Southwest Georgia’s 2nd Congressional District may be the only Deep South House race in which the two major party candidates are remotely competitive
Republican Chris West, center, shakes hands with a voter on Oct. 6, 2022 at a campaign fundraiser in Georgetown, Ga. West, a Thomasville developer, is challenging 30-year incumbent Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., in southwest Georgia's 2nd Congressional District. GEORGETOWN, Ga. — — In an uphill fight against a 30-year incumbent, Republican congressional candidate Chris West was scratching for votes in Georgia's second-smallest county on a recent October evening.
West and Bishop are rarities in the Deep South: candidates for a congressional race that is even marginally competitive.
The 2nd District's status is an outlier after a round of redistricting that reduced the number of competitive congressional seats nationwide. In Georgia, Republicans took two competitive districts in the northern Atlanta suburbs that Democrats had flipped in recent years and. That means that even if Bishop wins, Republicans are likely to hold a 9-5 edge in Georgia's congressional delegation, compared to an 8-6 edge now.
West, an Air Force veteran and lawyer with deep roots around Thomasville, won an upset GOP runoff victory against Jeremy Hunt, a Black military veteran and Yale University law student, byNow West is betting that people feel the impact of higher prices more acutely than they appreciate the achievements of a Democratic-controlled Congress.
“He was good for southwest Georgia for a while and the pecan growers, he tried to help us,” Collins said of Bishop."Now, he does whatever the Democratic Party tells him to do.”
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