Rich McCormick is a sitting Republican congressman from Georgia's 7th district, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, and, according to the public chatter on social media this week, a man who apparently rediscovered his own district just in time for primary season. His challenger's supporters are circulating the claim that McCormick went dark on GA-07 for the better part of a year before surfacing days before the primary vote. The June 16 runoff is now the story. But while the constituent-service debate plays out on Bluesky, McCormick's financial disclosure record has been doing its own thing: 13 trades in 90 days, two companies that fall squarely inside his committee jurisdictions, and an overall alpha record of 26 wins out of 39 scored trades. The filings are public. The calendar is public. The rest is yours.
The Runoff He Didn't See Coming (Or Did He)
The June 16 Georgia runoff is the proximate reason McCormick is surfacing in conversations right now. His opponent, Case Norton, has leaned hard into a simple narrative: McCormick was not there. The social media pushback is blunt and repetitive in the way only local-race Twitter ever is. The argument is that a congressman who ghosts a district for a year and then appears days before a primary vote is not a congressman who is especially worried about the voters in that district.
McCormick has not responded to that framing in any way captured in the public record available here. What the public record does show is that while the political situation in GA-07 was developing, he was trading.
Thirteen disclosed trades between March 19 and April 17, 2026. One cluster and one outlier. Most of them on a single day.
March 19: The Day He Rearranged the Portfolio
On March 19, 2026, McCormick filed 11 separate transactions. Seven purchases, four sales. All in the ,000-to-5,000 range. Per the disclosure record on Blind Trust, the buys that day included Automatic Data Processing, BlackRock, Home Depot, Microsoft, UnitedHealth Group, and the Vanguard Mega Cap Growth ETF. The sales included Analog Devices, Automatic Data Processing (same stock, sold and bought on the same day), Johnson & Johnson, L3Harris Technologies, and NextEra Energy.
The ADP same-day buy-sell is the kind of thing that makes a forensic accountant's eyebrow twitch. Sell ADP, buy ADP. One entry each direction on the same date. The most charitable reading is a rebalancing between accounts. The filing doesn't elaborate, and members are not required to elaborate.
Members are required to disclose. They are not required to divest, recuse, abstain, blush, or look up from their phones.
The Two That Actually Have a Committee Angle
McCormick sits on the House Committee on Armed Services, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Those last two matter here.
The Science, Space, and Technology Committee has jurisdiction over technology policy. The Armed Services and Oversight committees have reach into federal contracting, cybersecurity, and the government's technology procurement. So when McCormick purchased Microsoft on March 19, 2026, that trade lands inside committee territory. It's the largest federal cloud contractor in the country, a company whose government business runs directly through the kinds of decisions McCormick's committees touch.
The 30-day alpha on that Microsoft purchase: 1.4 percentage points above the S&P 500. Not a blowout. But positive, and in the right direction.
He also holds Apple, purchased November 5, 2025, with a 4.4-point alpha over 30 days. Same committee overlap: Science, Space, and Technology. And he bought NextEra Energy on November 5 before selling it on March 19. The November buy posted a 4.8-point alpha. The March sale is on the books. The committee overlap there sits under Energy jurisdiction, which McCormick's Science and Technology committee touches through its space and technology policy work.
Pause for a second: none of these trades are flagged as violations. There are no vote-trade overlap events in this data. The overlap is committee jurisdiction plus disclosed holding, full stop. The interpretation of what that means is the reader's to make.
The Alpha Record, Honestly
26 wins out of 39 scored trades. Mean 30-day alpha of 2.1 percentage points. That's the full sample, not a highlight reel.
The wins exist. But so do the losses. His worst three scored trades are the sale of Automatic Data Processing on March 19 (minus 11.5 points of alpha over 30 days), the sale of American Tower on April 17 (minus 10.5), and the sale of L3Harris on March 19 (minus 9.5). All three were sales, and all three left money on the table in the 30 days that followed. He sold L3Harris, a major defense contractor, on March 19. L3Harris is exactly the kind of defense sector name you'd expect someone on the Armed Services Committee to have opinions about. He sold it. It went up. It's just a bad trade.
His best three are an Analog Devices purchase from November 2025 that beat the market by 17 points, a Medtronic purchase that beat by 15.9, and a Johnson & Johnson purchase that beat by 12. He later sold J&J on March 19, 2026. The sale is not yet scored in the alpha data here, so we don't know how that exit looked.
The math across the full record: 67 percent positive, 2.1 mean alpha. Better than coin-flip. Not Warren Buffett. The full record is public.
The Votes on May 20 and 21
McCormick voted yes on the American Access to Banking Act and the Community Bank Deposit Access Act on May 20, 2026. Both passed. Both carry high market relevance scores. Neither sits inside McCormick's committee jurisdiction. He's not on Financial Services. He's on Armed Services, Oversight, and Science. A floor vote on a banking bill is just a floor vote, not an oversight angle, and we're treating it as such.
His portfolio does not include obvious banking-sector names in the most recent 90-day window. The BlackRock purchase on March 19 is the closest adjacency. BlackRock is an asset manager, not a bank. The Venn diagram between a community-bank deposit bill and BlackRock's core business has some overlap but it's not a direct line.
He also voted yes on two veterans benefits bills on May 21. Those land closer to his Armed Services committee remit. His disclosed trades don't show any obvious veterans-care sector positioning in the 90-day window.
The Bigger Picture on McCormick's Filing Pattern
Thirteen trades in 90 days is not unusual for a member who is actively managing a brokerage account. What's slightly unusual is the single-day burst: 11 of 13 trades on March 19 alone. That's a portfolio rebalancing event, not a series of discrete investment decisions spread over weeks. Something prompted a wholesale review on that date.
What was happening on or around March 19, 2026? The disclosure record doesn't say. Members don't have to say. The 45-day disclosure window means a March 19 trade can be filed as late as early May, which makes real-time tracking difficult for anyone not watching the filings closely.
The one trade that didn't happen on March 19 is the American Tower sale on April 17. American Tower is a cell-tower REIT. McCormick sold it for the worst 30-day alpha outcome in his recent record: minus 10.5 points. He sold a REIT that subsequently outperformed the market. The Science and Technology committee doesn't have obvious jurisdiction over telecom infrastructure REITs. This one's just a loss.
The Race He Has to Survive First
All of this sits against the backdrop of a June 16 runoff that McCormick is not guaranteed to win. The challenger's campaign has built its message around constituent presence, and the social media footprint this week is running against McCormick on that specific question. Whether that framing moves enough votes in a low-turnout runoff is the actual variable in play right now.
A member who loses a runoff stops filing disclosures. The portfolio questions become academic.
A member who wins one goes back to Washington, back to the Armed Services Committee, back to the Science and Technology Committee, and back to a disclosure regime that requires reporting trades but asks nothing else of him at all.
The receipts are public. Make of them what you make of them.