Lucy McBath

McBath had been discussed as a possible candidate in the 2020 Georgia Senate special election. According to The Hill, McBath was considered "one of the top potential contenders" among Democrats for the seat. However, she declined to run for that office, saying she preferred to continue focusing on her work in the House.

McBath raised $620,000 in the fourth quarter of 2019. As of the end of 2019, McBath has $1.3 million cash on hand for her reelection bid. 93% of her contributions came from small-dollar donors.

In October 2019, McBath voted in favor of launching an impeachment inquiry into Trump. She sits on the House Judiciary Committee, which has been tasked with handling some impeachment-related business. During a town hall event, she said she had felt "furious" about "the lack of accountability" from the Trump administration, due to its lack of responsiveness to Congressional subpoenas. At the same event, she also noted "I don't like having to [participate in the impeachment process]. ... I don't want to have to say this about our President of the United States and the White House."

On December 13, 2019, McBath voted in favor of articles of impeachment against President Trump on the House Judiciary Committee.

After initially planning to run for the Georgia House of Representatives against incumbent Republican Sam Teasley in the 2018 elections, she decided after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting to instead challenge Karen Handel, the incumbent Republican in the United States House of Representatives representing Georgia's 6th congressional district .

During the 2018 election, McBath vowed to respect Second Amendment rights. She also promised to push for "implementing background checks for all firearm purchases; raising the minimum age to purchase a gun to 21 years of age; working to defeat conceal carry reciprocity measures; and introducing legislation to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers and other criminals.”

McBath has stated she is critical of some of the 2017 Republican tax cuts, but she would like to make the temporary middle-class tax cuts permanent.

McBath campaigned actively for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election and spoke on her behalf at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

Although the 6th has historically tilted Republican, Handel was thought to be vulnerable. Donald Trump barely carried the district in 2016. Also, Handel won a hotly contested special election in 2017 to Jon Ossoff that remains the most expensive U.S. House race in American history.

McBath appeared in a 2015 documentary film, 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets, that explored her son's shooting. McBath also appeared in the 2015 documentary film The Armor of Light, in which Rob Schenck, a pro-life Evangelical minister, discusses gun violence in America; The Armor of Light won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary.

In 2012, McBath's 17-year-old son, Jordan Davis, was shot and killed following an argument at a gas station in Florida about loud music. The shooting and its aftermath received national attention, and prompted discussion about controversial self-defense laws, commonly known as stand-your-ground laws.

McBath faced Handel in the general election in November and declared victory with 159,268 votes, surpassing Handel's 156,396 with 100% of precincts reporting. She became the first Democrat to represent this district since it moved to Atlanta's northern suburbs in 1993. Indeed, she was the first Democrat to even garner 40 percent of the vote in a general election for the district since Gingrich left office in 1999. Her victory has been described as "the biggest Georgia Democratic upset of the 2018 midterms."

She had a son who died in 1993. Her other son, Jordan, was murdered in 2012. McBath is deeply religious and named him after the River Jordan in the Bible.

McBath attended Virginia State University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science in 1982. After college, McBath worked as an intern for Douglas Wilder. In the 1990s, she became a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines and relocated to Atlanta, where Delta is headquartered. She worked for Delta as a flight attendant for 30 years.

Lucia Kay McBath (née Holman; born June 1, 1960) is an American gun control advocate and politician who is a member of the United States House of Representatives from Georgia's 6th congressional district. Her son, Jordan Davis, was murdered in November 2012. The district, formerly represented by House Speaker Newt Gingrich, includes many of Atlanta's affluent northern suburbs, such as Alpharetta, Roswell, Johns Creek, Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Brookhaven, and parts of Tucker and Marietta. A member of the Democratic Party, McBath defeated Republican incumbent Karen Handel in the November 2018 election.

McBath was born in Joliet, Illinois, on June 1, 1960. Her father, Lucien Holman, was a dentist who owned The Black Voice, an African-American newspaper, and served as president of the NAACP's Illinois chapter. Her mother, Wilma, worked as a nurse. Lucy has a sister, Lori.