Atlanta – Georgia, reporter Lucy McBat on Monday, announced that in 2026 he suspended his governor exploration offer, throwing uncertainty into the democratic area.
McBat can still run for governor in the same year, spokesman Jake Orvis said, but she must focus on her husband’s health at the moment after complications from a recent cancer surgery.
The four-time member of the Congress, best known as a defender of weapons control, had filed documents on March 5 to raise money for a governor.
McBat stays in the congress, Orvis said
Republican governor Brian Camp is completing his second term and cannot start again. The Republican Prosecutor General Chris Carr has already run for governor in 2026, and Lieutenant Burt Jones is expected to take place.
Other Democrats investigating running include former Atlanta mayor, Cisha Lance Bunds, state senator Jason Estans and former CEO of Dekalb County Michael Thurmond. Democrat Stacey Abrams, who escaped and lost to Camp in 2018 and 2022, did not close the door for a third run.
For the first time, McBat won elections in the 2018 Congress, cursing US Republican Representative Karen Handel to capture a place in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, once held by Newt Gingrich. When the Republicans diverted the constituencies after the 2020 census, McBat jumped into a primary race against his colleague Carolyn Bordeaux, defeating her and winning elections. Then, after the court ordered another circle of redistribution after finding that Afro -American votes were diluted, McBat moved to the regional Republicans attracted to the west side of Atlanta.
These moves mean that McBath was a much larger number of voters than the typical Congress member, which could make her a stronger candidate for the state.
McBat, like Abrams, would bid on the first black female governor of the US State.
The 64-year-old McBat rose to the weapon defender as her 17-year-old son Jordan Davis was shot and killed in 2012 by a white man who was angry with the strong music that the black teenager and his friends were at a gas station in Jacksonville, Florida. McBat, a former flight attendant, had a political career strongly supported by billionaire and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
She announced her support for a 2022 law, which strengthens checks for the youngest weapons buyers, protects firearms from more domestic violence offenders, and helps countries adopt the Red Flag laws, facilitating the authorities to take weapons from people considered dangerous.
McBat led a group of survivors and members of the family of victims of arms violence who spoke in a slot for the first time of the democratic National Convention in 2024.
