The Georgia Hour, episode 89: Georgia GOP Election Drama: McKoon’s Slate vs. Grassroots Uprising

The June 7, 2025, Geor­gia GOP state offi­cer elec­tions are heat­ing up as Josh McKoon’s sta­tus quo slate faces a fierce grass­roots chal­lenge from David Cross, Lisa Pierce, Norine Can­tor, Lau­rie McClain, and Kylie Kre­mer. Despite McKoon’s endorse­ments from Trump and con­gres­sion­al lead­ers, he lacks Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp’s sup­port, rais­ing ques­tions. Mean­while, Democ­rats, led by Stacey Abrams, aim to flip the Geor­gia State House, tar­get­ing five vul­ner­a­ble Repub­li­can seats. Learn about the GOP inter­nal pow­er strug­gle, the fight for paper bal­lots, and the Demo­c­ra­t­ic plan to shift Georgia’s polit­i­cal land­scape.

• June 7th is the GA GOP state offi­cer elec­tions. They have tried to stop Lisa Pierce and Kylie Kre­mer from being on the bal­lot and they have under­es­ti­mat­ed Norine Can­tor. They have brought in Jeff D to run against Lau­rie McClain. In 2023 there wasn’t a slate, every­one just ran. Josh has put togeth­er a slate. There was not an inten­tion of hav­ing a slate and an oppo­si­tion slate. Josh want­ed to make sure that there wouldn’t be any­one that would push back against him. Josh has put togeth­er the slate that is the sta­tus quo, busi­ness as usu­al and he will con­tin­ue to use the cred­it card. They want to lead you to believe that if Josh is not elect­ed you are let­ting pres­i­dent Trump down and elect­ing Jon Ossoff. 
• Every­day we have an endorse­ment for Josh McK­oon. He has endorse­ments from the coun­ty to the pres­i­dent. He is miss­ing one. He has endorse­ments from mem­bers of con­gress, from the dis­trict lev­el… You would think that if you have an approval rat­ing of 63% by the cit­i­zens of Geor­gia and he is your boss… You would think that he would run into the office of Bri­an Kemp to get that endorse­ment. Josh McK­oon makes a quar­ter a mil­lion a year. Bri­an Kemp makes 180K a year, Lt Gov makes 96K a year. 
• The democ­rats have a plan. Democ­rats look to Stacey Abrams to flip the state house. There is a lot of leg­is­la­tion in the house that they had to nego­ti­ate with Stacey Abrams that went to Nathan Deal’s desk. Right now we are at 100 rep­re­sen­ta­tives in the Geor­gia state house and we have 5 vul­ner­a­ble seats that are look­ing at a half a per­cent over democ­rats and could flip and there may be anoth­er 3 in play. Now if things go in the wrong direc­tions we are look­ing at a demo­c­rat house. We already know that the first dis­trict is up in the air. 
• There is a plan to get demo­c­rat sher­iffs out of office and they are the top vote get­ters in the coun­ties. 
• Josh McK­oon doesn’t have a plan. 
• The Grass­roots are empow­ered with David Cross as chair­man, Lisa Pierce as first Vice Chair, Norine Can­tor as sec­ond Vice Chair, Lau­rie McClain as trea­sur­er and Kylie Kre­mer as assis­tant sec­re­tary. 
• Josh McK­oon says he can go to Bri­an Kemp at any time. With Josh get­ting the Trump endorse­ment why doesn’t he go into the office of Bri­an Kemp and demand paper bal­lots, if he is for paper bal­lots. He won’t because every­thing is false that he is run­ning on. 
• If David is elect­ed and Salleigh is elect­ed, she will imme­di­ate­ly move to remove David as chair. She has already worked with a team to remove David as sec­ond vice chair. 
• Find Geor­gians­ForTruth they have a plan for paper bal­lots at the con­ven­tion. Remem­ber that Josh McK­oon said that he was going to cor­rect the GA GOP fil­ing and he was for paper bal­lots.