GA-HD99: Georgia House candidates are competing for a diverse pool of voters in Gwinnett County

DULUTH — An older woman answered the door and asked why a campaign volunteer was standing on her front step.

“I’m volunteering for Michelle Kang, who’s running for the Georgia Statehouse here locally,” said Omar Cruz, as he spoke with the voter in House District 99, which runs from Duluth, Suwanee and Sugar Hill between Peachtree Industrial Boulevard and I-85.

“Could you give me more information about her?” the woman asked. “Yes,” he said and handed her a pamphlet with bullet points about Democratic candidate Kang’s legislative priorities, should she win the election against incumbent Republican state Rep. Matt Reeves.

The whole conversation was in Spanish.

A first-generation Korean American, Kang is taking a multilingual approach to reach voters as this section of Gwinnett County has become increasingly ethnically diverse and more politically competitive, with voters open to candidates in both parties.

In 2020, the district was located further south near Lilburn, an area so Democratic that Republicans didn’t even run a candidate against Democrat Marvin Lim, who now represents House District 98.



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