In Georgia, seven incumbents and two other Republicans running for the House in 2024 have falsely claimed that Trump won the 2020 presidential election, spread lies or conspiracies about its legitimacy, refused to certify the results, or took steps to undermine the integrity of that or subsequent elections. These include:
- Earl “Buddy” Carter | House (GA–1)
Representative Buddy Carter has served in the House since 2015 and ran unopposed in 2022 but had Trump’s endorsement. After the 2020 election, he refused to certify the results, voted against impeaching Trump for his role in instigating the attack on the Capitol, and voted against establishing a House committee to investigate the insurrection. Carter also routinely used his social media accounts to spread election conspiracies and other misinformation in the aftermath of the election. Both The Washington Post and Insurrection Index identify him as an election denier, though 538 lists his ultimate response to the outcome of the 2020 election as “accepted with reservations.” - Brian Jack | House (GA–3)
Longtime Trump aide Brian Jack won the GOP primary with his former boss’ seal of approval as “a man of Loyalty, Honesty, and Integrity.” Jack worked for Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, served as White House director of political affairs during his administration, and has been his “de facto liaison with Capitol Hill” ever since. The House Select Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol subpoenaed him after he reached out to several congressmen to ask them to speak at the rally at the Ellipse on January 6. While campaigning in the primary, Jack joined fellow candidates in claiming that Trump won Georgia in 2020 despite lacking any evidence to back that hoax. Given his very red district, he is expected to win the House seat in November. - John “Bongo” Salvesen | House (GA–5)
Bongo Salvesen is an election denier whose campaign site includes a page on “election interference.” A link to an external website claims to provide “evidence” for “why Georgia should not have certified the November 3, 2020 election.” Salvesen ran unopposed in the GOP primary and is running against incumbent Representative Nikema Williams, who chairs the Georgia Democratic Party. - Rich McCormick | House (GA–7)
Representative Rich McCormick is running for his second term, but this time in Georgia’s newly drawn 7th Congressional District, where he ran unopposed in the GOP primary. As an ER doctor and Marine veteran, he says on his website that he “has never been afraid of a fight” and is ready to take on “the radical left” and “stop socialism” in his quest to “Revive Freedom and Save America!” McCormick is an election denier who claimed during a 2022 campaign debate that he didn’t actually lose his own race in 2020 and therefore would not concede. “No one was hurt by voter fraud more than myself,” he said, complaining that even though he was up by 5,000 votes shortly after the polls closed, he was subsequently “told” he lost. - Andrew Clyde | House (GA–9)
Representative Andrew Clyde has served in the House since 2021 and was reelected in 2022 with Trump’s endorsement. He helped spread the Big Lie both before and after the 2020 presidential election and also objected to certifying the results, voted against impeaching Trump for inciting the attack on the Capitol, and voted against establishing a House committee to investigate the insurrection. In June 2023, Clyde enthusiastically endorsed Trump’s bid to regain the White House in 2024. - Mike Collins | House (GA–10)
Now running for his second term in Congress, Representative Mike Collins is fully in sync with Trump as an election denier. In a January 2022 post on Twitter/X, he wrote that “Joe Biden and the Democrats stole the 2020 election” and “Donald Trump won Georgia.” The congressman’s campaign site includes a section on “safeguarding election integrity” where he vows to oppose “Democrats in Congress and leftwing activists…[who] are determined to enact a federal takeover of state elections.” In June 2023, Collins leapt to the front of the pack to endorse Trump’s bid for reelection in 2024. - Barry Loudermilk | House (GA–11)
Representative Barry Loudermilk has served in the House since 2015 and ran unopposed in 2022 but had Trump’s endorsement. Both before and after the 2020 presidential election, he helped spread the Big Lie and amplified conspiracy theories about election fraud in Georgia. Loudermilk also objected to certifying the election results and voted against both impeaching Trump for inciting the attack on the Capitol and establishing a House committee to investigate the insurrection. Once that committee was established nonetheless, he refused to cooperate and answer questions about the suspicious tour of the Capitol he led a day before rioters broke in. In May 2024, Loudermilk used his position as chair of the House Administration subcommittee on oversight to intimidate former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson—who may be called on to testify against Trump in the Department of Justice J6 case against him—by requesting that she turn over all communications to date with former Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) and a number of top officials from the Trump administration. - Rick Allen | House (GA–12)
Representative Rick Allen has served in the House since 2015 and ran unopposed in 2022 but had Trump’s endorsement. Immediately after the 2020 presidential election, he made a variety of unfounded allegations about irregularities and fraud, including claims that “glitches” had been found in Dominion voting machines and absentee ballot counting had been rushed. He also joined fellow House Republicans in sending letters to Attorney General Bill Barr on November 6 and December 1 urging the Justice Department to investigate accusations of fraud in the 2020 election and later tweeted his support for a DOJ investigation. In December 2020, Allen signed an amicus brief in a lawsuit filed by the state of Texas urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the results of the presidential election in four swing states. In January 2021, he objected to certifying the election results and voted against both impeaching Trump for inciting the attack on the Capitol and establishing a House committee to investigate the insurrection. - Marjorie Taylor Greene | House (GA–14)
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is a far-right firebrand who has served in the House since 2020 and prides herself on being an agent of chaos in Congress. An outspoken Trump devotee, she wholeheartedly endorsed the former president in November 2022—the same day he announced his run for reelection. Both before and after the 2020 presidential election, Greene helped spread the Big Lie and amplify conspiracy theories about election fraud in Georgia. In January 2021, she objected to certifying the election results and voted against both impeaching Trump for inciting the attack on the Capitol and establishing a House committee to investigate the insurrection. Greene continues to be one of Trump’s most vociferous allies in Congress but in spring 2024 her attempt to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R–LA) failed miserably and she caught criticism from within the party for being too disruptive.