GA-14 special election Special Election

Clayton Fuller

Republican

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Clayton McLean Fuller is a Republican candidate for the U.S. House in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. He served as district attorney for the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit in northwest Georgia and previously worked as an assistant district attorney. Fuller is a lieutenant colonel and deputy staff judge advocate in the Air National Guard and was a White House Fellow during the Trump administration, serving in the Office of the Vice President and at the Department of Defense.

Shawn Harris

Democrat

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Shawn Harris is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. He previously ran in GA-14 in 2024. He has served in senior national-security roles including as a Senior Defense Official/Defense Attaché at the U.S. Department of State and as Chief of Staff at NATO, and held leadership positions in the Army National Guard. His education includes Tuskegee University, Grand Valley State University, and the U.S. Army War College.

Star Black

Republican

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Star Black is a Republican candidate for U.S. House in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. She is a retired Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) professional with decades of experience in disaster response and recovery logistics and coordination with government and nonprofit partners. She has also described herself as an entrepreneur and former CEO who founded multiple businesses in Georgia’s 14th District.

Kasey Carpenter

Republican

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Kasey Scott Carpenter is a Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives, representing District 4. First sworn in on November 20, 2017, he has served as chairman of the House Creative Arts & Entertainment Committee. He is a business owner and has been identified as a restaurant owner. Carpenter earned a B.A. in finance from the University of Georgia.

Jeff Criswell

Republican

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Jeff Criswell is a Republican candidate for the U.S. House and has run previously for Congress in Georgia's 7th District in 2024. His campaign biography describes him as an entrepreneur and educator and says he founded the baseball brand A.D. Starr in 1990, naming it after his sons Aaron and Donnie, and later sold the brand. He has used the campaign slogan framing himself as a conservative, entrepreneur, educator, and dad.

Brian Stover

Republican

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Brian C. Stover is a Republican candidate for the U.S. House in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District (special election scheduled for 2026-03-10). He is a small business owner and has served on the Paulding County Board of Commissioners. His campaign describes him as a longtime Paulding County resident and an America First conservative supporting President Trump’s agenda.

Martin Momtahan

Republican

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Martin Arash Momtahan is a Republican politician and small business owner from Paulding County, Georgia. He has served in the Georgia House of Representatives representing District 17 since January 2019. His professional background includes operating West Metro Driving School, and he is a graduate of Paulding County High School and Kennesaw State University.

Katie Dempsey

Republican

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Katie Montgomery Dempsey is a Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives, representing District 13 (Rome and parts of Floyd County) since 2007. She has served in leadership roles including chairing the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Human Resources. Her background includes owning small businesses in Rome and earning a B.S. in Early Childhood Education from the University of Georgia.

Marcus Flowers

Democrat

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Marcus Flowers is a Democratic candidate and U.S. Army veteran who ran for Congress in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District in 2022 against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. He later filed as a Democratic candidate for Georgia’s 13th Congressional District in the 2024 cycle. He is also the founder and president of Hold the Line PAC and has described prior work as a civilian official/contractor supporting the U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense.

Laura Loomer

Republican

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Laura Elizabeth Loomer is an American political activist and media personality who has run for the U.S. House of Representatives in Florida’s 11th congressional district as a Republican. She studied at Mount Holyoke College before transferring to Barry University, where she earned a BS and graduated in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism. She has worked with outlets and organizations including Project Veritas and has hosted the streaming show “Loomer Unleashed” on Rumble.

Elvis Casely

Republican

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Elvis Julian Casely Jr is a Republican candidate who filed with the FEC for U.S. House in Georgia’s 14th congressional district for the 2026 cycle. He has described himself as an Afro-Latino American and the son of immigrants, and has said he is married and has a young son. He has worked in sales and marketing and has also worked as an actor in commercials and short films.

John Cowan

Republican

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Dr. John Cowan is a Republican physician and board-certified neurosurgeon associated with Harbin Clinic in Rome, Georgia. He was a candidate for U.S. House in Georgia's 14th Congressional District in 2020 and advanced to the Republican runoff, where he lost to Marjorie Taylor Greene. He has also been involved in business as an entrepreneur, including founding/leading Cortex Holdings and Cortex Toys.

Uloma Ekpete Kama

Republican

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Uloma Ekpete Kama is a Republican candidate for the U.S. House (Georgia’s 3rd Congressional District) in the 2026 cycle. She previously ran for U.S. House in Georgia’s 13th Congressional District in the 2024 primary. Public candidate profiles list her professional experience as a clinical documentation specialist, freelance writer, and substitute teacher.

Jim Davis

Democrat

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Jim Davis is a Democratic candidate in the March 10, 2026 special election for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. He has been described in press coverage as a retired businessman and has not previously held elected office. He is running on a message emphasizing stability, experience, and “steady leadership.”

Jonathan Hobbs

Democrat

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Jonathan Hobbs is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District in the March 10, 2026 special election. He is a Dallas, Georgia resident and has described himself publicly as a registered patent practitioner. His campaign messaging emphasizes affordability, infrastructure, and health care.

Clarence Blalock

Democrat

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Clarence Blalock is a Georgia Democrat who has run for public office, including U.S. House in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District (2024). He has worked in geographic information systems (GIS) and local government planning roles and has described himself as a small business owner. He has also sought the Democratic nomination for Georgia Labor Commissioner in 2026.

Jason Anavitarte

Republican

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Jason Raul Anavitarte is a Republican member of the Georgia State Senate representing District 31 (Paulding and Polk counties), first taking office in January 2021. In June 2025, he became Majority Leader of the Georgia State Senate. Before serving in the Senate, he served on the Paulding County Board of Education and previously held local office in Doraville. He has worked in the private sector and healthcare-related roles and holds degrees from Georgia State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Chuck Hufstetler

Republican

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Chuck Hufstetler is a Republican member of the Georgia State Senate, representing District 52 since 2013. He has worked as a certified registered nurse anesthetist and has taught as an adjunct professor of medicine at Emory University. He previously served on the Floyd County Commission.

Rob Ruszkowski

Independent

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Rob “Rush” Ruszkowski is an independent candidate for U.S. House in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. He is a small-business owner and former sales professional who founded and grew Hi-Tech Paging Inc. in the Atlanta area in the 1990s. He earned a finance degree from Hofstra University and has been involved in political organizing, including work as a virtual outreach coordinator for Dennis Kucinich’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Nicky Lama

Republican

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Nicholas "Nicky" Lama is a Republican candidate for the U.S. House in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District in the March 10, 2026 special election. He previously served on the Dalton (Georgia) City Council representing Ward 2, first elected in 2023 and later re-elected in 2025. He resigned from the City Council in January 2026 after launching his congressional campaign. He has been described as a small business owner and is a graduate of Dalton High School.