2026 Georgia Governor's Race Heats Up Amid Legislative Moves and Political Rumors

As Georgia's 2025 legislative session continues, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones is expected to announce his candidacy for governor in April, setting up a potential showdown with Attorney General Chris Carr. Political tensions are rising as Governor Brian Kemp reportedly distances himself from Jones, while the AJC seems cautiously supportive of Jones, only to likely turn against him once he becomes the GOP nominee. Legislative changes, such as a bill eliminating taxes on tips and SB39 targeting transgender youth healthcare, are also fueling political debates with implications for the 2026 elections. The GOP is facing challenges, with infighting among factions and fears of a Democratic resurgence, led by figures like Keisha Lance Bottoms. Meanwhile, the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee is targeting the Georgia House as a potential power shift in 2026, leaving the GOP scrambling to unite and regroup. With growing divisions, the question remains whether Republicans can maintain their foothold or risk a Democratic takeover.

At the beginning of the legislative session 2025, our Lt Governor made a statement to not to campaign for the next election cycle. Around the first week of April the session will end and once the session ends you will think the gun went off at the track. Immediately there will be an announcement and fundraising for 2026. It looks as if Lt Gov Burt Jones is running against AG Chris Carr for governor of GA. Rumor is that Brian and Marty Kemp are not fans of Burt Jones. Kemp is currently not wanting to support Chris Carr and is looking for a candidate now to run against Burt Jones. The AJC wouldn’t mind Burt Jones as the candidate on the general election ballot. The AJC seems pretty positive about Burt, but once he is on the ballot the AJCs knives will come out as they support the democrat candidate. A quick reminder of a 2021 law allows the governor, Lt governor and legislative leaders from both parties to raise unlimited funds through leadership communities. But it doesn’t apply to other posts, which means Carr and others running for governor or Lt governor must rely on traditional campaign accounts where donations are capped at 8,699 for the May 2026 primary.
A bill moving from the GA legislature would eliminate taxes on tips. Could this eliminate the practice of restaurants tacking on a mandatory gratuity to your bill? So could this have a political undertone to this bill for 2026?
We talked about SB39 yesterday as a political stunt. But, We have been asking for several years to protect girls' sports. We have been asking for years to stop the obscenities in our schools. We have been asking for years to stop paying for the transitions of our youth. Now we have a law to stop the transitions but there were not any consequences for the doctors, it didn’t have any teeth. Now we aren’t playing politics this year but it seems to be the year to get all these things we have been asking for for years. Now SB39 stops Medicaid from covering some medical care for transgender kids. What this bill does is politically give Lt Gov Burt Jones a campaign issue to defeat AG Chris Carr. this should have been an outrage years ago. AG Chris Carr settled a lawsuit to allow taxpayer money to be used for “gender affirming” care. What will the GA house of representatives do? Is this all for show? Or is Jon Burns going to accept the Senate version and will Brian Kemp sign it or will it die in the house?
The concern is that in 2026 republicans may decide to stay home and a democrat get elected.
Governor's race, this will get the republican push back. Keisha Lance Bottoms running for governor, she is launching her PAC called Georgia’s Promise. Keisha Lance Bottoms last job was in the Biden administration. Why would the AJC leave out her position in the Biden administration that Trump has just fired her from.
The democratic legislative campaign committee released its target map for the 2026 midterms on Tuesday. It identified the GA house as a power building chamber of the democrats to gain seats on the path to a new majority by 2030. Keep in mind the GOP has lost 19 state house seats, 5 state senate seats, and 2 US senate seats in 5 years. The republicans hold the house by a 9 seat majority. Republicans don’t have a path or structure because we have grifter team A here and team here to split the party and gifter team over here. Josh McKoon doesn’t have the ability to put a plan in place. Republicans in Georgia are too busy listening and following gifters and haters.
Josh McKoon is a very bad man, he is a false leader. He did not contribute to the Trump win in Georgia. He cannot do the job.