The Blowout House Race That Says Everything You Need to Know About the Next Congress

1. Georgia’s 14th District

Congress will soon #savethechildren.

Oh, reader, there are so many critical races sitting on a knife’s edge across the House map that we could choose to lead with. We could also, however, lead with a race in a safely red—like, R+27 safe—district in northwestern Georgia. How safe is this race? It’s so safe that the (former) Democratic candidate to replace retiring Rep. Tom Graves has, uh, quit his campaign and fled the state because his wife is divorcing him and he’s moving back in with his family in Indiana. In other words, there’s not even some remote, fantasy West Wing–ass scenario in which the Republican candidate, QAnon devotee and Squad-threatener Marjorie Taylor Greene, can be stopped by an uprising of decency. She’s completely in the clear! This, really, is the story of the 2020 House cycle: By all accounts, the chamber is not up for grabs, but the composition of its membership is going to feel drastically different. It’s not so much that House Democrats and House Republicans will be representing different interests in the next Congress; they’ll be representing different dimensions, with wildly divergent understandings of what exists in the material world.

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