CBS News projected on Nov. 3, 2026, that State Rep. Jasmine Clark will be the newest lawmaker to represent Georgia's 13th Congressional District in the U.S. House, a seat that has now moved from one temporary holder to the next while the district waits for its next full-term representative. Clark was projected to have defeated Republican Air Force veteran Jonathan Chavez.
The result gives Clark a fast path from the Georgia House of Representatives, where she has served since 2019, to Congress. It also extends a local political fight that has drawn attention well beyond metro Atlanta because the district stretches across portions of the region and was once represented for decades by the late David Scott.
Clark's win came after she cleared the Democratic primary with more than 56% of the vote, while Chavez advanced from the GOP side after running unopposed earlier in 2026. That left the general election as the decisive contest for a district created after the 2000 Census and long viewed as a solidly blue seat.
The wrinkle is that the seat is currently held by Everton Blair, who won an August special election to serve out the rest of the current term after beating Marcye Scott, the daughter of David Scott. Blair, the former chair of the Gwinnett County School Board, also made history as the first Black openly gay man to represent a Southern state in Congress.
That means Clark is not stepping into an open office so much as taking the next turn in a district already in motion. The projection settles who will represent Georgia's 13th Congressional District next, but it leaves the practical question that matters most now: when Clark will be sworn in and replace Blair in the U.S. House.
