Philip M. Bailey

I think he was rewarded with that overwhelmingly.

Again, Colton Moore, the former state legislator from Georgia who came in really third overall in the race, but second in terms of Republican vote getters.

He tried his best to appeal to that Donald Trump sentiment to Trump supporters.

It just wasn't enough when you don't have the actual seal of approval from the president.

Absolutely not.

He has no chance.

That's important to pretty much every expert you talk to when you look at how overwhelmingly pro-Trump Georgia's 14th congressional district is.

And just to paint the geographic picture for folks, it's basically the area north of Atlanta, the Atlanta northern suburbs, all the way to the Appalachian Mountains region connecting to the Tennessee border.

So it's a red rock conservative district.

I think one of the most conservative districts when you look at the 2024 results, Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris in that district by about 40 points.

So it's one of the most MAGA-aligned, MAGA-coded districts in the country.

At the same time, when you look at Sean Harris' performance, getting about 40% of that vote, that's much better than he did when he ran against Marjorie Taylor Greene previously.

So it fits with Democrats overperforming what's expected to be a blue wave in the midterms.

Still, when you take all the Republican votes and add them together, they far outpace.

They still are enough to beat Sean Harris in this runoff on April 7th.

At the same time, what's interesting to me, Dana, is that Sean Harris has invited Pete Buttigieg, former transportation secretary under Joe Biden, the mayor of Indiana, sort of caught fire in 2020 with younger Democratic voters.

He's going to be in the district.

Right.

This weekend, stumping for Sean Harris.

He endorsed Harris already.