Last Tuesday, the GRA’s endorsed candidate for the 14th Congressional District race, former State Sen. Colton Moore came in third place out of 17 candidates! Colton was severely out-spent in the race — even by those who garnered fewer votes than him on election night. He spent roughly half a million dollars in comparison to Clay Fuller’s roughly $2 million (including PAC money spent on his behalf) and Democrat Shawn Harris’ $4 million. Both President Donald Trump and the late Charlie Kirk have praised Colton for his “courage”!
Colton ran a clean campaign. However, some crude and unsubstantiated attacks on one of Colton’s opponents were sent out as text blasts by an unknown entity late Monday evening — and made to look as if they came from Colton’s campaign. Colton assured voters they were not from his campaign. The GRA also decried the absurdly exaggerated texts, which were clearly designed to hurt Colton more than the other candidate.
But the race is not over. Colton has also qualified in this race to run in the May 19th Republican Primary. At the Watch Party last Tuesday evening, Colton gave this thank-you message to all the many GRA members who volunteered over the last five weeks for his campaign, door-knocking, sign-waving, and phone-banking:
“There are no greater patriots in the state than GRA members,” said Moore. “You stood fast against any type of adversity and any type of threat to our freedom. You work harder than anyone else… Stay in the fight because, ultimately, the next generation depends on it!”
Democrat Shawn Harris will now face a runoff with the candidate who came in second place on April 7th. Colton stressed how important it is for Democrat Harris not to win this election. “I’m definitely going to be supporting whoever the Republican nominee is,” Colton said at the GRA 14th District Regional Endorsement Convention. “I guarantee you that. Because these Democrats, this guy [Harris] claims to be a cattleman, [but] he can’t even define what a man or a woman is! I mean, these people are on looney-tune land.”
The candidate who wins the April 7th runoff will serve the remainder of Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s term for only this year. Many of the same candidates who ran in the special election will face off again in the Republican May 19th primary, and whoever wins that and the general election in November will represent the 14th Congressional District for the next two years. The 14th Congressional District has been considered a ruby-red Republican district, so any loss to a Democrat there would be shocking.
