The Georgia Hour, episode 104: Georgia GOP in Crisis: GRA Exodus, A Threaten 2026 FLIP!

Uncov­er the tur­moil with­in the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Assem­bly (GRA) as key mem­bers resign and ques­tions swirl around GA GOP Chair­man Josh McKoon’s pri­or­i­ties. From low vot­er turnout in the 2025 Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion pri­ma­ry to alle­ga­tions of finan­cial mis­con­duct and McKoon’s rumored ties to Turn­ing Point, the Geor­gia GOP faces chal­lenges head­ing into the 2026 elec­tions. Learn why the GRA’s state­ment from Pres­i­dent Alex John­son may be mis­lead­ing, how the loss of 19 State House seats sig­nals trou­ble, and what it means for the future of Repub­li­can con­trol in Geor­gia. Dive into the FEC fil­ings, the AJC’s shift­ing cov­er­age, and the bat­tle for the State House and Sen­ate.

• The GRA is up to some­thing. They are leav­ing. We have a prob­lem going into 2026 that you have nev­er heard come out of Josh’s mouth while cam­paign­ing. Alex John­son the pres­i­dent of the Nation­al Fed­er­a­tion of Repub­li­can Assem­bly. It is up to Alex to come out and write some­thing to know what hap­pened at the con­ven­tion. Alex did not write that state­ment from the GRA for the peo­ple in the room. He wrote the state­ment to mis­lead the peo­ple that could not attend the con­ven­tion. What are they up to and Why did Salleigh Grubbs and Josh McK­oon stay in the GRA. 
• We had an elec­tion. Josh was more con­cerned and has nev­er dis­cussed a plan for elec­tions. When you bring up a finan­cial audit there are peo­ple that put up a halo on Karen Hen­schel and Josh McK­oon could be spend­ing a lot of extra time in Ari­zona and with Char­lie Kirk which could lead to a South­east direc­tor for Turn­ing Point. 
• We have 5 repub­li­can pub­lic ser­vice com­mis­sion­ers in the state of GA that set our rates for our elec­tric. WE had a pri­ma­ry the oth­er day repub­li­cans only had 65K and the demo­c­rat unop­posed can­di­date got 125K votes. Where was Josh? What hap­pened with vot­er turnout? 
• The AJC has already turned. They were wait­ing. These are the peo­ple that want­ed to make sure that Josh McK­oon was in there. These are the peo­ple that repub­li­cans leak things to all the time. There were two trig­gers. They were wait­ing for the GOP chair and now they are wait­ing for July. Yes­ter­day the AJC came out and ran a Chris Carr vs Burt Jones arti­cle. Race for con­trol of GA state House already in motion. Josh has been too busy with Turn­ing Point, the mar­ri­nattes, and cam­paign­ing as the Super­bowl coach. 
• The GA state house of rep­re­sen­ta­tives, repub­li­cans had 119 seats. Now repub­li­cans hold 100. They have lost 19 seats. Remem­ber Jon Burns just had their cau­ca­sus in Sea Island while you were at a con­ven­tion in Dal­ton. Josh doesn’t even men­tion the state house. They only want bal­lot access from the GOP. In 2018 the last midterm elec­tion dur­ing Trump’s first term, democ­rats gained 11 seats in the state house. If all 80 democ­rats hold their seats, a sim­i­lar show­ing would allow them to take con­trol of the cham­ber. There are seats out there that are in dan­ger. It is get­ting extreme­ly dif­fi­cult to pass leg­is­la­tion. It takes 29 votes in the Sen­ate to pass a bill, it takes 91 in the house. 
• House dis­trict 128 the demo­c­rat state rep won by 48 votes. Repub­li­cans could run a for­mi­da­ble can­di­date, or they may con­tin­ue to try to con­vince Jack­son who sup­port­ed anti abor­tion restric­tions in 2019 and vot­ed in favor of Kemps pri­or­i­ty leg­is­la­tion to switch par­ties. 
• Is our Sen­ate going to be con­ser­v­a­tive with the new lead­ers? Jason Anav­i­tarte as major­i­ty leader and Lar­ry Walk­er as pres­i­dent pro tem­pore. 
• We all remem­ber the let­ter from the GA GOP State trea­sur­er before the con­ven­tion. Pos­si­ble embez­zle­ment with­in the GA GOP. Now for some rea­son you can not say any­thing about Josh McK­oon and Karen Hen­schel. Who has the cred­it cards and who does the spend­ing. More FEC ques­tion­able fil­ings. We will con­tin­ue to look at the FEC fil­ings. 
• The 14th dis­trict of GA is red, a big +R. She has repub­li­can pri­ma­ry oppo­nents and sev­er­al demo­c­rat oppo­nents. Char­lie Bai­ley, the demo­c­rat chair has said that there are 700 seats that will put democ­rats in the race in an attempt to gain a con­sti­tu­tion­al office. North Geor­gia is red and a demo­c­rat will not win a seat but it is the pop­u­la­tion that will over­come the num­bers of the metro area but they are work­ing to scratch away from the repub­li­can vote to win that con­sti­tu­tion­al office. 
• Hope that there are peo­ple watch­ing what is hap­pen­ing with the demo­c­rat par­ty but they are too busy inter­est­ed in the per­son­al advance­ments rather than doing what is right for the par­ty, state and coun­try.