‘Mobilized Against Me’: Dems Regret Congressional Nominee So Much They Move To Torpedo Her With Write In Campaign

The Democratic Party has launched a write-in campaign against one of its congressional candidates in Georgia after discovering she may have run to provide a more conservative alternative to the Republican incumbent.

Katy L. Stamper, a lawyer who won the Democratic nomination for Georgia’s 11th House District, describes herself as an “independent candidate running on the Democratic ticket,” and holds some conservative views such as believing transgenderism conflicts with reality and illegal immigrants should be deported, The New York Times reported Monday. Due to these non-progressive beliefs, the Democratic Party has launched a campaign encouraging voters to write in Tracy Verhoeven — a rental property owner who moved from California to Georgia three years ago — with Verhoeven’s campaign claiming the website domain name TheRealDemocrat.com.

“What she did was not right, and I want to rectify it,” Verhoeven told the NYT, with her website describing Stamper’s nomination as “The Stamper Fraud.”

I do not support .@KamalaHarris for the Democratic nomination for president, and if she is nominated, I will not vote for her. 🇺🇸 COUNTRY over party. 🇺🇸

She had to know President Biden was incompetent, yet she went along with the ruse, endangering America. The Democratic party…

— Katy Stamper for Ga.’s 11th Congressional District (@KatyLStamper) July 22, 2024

Meanwhile, Stamper claims she won the primary without misrepresenting her platform, focusing on issues like inflation and the need for the Democratic Party to adopt more conservative positions, according to the NYT.

“I wasn’t going to spell it all out…That would be the equivalent of a white paper,” Stamper told the NYT. “They mobilized against me because they dislike democracy, real democracy.”

Georgia uses an open primary system, meaning voters can vote in the primary of any party regardless of political affiliation, though they cannot vote in more than one party’s primary. Some Democrats believe Republicans took advantage of the system, voting on the Democratic ticket, but an analysis prepared by Antonio Daza, the 2022 Democratic nominee in Georgia’s 11th district, suggested Stamper may simply have won due to voters not knowing much about who was running, according to the NYT.

Republican incumbent Barry Loudermilk is expected to coast to victory in the congressional election, having won five times prior, sometimes with more than 60% of the vote, the NYT reported.

Stamper and Verhoeven did not immediately respond to requests for comment.