Georgia’s 13th Picks David Scott Successor as South Dakota Holds 1st Governor Runoff
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 28
Georgia’s 13th Picks David Scott Successor as South Dakota Holds 1st Governor Runoff
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 28
Summary
Tuesday’s special election in Georgia’s 13th District will effectively decide who fills Rep. David Scott’s seat through January, because Democrats already locked up the full-term ballot and dominate the heavily blue district.
Scott’s April death at 80 created the vacancy, and the short-term race has become a contest between his daughter seeking to continue his legacy and challengers who argued the 12-term lawmaker had grown ineffective.
South Dakota Republicans are also voting in the state’s first gubernatorial runoff, with Gov. Larry Rhoden forced into a second round after failing to win an outright majority in June.
Rhoden, who became governor after Kristi Noem joined Trump’s administration, is favored over bitcoin investor Toby Doeden in an establishment-versus-outsider fight centered on Sioux Falls and Pennington County.
The split-screen election day underscores how two safe seats can still produce high-stakes intraparty battles—Georgia because the district is safely Democratic, South Dakota because Republicans have not lost the governorship since the 1970s.