PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. — One of the most watched primary races in Georgia next month will be a congressional race in the south metro area. That’s where five Republicans are vying to replace U.S. Rep. Drew Ferguson, who is retiring from Congress.
Former state Rep. Philip Singleton quickly fell from grace when he was in the state legislature. As a Republican who had a falling out with the late powerful House speaker, Republican David Ralston, Singleton got shown the door when Republican leaders redrew his district.
"He didn’t like me very much. And I was going to fight for the people who elected me and do the things I thought was right," Singleton said Thursday.
Singleton wears it as a badge of honor as one of five Republicans vying for congress in a district that stretches from metro Atlanta southwest to the Alabama line.
Also, vying for the seat, Jim Bennett is an ex-cop and Republican activist.
And three of the remaining five are former state lawmakers- Singleton, former state senator Mike Crane, and former state senate Republican leader Mike Dugan.
Dugan, a military and business veteran, told us in March he views the race as a job interview.
"Can this person get stuff done?" Dugan said. "At every level that (I've) participated in, the answer to that is yes. And that should be the deciding factor."
Dugan helped write new Georgia election laws after many Republicans complained, without credible evidence, that Donald Trump had won the 2020 election.
Almost nobody outside of politics had heard of Brian Jack until earlier this month when Donald Trump exited a plane in Atlanta and introduced Jack as his candidate for Congress in Georgia’s third congressional district.
"He will be fantastic," Trump said.
Jack was a White House aide who spent most of the last decade working for Trump but grew up in the Peachtree City area.
"I want to do for them what I did for President Trump – helping them secure the border, helping them unleash our economy," Jack said.
Jack's opponents say he’s not yet well known here, but he is raising plenty of money, with Trump’s help, to change that.
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