Candidates vie for Georgia’s 10th District post

By Andrew Rice
The Center Square

Democrat and Republican candidates are clamoring to fill an open seat in Georgia’s 10th Congressional District.

The district, which stretches across central-east Georgia, is open because Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., is running for the U.S. Senate.

Lexy Doherty, a Democrat candidate in the district, told The Center Square she wants to flip the seat. Doherty ran against Collins in 2024, winning 63.4% of the vote.

Doherty said she hopes to capitalize on President Donald Trump’s waning popularity and the open seat to flip the district.

“We just kind of feel like we have the wind at our back,” Doherty said. “We were able to do a lot more and raise a lot more right off the bat.”

Doherty will face challengers for the Democratic nomination from Pamela Delancy and John Dority. They did not respond to an interview request from The Center Square.

Delancy told Ballotpedia that she will bring her experience with chronic disease to the forefront of her healthcare platform.

I will fight for accessible, affordable healthcare that works for every family,” Delancy wrote in Ballotpedia’s candidate connection survey.

Candidates vying for the Republican nomination are Jeff Baker, Houston Gaines and Ryan Millsap. The candidates did not respond to The Center Square’s request for an interview.

Gaines, a Georgia state representative, secured an endorsement from President Donald Trump.

“An Eighth-Generation Georgian, Houston has served as a State Representative since 2019, authoring more than 20 bills that have passed the Georgia Legislature, and championing our AMERICA FIRST Policies,” Trump wrote on social media.

Millsap is a film producer and Baker is a small business owner, according to their websites. Millsap said he supports a national voter ID law, similar to the SAVE America Act.

Millsap also supported a ban on congressional stock trading. Several pieces of legislation have been introduced to ban congressional stock trading, including one from Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga.

“Career politicians have used their positions to trade stocks and profit off information the American people don’t have,” Millsap wrote. “Public office is for service, not self-enrichment.”

Baker said he is taking an America First approach to the economy and jobs, saying granting amnesty to law-abiding migrants would “level the playing field.”

“Everyone pays taxes, everyone earns fair wages and American workers are no longer undercut,” Baker said on his website.