Two things are almost certain for Georgia's new 6th Congressional District: It will be represented by a Republican, and that Republican has pushed false claims about the 2020 election.
In a Sunday debate sponsored by the Atlanta Press Club, all nine candidates questioned Georgia's 2020 election results that saw former President Donald Trump narrowly lose his race but the GOP do well in other races up and down the ballot.
Nearly $1.8 million in personal money has been loaned to campaigns seeking to win the nomination in this district that runs from North Fulton up to Dawson County, led by financial frontrunners Rich McCormick and Jake Evans.
McCormick, who lost in the neighboring 7th District race in 2018, reiterated that he never conceded that election.
"No one was hurt by voter fraud more than myself," he said. "At the end of the night at the end of the election in 2020, I was told I won the election, that we were 5,000 votes up. And then we were eventually told we lost the election."
McCormick lost by more than 10,000 votes after all the votes were counted.
Evans, the former chair of the State Ethics Commission, repeated false claims about a so-called consent order in a lawsuit filed by the Democratic Party of Georgia over timely notice of absentee rejections and said he supports eliminating absentee drop boxes, roll back absentee ballot access, "immunity for lawyers," and require voter identification, which is already state law.
Evans and McCormick also faced the most...
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