Georgia GOP Jockeying: McCormick’s Town Hall Flop and Chairman Chess

Rep. Rich McCormick (7th Dis­trict) faced a staged town hall back­lash, Demo­c­rat gains in Forsyth Coun­ty, sig­nal­ing a warn­ing against a Sen­ate run ver­sus Jon Ossoff—a sto­ry now nation­al. Chris Carr, with funds, pitch­es for gov­er­nor at CPAC, while Trump push­es Kemp and Burt Jones for paper bal­lots, a state-lev­el fight. GA GOP con­ven­tions loom—county cau­cus­es ongo­ing, April 26 dis­trict, June 6–7 state—amid rumors Josh McK­oon, eye­ing a Trump nod, will chal­lenge David Cross for chair, poten­tial­ly paving the way for Salleigh Grubbs to rise from 1st vice chair if McK­oon wins and lat­er runs for AG.

• A lot of posi­tion­ing going on for the Sen­ate seat. The mem­bers of con­gress there is a rea­son why every­one has gone after the rep­re­sen­ta­tive from the 7th dis­trict, Rich McCormick. He didn’t have to hold a town hall. The con­gress­man couldn’t han­dle the mock­ing to maybe put him on notice that he wouldn’t make it as a sen­a­tor. It has become a nation­al sto­ry on the Sun­day shows. It is run­ning again this morn­ing. He endorsed Ron DeSan­tis and the town hall is their way of say­ing, “are sure you want to run against Jon Ossoff.” It was all staged and set up. The 7th dis­trict is Forsyth coun­ty and the democ­rats are creep­ing into the dis­trict. Then to make mat­ters worse, McCormick is run­ning to the AJC pod­cast to dis­cuss the town hall. 
• Chris Carr is run­ning for gov­er­nor and goes to CPAC. he does have mon­ey in the bank? Why would CPAC allow him on the stage? 
• Bri­an Kemp you were told by Don­ald Trump to go to paper bal­lots. Burt Jones you want to be the next gov­er­nor and you want Trump endorse­ment, go to paper bal­lots. The fed­er­al gov­ern­ment has no con­trol over this; it has to come from the pres­sure of the peo­ple. 
• GA GOP key con­ven­tion dates. Need to relax and wait for peo­ple to show their hand. The coun­ties 80K had their precinct cau­cus­es this past week­end. Com­ing up is the coun­ty precinct cau­cus. Then April 26 is the dis­trict con­ven­tion and June 6–7 is the State con­ven­tion. 
• Many have thought that Josh McK­oon would run for a state office. He has run for a statewide office. There are rumors that he has been get­ting the trump endorse­ment but recent­ly he announced that he was going to run for GOP chair. But he didn’t announce it until after David Cross announced. McK­oon had a deci­sion to make. They have to safe­guard the GOP chair posi­tion and no way could they let David Cross have it. It has been rumored that Salleigh Grubbs want­ed to be GOP chair. Anoth­er rumor once Cross announced he was run­ning Salleigh and McK­oon had a con­ver­sa­tion that Salleigh didn’t have a chance against David. There are peo­ple say­ing that Josh is going for the chair against David Cross. And Salleigh is going for 1st vice chair. The real pow­er is in the chair­man spot. In June if Josh wins chair and salleigh wins 1st vice chair and Josh resigns to run for AG it will ele­vate Salleigh to chair.