Georgia GOP Grapples with Election Integrity Concerns and Leadership Distrust Ahead of 2026

The deep skep­ti­cism with­in the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty, focus­ing on Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp being urged to run for U.S. Sen­ate and spec­u­la­tion about oth­er statewide races in 2026. A recent GOP chair­man debate in Cobb Coun­ty between Josh McK­oon and Cross high­light­ed dis­trust in McK­oon, accused of pri­or­i­tiz­ing his polit­i­cal career over gen­uine elec­tion secu­ri­ty despite past sup­port for Don­ald Trump. Ques­tion­ing McKoon’s motives, was he elect­ed GA GOP chair to pro­tect for­mer chair David Shafer rather than address elec­tion rig­ging con­cerns?

Sig­nif­i­cant atten­tion is giv­en to Georgia’s elec­tion sys­tem, par­tic­u­lar­ly the use of Domin­ion vot­ing machines across all coun­ties, crit­i­cized as inse­cure by fig­ures like Tul­si Gab­bard and Trump, who push for paper bal­lots. Point­ing to Gabe Sterling’s role in imple­ment­ing these machines as a state offi­cial, only to return to the Sec­re­tary of State’s office after the con­test­ed 2020 elec­tion. The dis­missal of the Toten­berg case, which raised machine con­cerns, and Sec­re­tary of State Brad Raffensperger’s reliance on that out­come. Frus­tra­tion is expressed over the Geor­gia legislature’s fail­ure to pass any elec­tion secu­ri­ty bills in the lat­est ses­sion, a first since 2020, despite pub­lic find­ings from Gab­bard and Trump’s ongo­ing claims. The nar­ra­tive por­trays a par­ty divid­ed, with lead­er­ship like McK­oon and Kemp seen as out of step with Trump’s elec­tion secu­ri­ty pri­or­i­ties, fuel­ing calls for reform as 2026 looms.

• They are beg­ging Kemp to run for US Sen­ate. And look­ing at oth­ers in what they will do in statewide races. 
• The oth­er night they had the GOP chair­man debate in Cobb coun­ty between McK­oon and Cross. McK­oon can­not be trust­ed in Geor­gia. He pre­tends to be all about elec­tion secu­ri­ty and he want­ed to sup­port Don­ald Trump before the pri­ma­ry but it is all about fur­ther­ing his polit­i­cal career. 
• Remem­ber we have Crebs who Trump is inves­ti­gat­ing and then we have the Toten­berg case where Raf­fensperg­er is hang­ing his hat on her dis­missal despite con­cerns of the machines. Tul­si Gab­bard says we need to go to paper bal­lots for the secu­ri­ty of our elec­tion. Every coun­ty in GA uses demo­ni­on vot­ing machines. It was the largest vot­ing machine project in the com­pa­ny’s his­to­ry. They could not find a sub­con­trac­tor to do the imple­men­ta­tion of the machines, did we say no we bet­ter pass. No, what we did was take Gabe Ster­ling in GA, an employ­ee of the SOS office and became the state’s imple­men­ta­tion man­ag­er of the sys­tem and after the elec­tion was rigged and stolen he went back to work in the SOS. We have to have safe elec­tions. 2026 is com­ing to GA. McK­oon talked about win­ning but what we need to have a secure elec­tion. It is a shame that Josh McK­oon, Bri­an Kemp and none of our law­mak­ers can agree with Pres­i­dent Trump. Josh McK­oon, the GA GOP chair, who stood on the stage of the 2023 con­ven­tion to talk about paper bal­lots, and refil­ing the paper­work. He told the audi­ence how he wants to win in 2026. This is the first leg­isla­tive ses­sion that it is pub­lic what Tul­si Gab­bard is find­ing and what Trump has always said is that not a one elec­tion secu­ri­ty bill was passed. Do you think Josh McK­oon was elect­ed to expose the rig elec­tion and secure our elec­tions? No, he was elect­ed to keep David Shafer out of jail.