Kevin Van Ausdal, the Democratic primary winner in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District who was set to face Marjorie Taylor Greene in November, has dropped out of the race In a statement emailed out on Friday, Van Ausdal said he was leaving the race for “personal and family reasons.” Van Ausdal continued, “Although all the details will remain my family’s alone, please understand this was not an easy decision. We are real people managing hard choices,” he added.

To make things even more interesting, the current Congressman Tom Graves, announced on Friday evening that he was leaving Congress before his term is finished.  Graves said in an e-mailed statement to WZQZ News, “With the House planning to wrap up the People’s business and the final report from the Modernization Committee set to be filed in the next few weeks, I intend to step down from Congress and begin the next chapter of life in October. Congress is going into a long recess and my committee work will be complete. In short, my work will be done. I’m announcing this today to avoid surprises, and it just doesn’t seem right to kill time on the taxpayer dime.”

WZQZ News spoke with Tim Shiflett, the Democratic Party’s 14th Congressional District Chair on Saturday. Shiflett said that the party is still waiting to hear back from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, but it appears at this time that the window to name a new candidate to face-off against Greene has passed.  An official ruling from the Secretary of State on the matter has not yet been made public.