ATLANTA - U.S. Rep. Karen Handel (R-6), who has been in office less than a year after winning the nation's most expensive congressional election in history, will face another battle this fall from one of four Democrats, all of whom qualified this week.
Kevin Abel, Bobby Kaple, Lucy McBath and Steven Knight Griffin are all running for their party's nomination. In July 2017, Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in a race that drew national political attention and headlines as Democrats hoped to flip the 6th from red to blue.
In other congressional qualifying news:
► In metro Atlanta's 4th congressional district, incumbent Democrat Hank Johnson drew primary opposition from Juan Parks, while two Republicans are hoping to unseat Johnson: Joe Profit and Melanie Williams.
► U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-5) is Georgia's only congressional incumbent who is running unopposed.
► This year’s most crowded congressional race is where U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall (R-7) is facing eight challengers from his Gwinnett and Forsyth county district, including from Shane Hazel from within his own party. Six Democrats are running as well: Carolyn Bourdeaux, David Kim, Ethan Pham, Kathleen Allen, Melissa Davis and Steve Reilly.
► U.S. Rep. Jody Hice (R-10) made headlines recently when Facebook announced it was locating its new data center in his district, Social Circle, to be exact. That didn’t stop Hice from drawing two challengers from within his own party – Bradley Griffin and Joe Hunt – along with three Democrats: Chalis Montgomery, Richard Dien Winfield and Tabitha Johnson-Green.
