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Michael McCord is from Abbeville, South Carolina. He attended Laurens District 55 High School in Laurens, South Carolina. He lives in Savannah, Georgia. 

Michael is currently a senior manager at The Gatlic Group. Previously, he was a southeast regional account manager and a regional sales account manager at Bryte, and a business development manager at Workbox Staffing. 

Michael’s campaign for U.S. Representative in Georgia’s 1st Congressional District is his first run for public office.

Supports a federal ban on price gouging for essential goods during economic crises, citing corporate opportunism as a factor in rising costs for gas, groceries, and housing.

Supports a federal ban on price gouging for essential goods during economic crises.

Supports tax incentives for companies that manufacture in Georgia rather than overseas.

Fights for policies that cut red tape, expand access to capital for local entrepreneurs, protect pensions, and raise wages for families.

- Supports a federal ban on price gouging for essential goods during economic crises.
- Supports tax incentives for companies that manufacture in Georgia rather than overseas.
- Fights for policies that cut red tape, expand access to capital for local entrepreneurs, protect pensions, and raise wages for families.

Economy

As of March 11, 2026, Michael McCord’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Public Safety

For Candidate Michael McCord on Issue healthcare:  
Advocates for bringing funding back to Georgia to keep hospitals and emergency rooms open.

Advocates for bringing funding back to Georgia to keep hospitals and emergency rooms open.

Supports capping insulin at $35 for everyone and allowing Medicare to negotiate all prescription drug prices.

- Advocates for bringing funding back to Georgia to keep hospitals and emergency rooms open.
- Supports capping insulin at $35 for everyone and allowing Medicare to negotiate all prescription drug prices.

Healthcare

Education

Supports stronger levees and flood barriers.

Wants to introduce stronger levees and flood barriers.

For Candidate Michael McCord on Issue energy-and-environment: Supports fair access to FEMA for working-class families.

Supports fair access to FEMA for working-class families.

Supports an "all-of-the-above" energy strategy, utilizing natural gas, nuclear, solar, and emerging technologies to enhance energy independence and keep costs down for working families.

- Wants to introduce stronger levees and flood barriers.
- Supports fair access to FEMA for working-class families.
- Supports an "all-of-the-above" energy strategy, utilizing natural gas, nuclear, solar, and emerging technologies to enhance energy independence and keep costs down for working families.

Energy & the Environment

For Candidate Michael McCord on Issue Foreign Policy and Immigration: Advocates for automatic enrollment of VA benefits upon discharge, eliminating paperwork and ensuring veterans receive what they earned.

Advocates for automatic enrollment of VA benefits upon discharge, eliminating paperwork and ensuring veterans receive what they earned.

Supports expanding mental health vouchers for veterans to access private providers if VA wait times exceed 14 days.

- Advocates for automatic enrollment of VA benefits upon discharge, eliminating paperwork and ensuring veterans receive what they earned.
- Supports expanding mental health vouchers for veterans to access private providers if VA wait times exceed 14 days.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Supports banning individual stock trading for members of Congress and their immediate families.

- Supports banning individual stock trading for members of Congress and their immediate families.

Voting & Elections

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Michael McCord

Believes corporations in energy-intensive industries should help cover the true cost of power to prevent families and small businesses from bearing the financial burden.

Prioritizes investments in infrastructure, including rural broadband, safe roads, and modern ports.

Supports upgraded drainage and storm-water systems.

Seeks federal investment in energy and environmental initiatives.

For Candidate Michael McCord on Issue energy-and-environment: Supports wetland restoration and the use of natural storm buffers to enhance environmental resilience.

Supports wetland restoration and the use of natural storm buffers to enhance environmental resilience.

Wants to streamline the transition from active duty to civilian life.

- Wants to introduce stronger levees and flood barriers.
- Supports wetland restoration and the use of natural storm buffers to enhance environmental resilience.
- Supports fair access to FEMA for working-class families.
- Supports an "all-of-the-above" energy strategy, utilizing natural gas, nuclear, solar, and emerging technologies to enhance energy independence and keep costs down for working families.

- Your US Representative represents the interests of your district in the US House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. Georgia currently has 14 US Representatives.
- US Representatives can author, sponsor, debate, and vote on bills that become national law.
- Representatives may serve on congressional committees. Committees focus on certain policy areas, such as transportation, education, or labor. They may also run for higher positions within their party, such as the Speaker of the House or Majority/Minority Leader.
- Representatives are elected to two-year terms. To hold this office, a candidate must be a legal resident of Georgia and a US citizen for at least seven years before their election. US Representatives are paid a salary of $174,000/year.