The Georgia Hour, episode 80: Georgia GOP Chair Election 2025: David Cross vs. Josh McKoon

The Geor­gia GOP chair elec­tion on June 7, 2025, in Dal­ton is a piv­otal moment to reshape the party’s future in Geor­gia. Del­e­gates must ral­ly to vote for David Cross, Lisa Pierce, Norine Can­tor, Lau­rie McClaine, and Cindy Nixon to chal­lenge the entrenched pow­er struc­ture led by Bri­an Kemp, empow­ered by Josh McK­oon. McK­oon claims cred­it for rais­ing mil­lions, but crit­ics argue much of it came from the RNC, with ques­tion­able spend­ing recent­ly uncov­ered. Inves­ti­ga­tions by Tim Sharp reveal $28,149 in sus­pi­cious refunds, hint­ing at poten­tial finan­cial mis­con­duct involv­ing dona­tion plat­forms like WinRed. SB221, signed by Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp, enables lead­er­ship com­mit­tees to bypass tra­di­tion­al cam­paign finance lim­its, sidelin­ing the GA GOP and empow­er­ing gov­ern­ment lead­er­ship. This law under­mines grass­roots can­di­dates, rig­ging the sys­tem against MAGA hope­fuls. Cross, a prin­ci­pled busi­ness­man, pledges to restore bal­ance and ampli­fy grass­roots voic­es. The 2026 Sen­ate race, with John King and Mike Collins as con­tenders, under­scores the stakes, as Kemp’s influ­ence may out­weigh Trump’s. Attend the con­ven­tion, sup­port Cross, and reclaim the par­ty from estab­lish­ment con­trol. Vis­it crossforga.com or GAbal­lots on YouTube for can­di­date forums.

• On June 7th, it is our first oppor­tu­ni­ty to drain the swamp in Geor­gia. If you know del­e­gates in the coun­ty, you have to tell them to get to Dal­ton. The game plan is to get them to Dal­ton to vote. We have to get them to vote for David Cross, Lisa Pierce, Norine Can­tor, Lau­rie McClaine, Cindy Nixon and will revis­it asst sec­re­tary. 
• Josh McK­oon will con­tin­ue to tell you that he won the super bowl for Don­ald Trump and will con­tin­ue to tell you that he raised $23M but we know that is from the RNC. He tells you that he per­son­al­ly raised $3M and he had to pay for the legal bills for the indict­ed. Will the RNC get involved in 2026? Yes. Will the nation­al gov­er­nors asso­ci­a­tion get involved? Hope­ful­ly, we know Bri­an Kemp does not like Burt Jones. 
• To get to know the can­di­dates you can view all the forums on gabal­lots account on YouTube or vis­it crossforga.com for all the forums across the state that have been record­ed. 
• We report­ed yes­ter­day on the find­ings by Tim Sharp on the $28,149 refunds. And he found there were peo­ple that received a refund that did not donate to the par­ty. There are very qual­i­fied peo­ple work­ing on smurf­ing. We don’t have the source doc­u­ments but there are teams work­ing on it. And more infor­ma­tion will be com­ing from the research. You have all these dona­tion com­pa­nies, Act­Blue WinRed. If you take dona­tions there are clear­ing hous­es for the dona­tions. There are ways to laun­der mon­ey but we can’t make any firm state­ments on what is hap­pen­ing. 
• You could raise $3M quick­ly in pol­i­tics, the GA GOP Inc is hap­py fol­low­ing the law­mak­ers and hap­py with table scraps which fall off the table. $3M is noth­ing to brag about. There is no ques­tion there were enor­mous legal fees but what is ques­tioned is the equal sup­port between the 3 indictees. 
• What you will hear is that if David Cross is the chair­man it will be a dis­as­ter. But we should not sup­port any can­di­date that sup­ports SB221. The Geor­gia bill that cre­ates lead­er­ship com­mit­tees is SB221 which was signed into law by Gov­er­nor Kemp. This bill allows for the cre­ation of lead­er­ship com­mit­tees that can accept con­tri­bu­tions, make expen­di­tures and advo­cate for can­di­dates includ­ing dur­ing leg­isla­tive ses­sions. Now if there is a can­di­date that is out there that is a good can­di­date but doesn’t have the mon­ey to run and if you are not in the win­ning group you will not get any help. If you are run­ning for the state house or state sen­ate and don’t buy into their con­trol you don’t stand a chance. Before this law came into place, law­mak­ers couldn’t raise mon­ey while the ses­sion was in. It was set up that you could­n’t’ raise cam­paign mon­ey so that peo­ple couldn’t influ­ence you to get you to sup­port cer­tain bills. The pow­er struc­ture could not allow some­one to raise mon­ey to run against you. The way to shut it down is to cre­ate these lead­er­ship com­mit­tees con­trolled by the gov­er­nor, lieu­tenant gov­er­nor, par­ty lead­ers in both cham­bers of the leg­is­la­ture and nom­i­nees for those posi­tions. The gold dome has decid­ed who the nom­i­nees are. It is all rigged. The pow­er struc­ture has been tak­en away from the peo­ple. 
• The goal is to wipe out the par­ty and final­ize the take over. 
• SB221 aims to facil­i­tate fundrais­ing and spend­ing for elec­tion-relat­ed activ­i­ties poten­tial­ly bypass­ing tra­di­tion­al cam­paign finance lim­i­ta­tions, bypass­ing the par­ty. 
• The par­ty is only for bal­lot access. And they are work­ing each leg­isla­tive ses­sion to elim­i­nate bal­lot access, rank choice vot­ing, and shift to non-par­ti­san offices. And the threat they always claim when the account­abil­i­ty rule comes up is bal­lot access. The coun­ties count on qual­i­fy­ing week. Every two years is qual­i­fy­ing week. Every­one that goes into that line goes with their check­book. And if the GOP says they want account­abil­i­ty they will change bal­lot access. 
• Josh McK­oon is the GOP chair to make sure noth­ing hap­pens to the pow­er struc­ture. 
• If that bill had not passed, the mon­ey would be flow­ing into the GA GOP inc and the law­mak­er would be com­ing to the GA GOP. The law­mak­ers don’t have to come to our meet­ings, they don’t have to be a del­e­gate, they don’t need the par­ty. The pow­er struc­ture has moved and Josh has to car­ry it out. At the top of the pow­er struc­ture is mon­ey. 
• Kemp is at the top of the pow­er struc­ture. They are going de-MAGA the par­ty. 
• John King gets in the race for Sen­ate. Kemp’s nod may mat­ter more than Trump’s in the sen­ate bat­tle. Pay atten­tion. We are going into 2026. Josh McK­oon will say that we have to defeat Ossoff, California’s third sen­a­tor, and pre­serve the gov­er­nor’s man­sion and stop there. Only recent­ly has he said up and down the bal­lot because of pres­sure from David Cross. 
• Kemp wants to con­trol this sen­ate office. 
• There is some polling that has come out. MTG runs away with the pri­ma­ry. But she could not win the gen­er­al elec­tion. Now with MTG out Mike Collins shifts into the front. We are still wait­ing to see if Mike Collins will get in the elec­tion. In the gen­er­al bal­lot Ossoff is up 5 points over Mike Collins. In the gen­er­al, MTG did not stand a chance against Ossoff. 
• John King stepped in. We are going to have every office on the bal­lot, in the pri­ma­ry it will be a fight for the MAGA title and the fear is that there will not be a MAGA in the end. 
• If you go June 7th and pick Josh McK­oon as chair who is pre­tend­ing to be MAGA. Josh will not go against the pow­er struc­ture. There is a way to maneu­ver to cor­rect the bal­ance of pow­er in the state. Josh McK­oon is in the pow­er struc­ture, he will play the game of who is the MAGA and play the game of not get­ting involved in the pri­ma­ry. After we have been duped to get the MAGA can­di­date, they have to run in the cen­ter to win. Then you will be told that you have to vote for the R because any day the R is bet­ter than a demo­c­rat. And we are back where we start­ed. 
• If you want to cor­rect the bal­ance of pow­er, you need to go June 7th and vote for David Cross and restore bal­ance. David Cross is the calm bal­anced busi­ness man that will give the grass­roots a seat at the table.