Rep. Lucy McBath has defeated fellow Rep. Carolyn Bourdeaux in the member-versus-member Democratic primary for Georgia’s newly redrawn 7th District.
McBath came out on top in a primary that pitted Democratic stars of the past two elections against each other, after Georgia Republicans passed a new congressional map that packed together Democrats from both of their old swing districts. The map left one winnable district for the two Democratic incumbents.
Both Democrats were seen as having promising futures in the party, and now only McBath will return to the House of Representatives next year, after what should be an easy win in November. She was able to successfully build a national profile, fueled by outside groups pouring millions of dollars into the primary.
McBath is known in part for the personal story that led her to run for office. She survived breast cancer twice and was an active gun control reform advocate after her son was killed in 2012. She flipped Georgia’s 6th District blue in 2018, beating out then-Republican Rep. Karen Handel, before easily...
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