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JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 05:52 PM Feb 2021

Democrat launches campaign to unseat Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Washington(CNN)Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has her first public Democratic challenger after Holly McCormack announced her plans this week to challenge the conspiracy theorist for her seat in the heavily GOP district in Georgia.

Several other Democrats have filed to run in 2022, Federal Election Commission records show, but McCormack, a 36-year-old insurance agent, is the first known candidate to publicly launch a campaign, said Maggie Chambers, the Georgia Democratic Party's communications director.

"The official candidate qualifying period is not until early 2022. McCormack's candidacy is the only one we know of to have launched publicly, but other candidates have filed with the FEC," Chambers told CNN.

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McCormack says she's running to set a better example.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/02/26/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-holly-mccormack/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

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Democrat launches campaign to unseat Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Original Post) JonLP24 Feb 2021 OP
GA-14 is a R+27 district. nycbos Feb 2021 #1
repub being a total nutter elevates winability at least a bit one would think msongs Feb 2021 #2
No not at all. nycbos Feb 2021 #3
True. She won 74-24 percent last year. jimfields33 Feb 2021 #4

nycbos

(6,034 posts)
1. GA-14 is a R+27 district.
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 05:54 PM
Feb 2021

Not of dime of money should be wasted. I am all for letting no seat uncontested but there are seats that aren't winnable.

Money should go to our potentially vulnerable incumbents, or to win winnable Republican held seats.

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