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JI7

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Wed Jul 25, 2018, 07:24 AM Jul 2018

Gun control activist Lucy McBath wins Democratic nomination in Georgia House race

i hope she wins. Karen Handel sucks .

<Gun control activist Lucy McBath, whose son was shot and killed in 2012, will win the Democratic nomination in Georgia's 6th Congressional District, CNN projects.

McBath, who defeated businessman Kevin Abel in a runoff election, will now face Republican Rep. Karen Handel in November in a race that could show whether gun control is an effective issue for Democrats in wealthy suburban districts. The district hasn't elected a Democratic US representative since the 1970s.

McBath became a prominent spokeswoman for the gun control movement after her 17-year-old son Jordan Davis was shot and killed by a white man in 2012 after a dispute over loud music. She testified before Congress on the issue and also campaigned with Hillary Clinton in 2016 as part of the "Mothers of the Movement" — a group of women who lost children to police or gun violence.

McBath told CNN before the runoff that she was inspired to jump into the Georgia congressional race by the activism of the students who survived the shooting in Parkland, Florida. >

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/24/politics/lucy-mcbath-georgia-runoff/index.html

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