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His killer, Michael Dunn, invoked Florida\u2019s stand-your-ground law in defense during trial. Devastated, McBath worked to keep the media from tarnishing her extraordinary son the way so many other young black victims have been diminished in death. After a mistrial, Dunn was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. McBath has been organizing, in some fashion, to be there for \u201cthese children\u201d\u2014from Jordan, to the first-graders of Newtown, to the Parkland survivors\u2014ever since.\n\u003Cp\u003EMcBath helped plan the March for Our Lives last month and organized a prayer vigil at Washington\u2019s National Cathedral the night before. Sometime during that whirlwind, she developed a new plan: She would run for the House of Representatives in Georgia\u2019s sixth district against first-term GOP Representative Karen Handel. Lucy McBath decided to move from a small state House race where she\u2019d already raised more than $100,000 and was given a decent chance to win, to contest a US House seat that was the most expensive in history last year, when newcomer Jon Ossoff tried to become the first Democrat to represent the district in 40 years and narrowly lost in a special election.\n\u003Cp\u003EHandel is sitting on almost $1 million, and two of McBath\u2019s three male Democratic rivals have written their campaigns big checks. McBath, by contrast, had to return all the money she\u2019d raised for the state House seat and start over. She is also starting late; the primary is May 22. Two of her primary opponents have gained some traction in the activist community: Former local CBS news anchor Bobby Kaple is running on \u201caffordable, accessible health care,\u201d while Kevin Abel, a businessman and a South African immigrant who is Jewish, has attacked Donald Trump\u2019s treatment of DACA kids and other immigrants. Having raised less than $50,000 so far, McBath is an underdog in every sense of the word, but she is also Lucy McBath, a nationally known activist and the only woman in a Democratic primary that will be decided by women. In the sixth district, roughly 60 percent of likely Democratic voters are women, and a quarter are people of color. McBath sees a path to victory, despite her late start.\n\u003Cp\u003EBut money isn\u2019t McBath\u2019s only obstacle. There are Democrats in her district who are upset that she walked away from her state House race, leaving the party scrambling to find a candidate. 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The sixth is so moving forward, and they have all been diligently building. It\u2019s amazing how motivated and structured they have become. The Democratic primary voters will be 60 percent women, 24 percent minorities, and I fit both demographics. The reality that I have lived is that I can speak to my neighbors about being a single mom, I can speak about women\u2019s reproductive health, about health care\u2026\n\u003Cp style=\u0022margin-top: 37px;\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color: #c0c0c0;\u0022\u003EJW:\u003C\/span\u003E And about guns.\u003C\/strong\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cspan style=\u0022color: #ff0000;\u0022\u003ELM:\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E You know when Trump had all those Congress members in to talk about guns, after Parkland? I was pissed off by that! They were making nice with him. Dianne Feinstein, I love her, but she was just sitting there smiling, they weren\u2019t asking the right questions. 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