Georgia's whole coastline, from Savannah on the South Carolina border down to St. Mary's on St. Mary's River that separates Georgia and Florida, is part of the 1st congressional district, basically bright blue Chatham (Savannah) and 17 smaller mostly, rural counties-- all red except for Liberty County near Savannah. Last cycle progressive Democrat Lisa Ring challenged conservative Trumpist Earl "Buddy" Carter.
Currently, Buddy Carter is in a fierce competition with Louie Gohmert to be recognized as the most clueless member of Congress. Yesterday he told NPR has "every State of the Union that the president has given has gotten better and better" and went on about how he's become one of the great presidents of all times. The "president" has given two of those addresses, but perhaps Carter has dreamed of being at dozens of them.
Yesterday, Houston cancer specialist and brand new TX-07 congressional candidate, Jason Westin, led a deep dive into Republican health care "policy" for us. Even as we were posting it, the extremists inside the Republican House Conference-- the "Freedom Caucus-- was attacking the Ryan-Pence-Price TrumpCare proposal from a very different perspective.
