The Georgia Hour, episode 109: Splintering Georgia’s GOP with Election Chaos and Betrayal?

Uncov­er the explo­sive dra­ma tear­ing apart Georgia’s Repub­li­can Par­ty in this grip­ping pod­cast episode! Dive into alle­ga­tions that GOP Chair­man Josh McK­oon is fuel­ing divi­sion by manip­u­lat­ing elec­tions and key fig­ures like Kan­diss Tay­lor. From ignor­ing county’s elec­tion board law rewrite—sparking a lawsuit—to alleged­ly mis­lead­ing Tay­lor into a doomed 1st Dis­trict con­gres­sion­al run, McKoon’s tac­tics are cre­at­ing chaos. With Tay­lor clash­ing at the State Con­ven­tion and estab­lish­ment favorite Jim Kingston ris­ing, explore how McKoon’s plau­si­ble deni­a­bil­i­ty and use of women to divide the par­ty are shak­ing Georgia’s polit­i­cal core. Tune in for the full sto­ry on elec­tion integri­ty bat­tles, betray­al, and GOP infight­ing!

Seg 1 — Josh McKoon’s Mas­ter Plan: How He’s Divid­ed Georgia’s GOP and Rigs the Game!

Dive into the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty Chair­man Josh McK­oon, accused of orches­trat­ing divi­sion with­in the GOP by manip­u­lat­ing key fig­ures like Kan­diss Tay­lor. Tay­lor, a fer­vent 2020 elec­tion skep­tic, was alleged­ly mis­led into believ­ing she had McKoon’s sup­port for her 1st Dis­trict con­gres­sion­al run, only to face unex­pect­ed oppo­si­tion. At the Geor­gia GOP State Con­ven­tion, Taylor’s role on the nom­i­nat­ing com­mit­tee led to a clash with Kylie Kre­mer, fuel­ing fur­ther par­ty dis­cord. With McK­oon deny­ing involve­ment and estab­lish­ment favorite Jim Kingston gain­ing trac­tion at his fundrais­er, ques­tions arise about hid­den agen­das and betray­al in Georgia’s polit­i­cal land­scape.

• Josh McK­oon has led the way in divid­ing Geor­gia in as many ways as he can. Josh uses peo­ple, main­ly ladies to cre­ate the divi­sion. Josh has used Kan­diss Tay­lor and she was led to believe that sell­ing her belief in con­ser­v­a­tive val­ues and views and her belief that the 2020 elec­tion was stolen. She was led to believe that she would find friends when she would run for the first dis­trict con­gress seat. Now she is run­ning for the seat and she has oppo­nents that have come out. She goes to the State Con­ven­tion and is on the nom­i­nat­ing com­mit­tee. Kan­diss goes in dur­ing the inter­views to attack Kylie Kre­mer. 
• Josh will always claim plau­si­ble deni­a­bil­i­ty. He will say he did not know this was hap­pen­ing. Jim Kingston had his first cam­paign fundrais­er. Two ladies that are pic­tured with Jim Kingston car­ry the water for Josh McK­oon. At some point Kan­diss will find out that she has been played. Jim Kingston may be the pick by the estab­lish­ment in the first dis­trict. 

Seg 2 — Far-Right Geor­gia GOP Splin­ters Over Elec­tion Con­trol!

Explore the esca­lat­ing ten­sions with­in the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty led by Josh McK­oon. With GOP nom­i­nees Jason Fra­zier and Julie Adams, known for elec­tion skep­ti­cism, reject­ed by Ful­ton Coun­ty’s Demo­c­rat-led com­mis­sion, a law­suit chal­lenges the coun­ty’s author­i­ty to deny par­ty nom­i­na­tions. This bat­tle over elec­tion integri­ty, root­ed in a 2024 law change end­ing pro­bate judge over­sight, high­lights deep divi­sions and accu­sa­tions of vot­er sup­pres­sion tac­tics. Dis­cov­er why these coun­ty elec­tion boards are at the heart of Geor­gia’s polit­i­cal firestorm

• Pow­er mad: why a far right Geor­gia gop fac­tion is splin­ter­ing. Josh has done all he could to put peo­ple in dif­fer­ent groups. There is zero effort to uni­fy. 
• We knew they would do all they could to steal the elec­tion in 2020. It is very impor­tant espe­cial­ly in Ful­ton and DeKalb coun­ty that our elec­tions are han­dled by the coun­ties. Now in Geor­gia each coun­ty has an elec­tion board. When they wrote the law end­ing the pro­bate judge no longer run­ning the elec­tions in the 15 coun­ties, the com­mis­sion­ers could deny the par­ty nom­i­na­tions for the elec­tion board. The argu­ment will come up that we can­not have dif­fer­ent laws gov­ern­ing the elec­tions in the coun­ties. 
• Josh McK­oon brags about the elec­tion integri­ty chal­lenges that have been met. One thing that we have not done in the last two years is secure our coun­ty board of elec­tions… mean­ing 2 repub­li­cans, 2 democ­rats and a mem­ber appoint­ed by the com­mis­sion­er. This will be chal­lenged by Ful­ton, DeKalb and Cobb coun­ties. We know that the Ful­ton Coun­ty repub­li­can par­ty put up 2 nom­i­nees. Ful­ton coun­ty has a 5 mem­ber board. The repub­li­can par­ty pushed for elec­tion skep­tics to over­see Atlanta area vot­ing, that would be Jason Frasi­er and Julie Adams.  Julie chose not to cer­ti­fy an elec­tion, that start­ed a firestorm and cre­at­ed a rule that went to court. Jason has chal­lenged vot­ing in Ful­ton coun­ty. The demo­c­rat con­trolled Ful­ton Coun­ty com­mis­sion in May vot­ing along par­ty lines to reject the GOP s nom­i­nees. That led the GA repub­li­can par­ty to sue ear­li­er this month con­tend­ing the com­mis­sion is required to accept the party’s choic­es. We will see if the court will back up and get these two on the board. It will be a tall order because of the new law that was changed on pro­bate judges. We should have been fight­ing the issue then.