A. Wayne Johnson will face insurrectionist opponent in GA-2 Repub runoff

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With 88 percent of the votes in, it appears that Georgia businessman Dr. A. Wayne Johnson, former Trump administration official in the Dept. of Education, will face January 6th insurrectionist Chuck Hand in a runoff election for the Republican slot in the Georgia District 2 congressional race. The winner will face long-time Democratic incumbent Sanford Bishop, who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary.

Primary results: https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/georgia/?r=11984

For reference:

A Georgian charged in Jan. 6 attack wants to return to US Capitol — as member of Congress
‘It hasn’t come up negatively on the trail at all,’ says Chuck Hand, who is competing to challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop in the southwest Georgia U.S. House district.

Some candidates might run away from their role in the violent pro-Donald Trump mob that engulfed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Chuck Hand is embracing it.

The Republican contender for a rural Georgia U.S. House seat refers to his arrest as a “nonviolent protest participation” on his campaign website. He posted on social media that he traveled to Washington that day to target the nation’s “biggest national security threat.”

And when his guilty plea and prison sentence came up during a recent debate with a trio of Republican rivals, Hand hardly blinked.

“My campaign isn’t based on Jan. 6. The only reason Jan. 6 ever comes up in the campaign is so that you three cannot throw it in my face,” he said to his opponents at the Atlanta Press Club showdown, maintaining that it won’t matter to voters.

- AJC, May 4, 2024: https://www.ajc.com/politics/a-georgian-charged-in-jan-6-attack-wants-to-return-to-us-capitol-as-member-of-congress/WG2HOZDBZNAUJMOVDKBDJKXQ6I/
Non-paywall link: https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/ujaTxP

For more on this charmer, see: https://seditiontracker.com/suspects/charles-hand.html

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1. This is sickening and frightening.

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2. Fortunately GA-2 is a strongly Dem district

in southwest Georgia, so the incumbent Bishop should handily defeat any Republican. But yes, it certainly is alarming for a Jan. 6 insurrectionist — even one who professed to be “remorseful” after the fact — to have even a snowball’s chance in hell of winning this Congressional seat.