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The winner gets the job.
That’s what’s at stake in the elections in Georgia and Wisconsin on Tuesday, April 7th. Voters in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District will vote in a runoff election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene in the U.S. House of Representatives, while voters in Wisconsin will choose a new state Supreme Court justice and other local offices.
These races are not primaries, but are part of a unique 2026 electoral roll nationwide that promises Republicans and Democrats a chance to retain or win power. Additionally, the success of President Donald Trump’s policies in his second term will depend on the political balance, and the stakes are high, even for state and local level positions.
Here’s what you need to know about the April 7 race and why it’s important to the country.
Georgia US House of Representatives Vacancy
On Tuesday, a runoff election will be held in the Peach State between two candidates: Democrat Sean Harris and Trump-backed Republican Clay Fuller.
The primary election held on March 10th resulted in a run-off as no candidate received more than 50% of the vote. Harris received 37.3% of the vote in the primary, the most of any Democrat by a wide margin, according to CNN and the Associated Press. Fuller, backed by President Trump, received 34.9% of the vote, defeating Republicans Colton Moore, Brian Stover and Tom Gray.
Ms. Harris leads Ms. Fuller in campaign fundraising, with Mr. Fuller showing $1.2 million and Ms. Harris more than $6.4 million as of April 2, according to the Federal Election Commission. At a rally in Rome, Georgia, Harris received support from Democratic heavyweights including former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Raphael Warnock. But Mr. Fuller’s victory over his Republican peer last month may indicate that Mr. Trump’s support still weighs heavily in the minds of voters in heavily Republican districts.
Both candidates have been doing everything they can to make their case to voters since the primary. Last week, both Harris and Fuller attended a town hall meeting regarding permanent chemical exposure in local industry, Local 3 News reported.
Whoever wins the race will immediately head to Congress. A Harris victory and the district flipping to blue could narrowly hurt the Republican majority in the House, while a Fuller victory could boost support for the Republican plan.
Wisconsin Supreme Court retains liberal control
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is comprised of seven justices, currently six women and one man, each serving a 10-year term. Judges will be elected in a so-called spring election to be held on April 7 of this year. The Supreme Court race is the only statewide race on the April 7 ballot.
Two people are running for judgeship, and both currently serve on state appellate courts. Maria Lazar, a conservative appellate court judge who served as assistant attorney general in former Gov. Scott Walker’s administration, will face Court of Appeals Judge Chris Taylor, a former Democratic state lawmaker who served as policy director for Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin.
The 2026 Supreme Court race may not have the same national resonance as the 2025 race, won by liberal Susan Crawford in a record-breaking race for the nation’s most expensive judicial race. No matter who wins this year’s election, the court’s current liberal majority will remain the same.
Do these races matter?
It may be worth paying attention to races in these states for several reasons.
First, race is not a primary. That means the winner will not run another election in November. The winner of Georgia’s runoff elections will head to Washington to begin work. The winner of the Wisconsin race will then be sworn in to the bench and serve a 10-year term.
In Wisconsin, even if the winner doesn’t come at the expense of the liberal majority, the court is likely to take up issues with national implications, such as recent challenges to the state’s legislative maps and rulings that only the state Supreme Court has the power to overturn under current litigation conditions. Another lawsuit against the map is expected in 2027, according to the USA TODAY Network’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. This comes in the wake of a growing movement in states to revise their congressional maps ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
The immediate impact of the Georgia election will be on the U.S. House of Representatives, where Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) could gain allies or enemies. Greene’s successor could line up with a slim Republican majority in the House or become a new Democratic critic in the House, further testing Trump’s policy success in Washington during his second term.
Contributor: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
