In a race that could be a barometer of how popular the former president actually is with voters, a Trump-endorsed candidate in a newly-redrawn Georgia district lost badly to a candidate endorsed by Georgia’s Republican Governor Brian Kemp, a Trump nemesis because he refused to overturn the state’s 2020 election.
According to the New York Times, Rich McCormick, a physician, will represent the Republican Party in the November election for the Georgia 6th Congressional District, which had been a safe Democratic seat until it was redrawn. Endorsed by mainstream Republicans, McCormick beat Jake Evans, a lawyer and the son of one of Trump’s foreign ambassadors.
With 88% of the vote in, McCormick holds 67% of the vote to Evans’ 33%.