Lucy McBath
Lucy McBath plans to run for a new safely blue seat in the 7th District against Carolyn Bourdeaux after the GOP made McBath's district unwinnable.
National Rifle Association head Carolyn Meadows made racist and sexist remarks about McBath, a black lawmaker whose son was shot dead in 2012.
“People continue to die every single day," said Rep. Lucy McBath. "That is a public health crisis."
"Today comes just two months before I will fight for my son’s legacy in Congress - but it does not make the pain any less," the newly elected congresswoman said.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
McBath, a Democrat, defeated Republican incumbent Karen Handel, who famously beat Ossoff in last year’s special election.
McBath defeated GOP incumbent Karen Handel, who famously beat Democrat Jon Ossoff in last year’s special election.
McBath, whose son was shot dead in 2012, is running for Congress in Georgia’s 6th ― a district that may be a bellwether of a changing state.
McBath, whose son was shot dead in 2012, will face GOP Rep. Karen Handel in November.
McBath, whose son was shot dead in 2012, will be facing businessman Kevin Abel in a Democratic primary runoff on July 24.
"I can’t continue to keep looking in the eyes of all the mothers that I meet [with] no answers on the murders of their children."