Article 65Q7D The ‘armed and gay’ Senate hopeful who helped force Georgia’s runoff

The ‘armed and gay’ Senate hopeful who helped force Georgia’s runoff

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Andrew Lawrence in Atlanta
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Libertarian Chase Oliver, 37, managed 81,000 votes despite raising just $8,000

The morning after the midterms, Chase Oliver was back at work. That's what most other Georgians have to do after an election," he tells the Guardian. I have a job and have to pay rent and the bills."

Oliver, 37, has two jobs, actually - one as a sales account executive for a financial services company and another as an HR rep for a securities firm. And as he toggled between email replies and Zoom interviews from his north-east Atlanta home, with three cats and a dog, Delilah, underfoot, you'd never suspect this natty, young Georgian had thrown a spanner into the cogs of American power. You are possibly the most hated man in America right now," read one post to his Facebook page.

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