border with Tennessee.
Trump's endorsement in early February helped Fuller, a 44-year-old retired Air National Guard member, stand out among other conservatives in the race who argued they were better suited to carry the torch.
"I think it is a reaffirmation that the voters (here) support the president (and) hear what he thinks about the people he wants to carry on his agenda," Fuller told USA TODAY in a one-on-one interview shortly after the results were announced.
