Georgia election coverage | Key races

Incumbent Rich McCormick, R and Democratic candidate Bob Christian are running against each other for Georgia’s redrawn 7th District seat. 

McCormick is a Marine veteran and ER physician. He endorsed Donald Trump for president and was elected in 2023 to represent Georgia’s 6th congressional district in Washington. McCormick is now vying to continue representing Georgia in the newly drawn 7th district. 

“Nothing drives business like energy. Energy, cheap energy, and the production of energy are what drive the economy. And when people don’t have that, it affects everybody,” McCormick previously said. “Just getting to your job, actually, not being able to pay for groceries or pay for medications, those sorts of things matter to people. That’s what we’re trying to make people aware, that we can produce this energy cheaper and more efficiently than other countries, it would drive the prices down.” 

Christian is a U.S. Army veteran and a small business owner who has worked in restaurant management. 

In 2022, Christian and McCormick met to debate at the Atlanta Press Club. During the debate, 11Alive reporter Joe Ripley asked Christian about how he would describe the state of the economy and, if elected, how he would work to fight historic record-high inflation. 

“Inflation is a huge problem in our country,” Christian previously said in part. “While we are seeing a record level of inflation in the country, we are also seeing a record level of profits among our corporate entities. And we have to start to address the problem in a multitude of different ways– shortening our supply chains because Georgia produces over five billion eggs a year, so we should be able to very quickly bring down those costs and talk to our corporate entities about the prices that they set.”