Ahead of the Nov. 5 general election, one race on the ballot is the U.S. House of Representatives for Georgia’s 9th Congressional district.
The race will see Republican Andrew Clyde, the incumbent who assumed office in 2021, running against Democrat Tambrei Cash.
The number one issue to Clyde is inflation.
“Inflation in the economy is the number one issue,” Clyde said on WDUN’s “The Martha Zoller Show.” “President Biden’s policies have caused 40-year high inflation.”
Cash is a mom and business owning Georgia native and also spoke on “The Martha Zoller Show.”
For her? The top priority is women’s rights.
“As a 51-year-old woman, I have fewer rights today than I had when I was born,” Cash said.
When asked about Clyde’s top issue of inflation, Cash said that the government has less control on prices than people realize.
“Yes, inflation is horrible,” Cash said. “We live in a capitalist society, we have large corporations who have admitted on record to price gouging us incessantly.”
Both candidates agreed that there is waste in the federal government.
“There’s a lot of waste in our federal government spending, and I think that everybody can agree on that,” Cash said.
Her solution?
“We also have to make the big corporations and the wealthiest of us pay their fair share,” she said.
Clyde’s solution is downsizing.
“When government gets big and bloated, you get more regulations, you get less liberty,” he said. “We have plans to bring us back to literally a balanced budget.”
As the incumbent, Clyde responded to what his biggest accomplishments have been in his four years in office.
“The last two years we’ve been in the majority, and I have had five bills passed the house,” Clyde said on WDUN’s “The Martha Zoller Show.”
One of those bills took down the revised criminal code act for Washington, D.C. The revised act was going to eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing for all violent crime in the city.
Georgia’s 9th Congressional district has undergone some changes since Clyde’s wins in 2020 and 2022.
In 2022, the 9th district spanned most of northeast Georgia including Hall County and northern Gwinnett County and went from Fannin and Gilmer counties down to Hart Counties.
Now, the district covers Jackson County but excludes Lumpkin, Franklin, and Hart counties. It has also gone further into Gwinnett County.
Both candidates were also asked why people should vote for them.
“I’ve done everything I said that I would do,” Clyde said. “I’m pro-life, they know I defend our Second Amendment, they know…I’m for all sources of energy.”
Cash said that people should vote for her because Clyde “hasn’t accomplished anything” and that she would bring women’s rights back.
“I want to bring back women’s rights first and foremost,” she said. “I think that our budget needs common sense … we need some tax reform.”
The website for Clyde’s campaign can be found here: https://clyde4congress.com
And Cash’s campaign site can be found here: https://cash4ga.com
