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GA-14 · House

election-day forecast · ground-up model · as of 2026-10-02

Safe R
0%
Shawn Harris
Democrat
100%
Clay Fuller
Republican
Expected margin and its 90% range
R+40R+20R+10EvenD+10D+20D+40R+26.8
What moves this district (points of margin; blue toward the Democrat, red toward the Republican)
2024 presidential lean−26.4
2024 House lean−4.5
experience gap−0.4
asian share−0.4
2020 presidential lean−0.3

The district, in brief

Georgia's 14th district is in the northwest corner of the state. The facts record the lines as the map first used in 2024, not redrawn for this cycle, with a 2024 two-party presidential margin of -37.5 points for the Democrat on these lines.

Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, re-elected with 64.4% of the vote in 2024, resigned on January 5, 2026; district attorney Clay Fuller won the special election in a runoff and is the incumbent. Fuller is the Republican nominee, having won the primary with 81.3% over state senator Colton Moore (6.7%), former Paulding County commissioner Brian Stover (3.9%), pastor Tom Gray (2.5%) and four others; Greene, Jim Tully and Eric Cunningham withdrew. The Democratic nominee is Shawn Harris, a cattleman, retired brigadier general and the 2024 nominee, unopposed in his primary after Clarence Blalock withdrew to run for Labor Commissioner and endorsed him. The facts list Libertarian Andrew Underwood, but the text lists him as disqualified. As of April 29, 2026 Fuller had raised $1,669,692 with $77,174 on hand; Harris had raised $7,898,796 with $74,022 on hand.

Every rater listed calls the seat R: Decision Desk HQ (July 14, 2026), the Cook Political Report (February 6, 2025), Inside Elections (March 7, 2025) and Sabato's Crystal Ball (July 15, 2025). The text records no district polls.

A paragraph quoting a model forecast from the day this brief was written is omitted; the current forecast is at the top of this page.

The facts, each beside its sentence

Incumbent
Clay Fuller (R), elected in a 2026 special election after Marjorie Taylor Greene resignedA special election was held with district attorney Clay Fuller winning the election in a runoff and serving the remainder of the term.
Open seat
noClay Fuller, incumbent U.S. Representative
Democratic nominee
Shawn HarrisShawn Harris, cattleman, retired brigadier general, and nominee for this district in 2024
Republican nominee
Clay FullerClay Fuller, incumbent U.S. Representative
Democrat's background
cattleman, retired brigadier general, 2024 nominee for this districtShawn Harris, cattleman, retired brigadier general, and nominee for this district in 2024
Republican's background
incumbent U.S. representative; district attorney before the special electionA special election was held with district attorney Clay Fuller winning the election in a runoff
Last result
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) re-elected with 64.4% in 2024; resigned January 5, 2026Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene was re-elected with 64.4% of the vote in 2024, but she resigned on January 5, 2026.
Primaries
Fuller won the Republican primary with 81.3% over state senator Colton Moore (6.7%), Brian Stover (3.9%), Tom Gray (2.5%) and four others; Harris was unopposed in the Democratic primary with 100.0%candidate: Clay Fuller (incumbent) party: Republican Party (United States) votes: 66,888 percentage: 81.3
Raters
Decision Desk HQ: R (July 14, 2026); Cook: R (February 6, 2025); Inside Elections: R (March 7, 2025); Sabato's Crystal Ball: R (July 15, 2025)Decision Desk HQ R July 14, 2026 The Cook Political Report R February 6, 2025
Money
As of April 29, 2026: Fuller raised $1,669,692 with $77,174 on hand; Harris raised $7,898,796 with $74,022 on hand; Underwood (L) raised $2,987 with $275 on handShawn Harris (D) $7,898,796 $7,824,775 $74,022
Also
The district is in the northwest corner of the stateThe 14th district is based in the northwest corner of the state.
Marjorie Taylor Greene withdrew from the Republican primary after resigning the seatMarjorie Taylor Greene, former U.S. representative *Jim Tully, congressional staffer and chairman of the 14th District Republican Party
Libertarian Andrew Underwood, who ran in the 2026 special election, is listed as disqualifiedAndrew Underwood, candidate for Georgia's 2nd House of Representatives district in 2022 and for this district in the 2026 special election
Independent Rob Ruszkowski withdrew; Democrat Clarence Blalock withdrew to run for Labor Commissioner and endorsed HarrisClarence Blalock, GIS contractor and candidate for this district in 2024 (running for Labor Commissioner, endorsed Harris)

Not in the source: The text gives no result, date or opponent for the special election beyond Fuller winning a runoff.; The text does not say why Greene resigned.; The facts list Andrew Underwood (L) as a candidate but the text says he was disqualified; the text does not say why.; No general-election ratings finer than 'R' are given (no Lean/Likely/Safe).; The text has no district polls, and the model's basis says none.

Read from the district's section of Wikipedia's state page (CC BY-SA), archived as 8dd0eeb20588; written by claude-fable-5-1 (batch reader) on 2026-09-30 and checked mechanically: every quote occurs verbatim in the archived text, every number in the brief occurs in the inputs. No probability here is the reader's.

Who holds the seat now

Clay Fuller (Republican), in this chamber since 2026, 1 term. Committees: House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; House Committee on Small Business.

From the congress-legislators dataset (CC0), archived as ae8cb9477c48. For a Senate race this lists both of the state's senators; the one whose term ends in the election year holds the seat on the ballot. For a House district redrawn for 2026 it is the member elected under the old lines with this number, who may be running elsewhere; the dossier above names who is running here.

How it has voted for president

Two-party margin201620202024
PresidentR+40.9R+33.5R+33.4

A shift of 7.6 points toward the Democrats from 2016 to 2024. county returns placed on the current lines by 2020 block population; MEDSL county file (2016), an MIT-licensed county file (2020, checked against certified state results) and MEDSL precinct returns (2024). For a district split across counties this is an estimate, and where the state published the exact 2024 figure for these lines, that exact figure is the one the model uses.

Who are the voters?

Group (adults 25+)Share of adultsTurnout 2020 / midtermShare of a midterm electorateEst. Democratic share, 2020
White, no degree56%61% / 50%53%12%
White, degree20%83% / 77%29%40%
Black11%63% / 53%11%89%
Hispanic10%24% / 23%4%52%
Asian2%30% / 25%1%60%
Other / multiracial2%61% / 52%2%54%

Of about 511,919 adults 25 and over. In 2020 the district voted 31.0% Democratic (two-party) for president. With the same preferences and a 2022-style midterm turnout, it would vote 31.8% Democratic: the midterm electorate alone moves the margin 1.4 points toward Democrats. Group shares are estimated from how results vary across the state's census tracts (ecological inference, anchored to Pew's 2020 validated-voter figures) and calibrated to this district's actual 2020 vote; turnout is the Census survey's state rate by race and national rate by education, whose state samples carry margins of several points.

Not answered here: how each group will vote in 2026. These are 2020 preferences; this profile is description, not yet an input to the forecast.

The money

CandidateRaisedCash on handPAC shareSelf-fundedOutside $ forOutside $ against
Harris, Shawn (DEM)
open seat
$8,098,514$18,2300%0%$17,958$445,638
Fuller, Clay (REP)
incumbent
$1,846,892$70,51817%24%$2,755,868$26,500
Stover, Brian C. (REP)
open seat · not on our roster
$1,121,092$6150%70%$0$0
Moore, Colton (REP)
open seat · not on our roster
$442,197$06%0%$195,154$37,000
Lama, Nicky (REP)
open seat · not on our roster
$380,341$21,3490%82%$0$0
Gray, Thomas Jonathan Jackson (REP)
open seat · not on our roster
$327,583$2,9712%0%$0$0
Black, Star (REP)
open seat · not on our roster
$84,477$00%89%$0$0
Box, Reagan (REP)
open seat · not on our roster
$82,286$-2000%0%$0$0
Tully, Jim (REP)
open seat · not on our roster
$68,505$00%63%$0$0
Hurd, Christian Michael (REP)
open seat · not on our roster
$21,563$00%0%$0$0
Craig, Jared (REP)
open seat · not on our roster
$21,000$950%5%$0$0
Blalock, Clarence (DEM)
open seat · not on our roster
$17,356$-1,1770%12%$0$0
Cunningham, Eric B (REP)
open seat · not on our roster
$16,075$00%62%$0$0
Turnipseed, Jenna Jaye (REP)
open seat · not on our roster
$15,427$00%59%$0$0
Strickland, Megahn (REP)
open seat · not on our roster
$14,580$00%70%$0$0
Brown, Timothy Beau (REP)
open seat · not on our roster
$13,050$6,2120%47%$0$0
Brown, James M Mr (REP)
open seat · not on our roster
$9,880$1,4920%85%$0$0
Ruszkowski ( Rush ), Rob (NNE)
open seat · not on our roster
$9,703$6860%92%$0$0
Underwood, Andrew Paul (LIB)
open seat
$2,987$2750%45%$0$0
Criswell, Jefferson Edward (REP)
open seat · not on our roster
$2,505$00%19%$0$0
Risner, Linvel (REP)
open seat · not on our roster
$1,930$6050%75%$0$0

FEC bulk candidate summaries through July 24, 2026; $3,478,118 of independent expenditures for or against these candidates this cycle (FEC Schedule E, types 24E and 24A), which is the parties' and outside groups' own revealed view of whether this seat is in play.

The district in numbers

MeasureDistrictNationDifference
Bachelor's degree or higher, 25+23.2%34.9%-11.7 pts
White, non-Hispanic68.1%58.2%+9.9 pts
Black, non-Hispanic13.7%12.0%+1.7 pts
Hispanic or Latino13.2%19.0%-5.8 pts
Asian, non-Hispanic1.2%5.8%-4.6 pts
Foreign-born8.0%13.9%-5.9 pts
Median age38.539.2-0.7
Median household income$71,533$84,362$-12,829
Median home value$223,500$379,737$-156,237
Owner-occupied homes73.0%65.1%+7.9 pts
Unemployment, July 2026 (BLS county data)3.2%4.4%-1.2 pts
Change in unemployment, past 12 months-0.8 pts——
Change since the last election (24 months)-0.6 pts——
Unemployment (ACS)4.8%5.2%-0.4 pts
Federal government workers1.5%2.6%-1.2 pts
Work from home9.7%13.5%-3.8 pts
Households on SNAP11.3%11.8%-0.4 pts
Households with Social Security income32.3%31.2%+1.1 pts
Households with public assistance income2.4%2.7%-0.3 pts
Moved in from another state, past year2.1%2.3%-0.2 pts
Gini index0.400.44-0.04
Per-capita personal income (BEA), 2024$53,818$73,248$-19,430
Per-capita income growth since 2019, nominal, 202429.9%32.0%-2.1 pts
Government and other transfers, share of income, 202421.3%19.6%+1.7 pts
Social Security, share of income, 20227.2%5.8%+1.3 pts
Medicare, share of income, 20225.2%4.5%+0.7 pts
Medicaid, share of income, 20222.7%4.0%-1.3 pts
SNAP, share of income, 20220.7%0.6%+0.1 pts
Earned Income Tax Credit, share of income, 20220.6%0.4%+0.2 pts
Veterans' benefits, share of income, 20220.9%0.9%+0.1 pts
Federal civilian jobs, share of all jobs, 20220.4%1.3%-0.9 pts
Military jobs, share of all jobs, 20220.5%0.9%-0.4 pts

ACS 5-year 2023, the Census Bureau's own tabulation of this district (118th Congress lines). Unemployment is the BLS county series placed on the district by block population, not seasonally adjusted, so changes are same-month comparisons. Income, transfers and jobs are BEA county accounts placed the same way, compared with the average district. Every other figure is a named column of a named table in the Bureau's summary file, archived before it was read. This is what a reader knows about a district before looking at a poll; the model does not yet use it, and whether it should is a registered question.

Who is favoured, and by how much?

>99%
Clay Fuller
run 6f211e6f · house_district_prior/0.2.0 · as of 2026-10-02
-26.9
expected margin, D-R
run 6f211e6f · house_district_prior/0.2.0 · as of 2026-10-02

The 90% interval runs from -40.9 to -13.0 points, D-R. It is wide because this district has never been polled.

What is this built on?

A model trained on every contested House race 2012-2024 predicts this district's lean from its own record: presidential and House results on the current lines, incumbency, both candidates' prior offices, outside and party money before 1 October, demographics and public-assistance shares from the Census release before the election, local unemployment and income, and religious tradition. The national margin comes from presidential approval, the economy, the midterm penalty and the generic ballot corrected for its measured lean. Draws share national and state errors, so the seat total and this district come from the same simulation.

Not answered here: district polls, which are not yet folded in.

Why does the model say this?

Each figure is how far this district's predicted lean moves when that one feature is set to the typical value across 2026 districts, everything else held: 2024 presidential lean (R+36.0): 26.4 pts toward the Republican; 2024 House lean (R+26.0): 4.5 pts toward the Republican; experience gap (-4 levels, D minus R): 0.4 pts toward the Republican; asian share (1.7%): 0.4 pts toward the Republican; 2020 presidential lean (R+42.5): 0.3 pts toward the Republican.

How sure is it, and of what?

Total sd 8.52 points, made of the seat's own volatility 88%, correlated polling error 12%. The decomposition is stored with the forecast rather than reconstructed, so a probability whose dominant input is a placeholder is visibly that.

Not answered here: a nowcast. 'If ballots were cast today' needs something that observes today, and for a House district nothing does. Publishing the election-day figure under both labels would make one forecast look like two.

How was this number made?

Run 6f211e6f-2bdc-4dda-8f72-81fc628dab0b, house_district_prior/0.2.0, as of 2026-10-02. Promoted by a pre-registered gate: on 2016-2022 its Brier score was 0.036 against 0.049 for the previous method, and on a single 2024 run 0.023 against 0.032 (experiments/district_gate_result.md, with an independent review).