{"id":1626909,"date":"2022-08-30T11:51:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1626909"},"modified":"2022-08-30T11:51:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T15:51:14","slug":"two-georgia-candidates-look-to-surf-demographic-trends-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-georgia-candidates-look-to-surf-demographic-trends-to-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Georgia Candidates Look to Surf Demographic Trends to Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwo-georgia-candidates-look-to-surf-demographic-trends-to-congress%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1626909&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The two candidates running for an open North <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-georgia\">Georgia<\/a> Congressional seat each see an opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Rich McCormick, the frontrunner in a district drawn for a Republican, sees it in his party\u2019s growing appeal to minorities and women, work he thinks he is cut out to do.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic nominee Bob Christian, facing an uphill battle in a district stretching from Atlanta\u2019s northern suburbs to the edge of Georgia\u2019s northern mountains, sees his opportunity in the newcomers flooding the area since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/29\/bob-christian.jpg\"><\/a> Bob Christian, the Democratic nominee for Georgia\u2019s longtime Republican 6th Congressional District, thinks he can flip it. (Courtesy of Bob Christian) <\/p>\n<p>District 6 was once a Republican stronghold in the suburbs. It launched Newt Gingrich on a path to becoming Speaker of the House, Johnny Isakson toward the U.S. Senate, and Tom Price to becoming Donald Trump\u2019s secretary of health and human services.<\/p>\n<p>But the district became more purple as the suburbs expanded and the proverbial \u201csoccer moms\u201d\u2014suburban women\u2014rejected Trump. Lucy McBath won the seat as a Democrat in 2018, defeating incumbent Karen Handel, and beat her again to get reelected in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican-controlled redistricting process dropped some of its suburban areas and added more safely red ones further from Atlanta. It reaches north all the way to Amicalola, the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail in the foothills of the mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Or are they indeed safely red?<\/p>\n<p>Christian says around 75,000 people moved into the district during the pandemic. He notes that exurban Forsyth County north of Atlanta was the 7th fastest growing county in the nation last year and 3rd fastest growing in the previous 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf even half of them lean blue, it\u2019ll change the balance dramatically,\u201d Christian told The Epoch Times. \u201cWhether they bring their politics with them, that\u2019s the key. We\u2019re<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two candidates running for an open North Georgia Congressional seat each see an opportunity. Rich McCormick, the frontrunner in a district drawn for a Republican, sees it in his party\u2019s growing appeal to minorities and women, work he thinks he is cut out to do. Democratic nominee Bob Christian, facing an uphill battle in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}