“We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.” —John Adams (1797)
Special congressional elections are complicated and generally result in abysmal voter turnout, often worse if they go to a runoff.
But there is one election this week where the Demo propaganda stakes are higher than any other contest ahead of the midterms: The race to fill the seat of former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. That election is now headed for a runoff on 7 April, and Demos hope they can buy this headline on 8 April: “Democrat Defeats Trump-Backed Candidate in MTG’s District.”
Among recent elections won by Democrats rumored to be early warning signs for Republicans would be the Miami mayoral race in December, where a Democrat took the office for the first time in nearly 30 years. Miami is about 70% Hispanic, much of that of Cuban descent, and that Demo defeated the Trump-endorsed Hispanic candidate in a landslide — the Republican only getting 41% of the vote. That was a seismic shift.
And then there was the election that Demos and their Leftmedia talkingheads and scribes declared was a final nail in the coffin of Republican midterm House and Senate majority retention — the special election for the 9th District Texas State Senate seat. Leftist union boss Taylor Rehmet flipped a Republican seat, defeating his opponent by 14% in a district that Donald Trump carried by 17 points in 2024. The district had not been represented by a Democrat since 1991.
Despite the fact that this was just a state district election, the propaganda value of this win was significant, even though Rehmet will likely be unseated in November when he attempts to defend the seat.
Moreover, Rehmet’s win reflected a Demo strategy to rally their constituents for an election that they knew would bring out few voters — in this case, only 15% of registered voters turned out.
Now, to be clear, in both the Miami and Texas Demo victories, there were two major factors that Trump is now trying to correct.
First, as I noted last year, was Trump’s failure to stay on message regarding the number one concern of Americans: the economy. Trump is still struggling to convince voters his top concern is “affordability.”
But a much bigger factor in the heavily Hispanic Miami and Texas elections, as I also noted last December, was the failure of the administration to recognize the disastrous political implications of its ICE operation optics. They did not finally get those optics right until February.
So, what was the special election strategy takeaway from the Texas Senate election that is central to the Demos’ effort to win in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District — a win that would be their single biggest propaganda win ahead of the midterms?
They have demonstrated that big bucks can flip a Republican district in an election with low voter turnout.
Georgia’s 14th District special election this week was for the seat abruptly vacated by Republican agitator Marjorie Taylor Greene after she fell into disfavor with Trump last November — realizing that without Trump, she would not win the primary to retain her seat.
In the crowded primary contest Tuesday, with 12 Republicans and three Democrats, a Libertarian and an Independent, two candidates advanced to the runoff on 7 April. The Republican is our friend and neighbor, State District Attorney Clay Fuller, who is backed by Trump.
His opponent will be Demo Shawn Harris.
Clay is also an Air National Guard LtCol, Deputy Staff Judge Advocate, and former White House Fellow.
Harris has a long record as a Veteran and retired senior Army National Guard officer. But his record is deeply tarnished by his association with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and their Democrat Party socialists, who have willfully undermined our military and national security capabilities.
Despite the fact that 17 candidates were on the ballot, there was just a two-point spread between Harris and Fuller, but Fuller and other Republicans got about 59% of the vote, leaving Harris and Democrats with about 41%.
The winner of the upcoming runoff will serve out the remainder of Greene’s term until January 2027 and will have to defend the seat in the general election this November.
So, how do I know that the Demos are banking big time on winning this district in the 7 April runoff?
Harris previously ran against Greene in 2024, getting about 36% of the vote — similar to his vote tally this week. But as of today, Harris has raised almost $4.3 million from the Demos’ nationwide network of big donors and their political action committee ActBlue.
That is $1.3 million more than the other 16 candidates combined.
By comparison, Fuller has raised about $490,000 and has loaned his campaign about $300,000. Of course, given the fact that Greene announced her resignation in November, Republicans have only had four months to raise funds.
With the two 7 April runoff finalists now determined, the Demo strategy is again banking on big donor bucks for Harris and low voter turnout — using Harris’s huge money advantage to activate his constituency, which was their model for success in the Texas Senate seat special election.
At R+19, Georgia’s 14th is the state’s most Republican-leaning district, so a Demo win there would be the biggest propaganda coup this year.
Harris claims: “We know we’re going to get all of the Democratic vote. We know we’re going to do extremely well with the independents. And we know we’re pulling roughly somewhere between 15% and 20% when it comes to Republicans.”
Meanwhile, Fuller says: “I think it’s important for us to unite as a party. We know that the Republican Party is going to consolidate around President Trump’s choice. We’re going to drive out the vote. Everybody in the field understands that a Democrat cannot represent Georgia 14 … and we’re going to rally around as a party and go defeat Shawn Harris.”
To do that, Fuller will have to win the support of fellow Republican and former state Sen. Colton Moore, who placed third with 12% of the vote.
Stay tuned.
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