Karen Handel Launches Comeback Bid In 6th District

ATLANTA -- Former metro Atlanta congresswoman Karen Handel said she is running for her old seat in Congress on Monday. Handel said she is running to reclaim Georgia's 6th congressional district, a seat she lost last fall to Democrat Lucy McBath in one of the nation's biggest midterm upsets. Handel won the seat in 2015 in a special election that became the nation's most expensive Congressional election in history, defeating Democrat Jon Ossoff, only to lose the seat to McBath just over a year later.

The seat had become vacant when Tom Price joined President Donald Trump's cabinet as secretary of health and human services. Price later resigned the office, becoming the first of several Trump cabinet members to depart.

Handel is the latest Republican to challenge McBath, whose seat has been targeted by the National Republican Congressional Committee as one of 55 Democrat-held House seats to flip next year.

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 30: Rep.-elect Lucy McBath (D-GA) celebrates after drawing the number 18 in the lottery draw for congressional offices November 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

McBath has already picked up one challenger: one GOP challenger: state Sen. Brandon Beach of Alpharetta, who has served District 21 in the General Assembly since 2013. Beach's district includes Alpharetta, Milton and the eastern half of Cherokee County.

Georgia's 6th district includes portions of east Cobb, north Fulton and north DeKalb counties as well as the cities of Roswell, Johns Creek, Tucker, Alpharetta, Milton, Mountain Park, Brookhaven, Sandy Springs, Doraville and Dunwoody.

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