The Georgia Hour, episode 83: GA GOP Chaos: McKoon’s Mess and Taylor’s Turmoil Threaten 2026

Musco­gee County’s recent round­table dis­cus­sions exposed deep rifts with­in the Geor­gia GOP, with Chair­man Josh McK­oon fac­ing intense scruti­ny. McKoon’s alleged deal with Kan­diss Tay­lor, who sparked con­tro­ver­sy by ini­ti­at­ing the removal of First Vice Chair BKP, has back­fired. Tay­lor, upset over a poll plac­ing her third in the First Dis­trict despite her name recog­ni­tion, is seen as a lia­bil­i­ty. If Jim Kingston enters the race, his family’s elec­toral prowess could shift dynam­ics, but McKoon’s lack of a 2026 plan threat­ens GOP suc­cess. The NRCC is unlike­ly to fund Georgia’s races, focus­ing instead on nine Demo­c­rat-flipped dis­tricts from 2024, leav­ing Georgia’s Sec­ond District—where Chuck Hand should have defeat­ed San­ford Bishop—an unlike­ly suc­cess. McKoon’s claim that Geor­gia hasn’t won a fed­er­al elec­tion in eight years ignores Trump’s 2020 vic­to­ry and David Perdue’s con­test­ed loss. Finan­cial­ly, the GA GOP strug­gles, rais­ing only $17,000 for the indictees in the first 3 months of McK­oon tak­ing office. Grass­roots ten­sions esca­late as Amy Kre­mer demands trans­paren­cy on GOP finances, while Salleigh Grubbs push­es to rewrite rules to curb MAGA influ­ence. McKoon’s lead­er­ship, accused of sidelin­ing grass­roots and favor­ing estab­lish­ment con­trol, risks alien­at­ing del­e­gates and jeop­ar­diz­ing the party’s 2026 prospects.

• Musco­gee coun­ty had round table dis­cus­sions with the can­di­dates. 
• Josh McK­oon is in a ter­ri­ble mess. Who­ev­er wins Chair­man they have a ter­ri­ble mess in the first dis­trict because Josh made a deal with Kan­diss Tay­lor. Kan­diss Tay­lor is the one that sub­mit­ted the com­plaint on BKP to start the removal process as first vice chair from the GA GOP. Kan­diss is mad that a poll went out because she has name recog­ni­tion and they put Kan­diss at num­ber 3 and that made her mad. If Jim Kingston gets in the race, the Kingston fam­i­ly knows how to run in the dis­trict and get elect­ed. 
• Josh McK­oon does not have a plan for 2026. There are nine dis­tricts that have flipped in 2024 that the democ­rats are work­ing to win back, none of them are in Geor­gia. Josh can­not sit down and be hon­est with you. He has cre­at­ed a mess in Geor­gia. In DC is the NRCC decides where the mon­ey goes for con­gres­sion­al dis­tricts. They will not put the mon­ey in GA because they will try to save the 9 seats in demo­c­rat areas. WE can­not win with Josh McK­oon because he can’t put togeth­er a plan. If Kan­diss Tay­lor is on the bal­lot in the gen­er­al elec­tion, democ­rats will pour mon­ey into it and make it a nation­al race and bleed it over to oth­er races. With Kan­diss Tay­lor on the bal­lot repub­li­cans don’t want to spend the mon­ey to defend the dis­trict. Kan­diss did what she was asked to do and threw the grass­roots under the bus. And now they are work­ing behind the scenes to get anoth­er can­di­date and Josh knows it. They are try­ing to get some­one in the pri­ma­ry to make it a safe dis­trict. 
• Now the sec­ond dis­trict. The dis­tinct we could flip. We had a can­di­date last time. Chuck Hand could have beat San­ford Bish­op last time. But we went for the white white guy that did­n’t even live in the dis­trict. Repub­li­can mon­ey will not come into Geor­gia from the RNC and NRCC when they will have to invest all their mon­ey in the 9 dis­tricts. As soon as can­di­dates see they can’t raise the mon­ey from DC and wait until Josh doesn’t pick up the phone in the sec­ond dis­trict. Josh is just cam­paign­ing and he doesn’t have a plan. 
• Josh said that we haven’t won a fed­er­al statewide elec­tion in eight years. WE won in 2020. Don­ald Trump won Geor­gia in 2020 and many of us feel that David Pur­due won also in 2020. Josh McK­oon needs to turn in the endorse­ment by Don­ald Trump. 
• Trump force 47 were vol­un­teers that came from out of state and were paid by Trump. The GA GOP did not raise the mon­ey that was used to run Trump Force 47. And the peo­ple did not come out to vote for the repub­li­can par­ty, they came to vote for Don­ald Trump. Josh McK­oon did not raise $23M because the RNC flushed the GA GOP with cash. At the first state com­mit­tee meet­ing at the Per­ry fish fry, the mon­ey that was raised in the first 3 months for the elec­tors was only $17k. The GA GOP web­site was not updat­ed with the chair and did not func­tion as a way to donate with no plan to raise mon­ey. There could have been a nation­al cam­paign. 2026 will not come with the mon­ey that was infused in 2024. 
• Josh McK­oon has nev­er come to the table and worked with oth­ers. They are try­ing to put togeth­er to keep the estab­lish­ment in lead­er­ship of the GA GOP. They are going to take notice and inven­to­ry of every­one that does not sub­mit, they will remove you from the par­ty. Salleigh Grubbs thinks they need to rewrite the rules to de-MAGA-fy Geor­gia. They want to keep the top estab­lish­ment and not allow the new crew to enter the GOP. They have to end the cycle of you hav­ing con­tact with the del­e­gates. They have to change the require­ments, they did every­thing they could to not qual­i­fy Lisa Pierce and Kylie Kre­mer. They want to stop the grass­roots to be empow­ered. You are noth­ing more than the mon­ey and the peo­ple that put out the signs. 
• Amy Kre­mer has been in pol­i­tics for a while. She had a bus tour across Amer­i­ca and end­ed up in DC. Amy Kre­mer ran for GA GOP state com­mit­tee woman. The del­e­gates vot­ed her in. Amy Kre­mer is part of the exec­u­tive com­mit­tee and is ask­ing for infor­ma­tion regard­ing the GA GOP finances. Amy just came back from an RNC meet­ing, she was prob­a­bly asked at the RNC meet­ing a ques­tion or two. 
• The con­ti­nu­ity com­mit­tee is to nev­er allow the grass­roots from ele­vat­ing in the par­ty. That is why you will hear Salleigh Grubbs say the rules need to be rewrit­ten.