The Georgia Hour, episode 132: Georgia’s 2026 Senate Race: A GOP Civil War?

The 2026 Geor­gia Sen­ate race is shap­ing up as a con­tentious bat­tle with­in the Repub­li­can Par­ty, pit­ting sup­port­ers of for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump against those aligned with Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp. U.S. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Mike Collins, a staunch Trump ally and author of the Lak­en Riley Act, is posi­tioned as a lead­ing con­tender for the GOP nom­i­na­tion to chal­lenge Demo­c­ra­t­ic incum­bent Sen­a­tor Jon Ossoff. Collins lever­ages his “Amer­i­ca First” cre­den­tials and loy­al­ty to Trump, con­trast­ing him­self with for­mer foot­ball coach Derek Doo­ley, who is backed by Kemp but crit­i­cized for nev­er vot­ing for Trump, not donat­ing to Repub­li­can caus­es, and lack­ing con­ser­v­a­tive cre­den­tials. Dooley’s cam­paign is a Kemp-orches­trat­ed move to under­mine Trump’s influ­ence. The race is fur­ther com­pli­cat­ed by alle­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion, notably the $140 mil­lion First Lib­er­ty Build­ing and Loan (FLBL) Ponzi scheme linked to promi­nent Geor­gia Repub­li­can Edwin Brant Frost IV, with ties to Geor­gia GOP Chair Josh McK­oon and his asso­ciate Katie Frost. McKoon’s lead­er­ship and the Frost family’s con­tin­ued influ­ence in GOP cir­cles, despite the scan­dal, have raised con­cerns about par­ty integri­ty. Addi­tion­al­ly, Ful­ton County’s elec­tion board dis­putes and ongo­ing legal issues involv­ing Dis­trict Attor­ney Fani Willis add to the state’s polit­i­cal tur­moil, with some fram­ing it as a “crime scene” for elec­tion integri­ty. The GOP pri­ma­ry is increas­ing­ly seen as a Trump-Kemp proxy war, threat­en­ing to frac­ture the par­ty as it seeks to reclaim a Sen­ate seat in a crit­i­cal swing state.

• We lead the way in cor­rup­tion in Geor­gia. Every­thing is spin­ning apart all across the state. Every­time you turn around in the state MTG is try­ing to blow every­thing up in the state. 
• You can­not sup­port Derek Doo­ley for Sen­ate in GA you are sold out to Bri­an Kemp. The AJC leaves out that he has nev­er vot­ed for Don­ald Trump, nev­er sup­port­ed the repub­li­can par­ty in dona­tions. The AJC wants Derek Doo­ley to run against Jon Ossoff. 
• Mike Collins has played the Trump card as well as any politi­cian in Amer­i­ca. Mike Collins has played the Amer­i­ca First card as well as any politi­cian in Amer­i­ca. Mike Collins gave Trump the biggest win right before the State of the Union address, the Lakin Riley Act. 
• Kemp has met with John Thune and Tim Scott, they are in on this. Kemp made trips to DC and met with him in Val­dos­ta with a hand­shake then turned around and went against Trump. If you sup­port John Fred­er­icks and Deb­bie Doo­ley you have turned your back on Don­ald Trump. 
• Mike Collins has a chief of staff, Bran­don Phillips, who has a lit­tle bag­gage. You will read attacks on Bran­don Phillips on social media. The peo­ple writ­ing the attacks are work­ing for Bri­an Kemp.  But despite that the one guy that will always vote with Don­ald Trump and the Amer­i­ca First agen­da will be Mike Collins. Derek Doo­ley didn’t even go to the bal­lot box to vote for Don­ald Trump in the elec­tion, do you real­ly think he will back him in the Sen­ate. Bud­dy Carter might be a nice guy but he isn’t strong enough. 
• Some­one is writ­ing Derek Dooley’s social media posts for him. He will say Trump but he won’t vote for him. For­mer Uni­ver­si­ty of Ten­nessee head foot­ball coach Derek Doo­ley didn’t vote in mul­ti­ple pres­i­den­tial elec­tions, nev­er donat­ed to Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and declined to reg­is­ter as a repub­li­can in sev­er­al states, a record now draw­ing scruti­ny as he eyes a sen­ate run in swing state Geor­gia. Though he has the back­ing of Gov Bri­an Kemp, Doo­ley has con­sis­tent­ly opt­ed not to sup­port Trump at the bal­lot box or through finan­cial con­tri­bu­tions. Vot­er records show he didn’t cast a bal­lot in any Texas elec­tion in 2016 while liv­ing and work­ing there, and sim­i­lar­ly sat out New York elec­tions in 2020, accord­ing to that state’s Board of Elec­tions. Doo­ley declined to reg­is­ter as a repub­li­can even as his wife did so in mul­ti­ple states, accord­ing to pub­lic records. In 2005, he reg­is­tered with no par­ty affil­i­a­tion in Flori­da while his wife reg­is­tered as a repub­li­can. The same pat­tern occurred in 2020 when they reg­is­tered in New York. Geor­gia, where Doo­ley now resides, does not require vot­ers to declare a par­ty affil­i­a­tion. As of July 2025, fed­er­al cam­paign finance records show Doo­ley has nev­er donat­ed to Trump or any affil­i­at­ed group. His only report­ed polit­i­cal con­tri­bu­tion: $5500 to Kemp’s cam­paign. 
• Doo­ley reminds us of anoth­er Geoff Dun­can. At any time that Doo­ley met with the Kemps had Doo­ley said he liked Don­ald Trump he would have been out. Noth­ing in the Kemp fam­i­ly that points to them sup­port­ing Trump. One of the cri­te­rias is that you have to hate Trump. Don’t for­get that Kemp didn’t vote for Trump in the pri­ma­ry. Mar­ty Kemp said she would write Bri­an Kemp’s name instead of vot­ing for Don­ald Trump. 
• Any­one who is writ­ing attack ads on Mike Collins is sold out to Bri­an Kemp. 
• Frac­tured Alliances: The brew­ing GOP Civ­il War in Georgia’s 2026 Sen­ate race. Geor­gia GOP wor­ries the Sen­ate race will turn into Trump vs Kemp proxy war. 
• In Geor­gia we have 2 demo­c­rat sen­a­tors. In 2022, Warnock won against Her­schel Walk­er and got all the Sen­ate perks and lived in a home paid by the church. We are real­ly hop­ing that WE can take back the Sen­ate seat. We are hop­ing that we can main­tain the gov­er­nor’s man­sion to go against Jason Esteves. Brad Raf­fensperg­er will run as a repub­li­can if he jumps in the gov­er­nor’s race. If it goes to court the law­mak­ers will take qual­i­fy­ing away from the coun­ties. 
• Bri­an Kemp is work­ing on divid­ing the state and explod­ing the repub­li­can par­ty in going with a guy that does not vote, does not sup­port Trump in Geor­gia. 
• Fani Willis’ indict­ments are still an open case in the state of Geor­gia. The com­mis­sion didn’t find any­thing to remove Fani Willis, she is still in Ful­ton Coun­ty. Ful­ton Coun­ty is still a crime scene for the stolen elec­tion. 
• Here is the foot­ball play, Derek Doo­ley is going to say Trump, they have writ­ten some talk­ing points and he has prac­ticed them. He will try to get you to believe he will stand with Pres­i­dent Trump. If you align with Derek Doo­ley you align with Kemp. 
• The receiv­er is say­ing that the FLBL is a total and com­plete mess. 90% of their loans had default­ed. They want to lead you to believe that no one knew that they preyed on the elder­ly, church groups, and patri­ots. David Shafer who invest­ed $200,000 in FLBL and used McK­oon to write the cor­po­ra­tion papers for his busi­ness and tapped McK­oon as the next chair. McK­oon taps Katie Frost, employ­ee of FLBL, to lead sev­er­al com­mit­tees under his lead­er­ship. Did McK­oon autho­rize the GAGOP pay­ment to Best Guest Media on 6-16-2025 to get Katie Frost in media out­lets. Best Guest Media is a media con­sul­tant in NJ. Some­one at Best Guest Media worked on the Ted Cruz Sen­ate cam­paign with Katie Frost. The phone cir­cles are say­ing that Ted Cruz also invest­ed in First Lib­er­ty. On 6-16-2025, First Lib­er­ty was gone. Amongst the close friends, Josh McK­oon, Salleigh Grubbs, Mike Crane, Greg Dolezal and no one knew. Every­day there will be peo­ple that come to the sur­face of the vic­tims. 
• Last night Katie Frost was on News­Max, can some­one tell News­Max that Katie Frost is under inves­ti­ga­tion for the largest Ponzi scheme inves­ti­ga­tion in Geor­gia. Some­one tell News­Max that some­one is in tears today because they lost every­thing to the Frost fam­i­ly. 
• As of right now Brant Frost is the Cowe­ta Coun­ty chair. Krista Frost is the sec­ond vice chair of Cowe­ta Coun­ty. Katie Frost is the chair of the third dis­trict GOP, chair of the finan­cial over­sight com­mit­tee, chair of the nom­i­na­tion com­mit­tee. Josh McK­oon will not sep­a­rate from the Frost fam­i­ly. 
• The judge ruled with the Ful­ton Coun­ty repub­li­can par­ty, the Ful­ton Coun­ty board of com­mis­sion­ers must appoint the elec­tion crit­ics nom­i­nat­ed by the Ful­ton Coun­ty repub­li­can par­ty to the coun­ty elec­tion board, Jason Fraiz­er and Julie Adams. There will be an appeal. 
• They are try­ing to pull in Nick Saban, for­mer Alaba­ma coach, who has a home in Rabun coun­ty who tried to make a plea to Don­ald Trump for Derek Doo­ley. Derek Doo­ley lives in Rabun coun­ty.