The Georgia Hour, episode 136: Will Kemp’s Machine Sabotage MAGA’s Victory?

In the 2026 Geor­gia Gov­er­nor race, Burt Jones secures Don­ald Trump’s endorse­ment, posi­tion­ing him as a MAGA favorite against Chris Carr. Jones’ team pres­sures oppo­nents like MTG out of the race, but Bri­an and Mar­ty Kemp’s influ­ence looms large, poten­tial­ly back­ing a rival like Derek Doo­ley for Sen­ate. Rumors swirl around Clark Dean as a self-fund­ing wild­card, while Brad Raffensperger’s plans remain unclear. Georgia’s polit­i­cal land­scape is heat­ing up with elec­tion board con­tro­ver­sies, the Frost family’s grip on the third dis­trict, and Kan­diss Taylor’s first dis­trict bid. Stay updat­ed on Geor­gia pol­i­tics, MAGA dynam­ics, and the RNC chair race with Joe Gruters and Amy Kre­mer.

• Burt Jones got Don­ald Trump’s endorse­ment for Geor­gia Gov­er­nor. Burt Jones’ team has been try­ing to make sure they box in any oppo­si­tion. Right after the state con­ven­tion the team put a lot of pres­sure in mov­ing MTG out of the race. Now they put a lot of pres­sure on the White House to get the endorse­ment now. It real­ly looks good that he kicks the cam­paign off and is already endorsed by Trump. But Jones is not Bri­an and Mar­ty Kemp’s can­di­date. Bri­an and Mar­ty Kemp are not total­ly on board with Chris Carr, and you want me to believe that they are only going to focus on the Sen­ate and leave the governor’s office alone. The Kemps are not going to walk away from the gov­er­nor’s race. If it is just Burt Jones and Chris Carr it would not involve the Kemps. Are they going to leave him with his MAGA endorse­ment and run the table to get a bal­lot in the gen­er­al elec­tion? We don’t know what is hap­pen­ing with Brad Raf­fensperg­er. 
• There is a name out there, Clark Dean. There is a lot of dis­cus­sion cir­cling this guy. He can self-fund. He may put his name in for gov­er­nor.  We do not know for sure if he will jump in, it is rumored around in the polit­i­cal cir­cles. 
• MAGA will prob­a­bly sup­port Burt Jones. If peo­ple get an alter­na­tive, not Chris Carr or Brad Raf­fensperg­er, repub­li­cans will look at that per­son. There are a lot of insid­ers who are talk­ing that they don’t think Burt Jones can win against the demo­c­rat can­di­date. 
• When and will Mike Collins get the same endorse­ment from Don­ald Trump? 
• Bri­an Mar­ty and the girls want a repub­li­can gov­er­nor to help main­tain the pos­si­bil­i­ty that he main­tains the pos­si­bil­i­ty that he becomes the pres­i­dent of UGA. Remem­ber Kemp has appoint­ed all the mem­bers of the board of regents. Mar­ty has cho­sen Derek Doo­ley for Sen­ate. Don’t for­get that Bri­an Kemp has stabbed Don­ald Trump in the back with this dis­ap­point­ing appoint­ment for Sen­ate against Ossoff. We already know that Bri­an Kemp has put his fundrais­ing sup­port for Doo­ley to let every­one know that Doo­ley is the son of Vince Doo­ley. Doo­ley is a nev­er Trumper, he has nev­er vot­ed for Trump, nev­er sup­port­ed Trump and the only sup­port Doo­ley has giv­en is $5500 to Kemp’s cam­paign in 2022. Doo­ley has nev­er reg­is­tered as a repub­li­can. Derek Doo­ley per­son­al social media has been locked down. He has had his account on X since Jan 2010 and you can not go through it because he doesn’t want you to see that he is a nev­er Trumper. His team is try­ing to clean up his social media so you can­not see the truth. 
• The entire Bri­an Kemp machine is run­ning the Derek Doo­ley cam­paign. Amy Porter, Bri­an Kemp’s daugh­ter, has a busi­ness part­ner and the fundrais­ing is going through their small busi­ness and it is pos­si­ble that $15M can be skimmed off the top of the dona­tions. 
• The 3–2 pass­ing of the SEB res­o­lu­tion ask­ing for assis­tance from the DOJ is a closed case. The State elec­tions board would not hear the Joe Rossi case any longer they closed the case. When news sur­rounds the Ful­ton Coun­ty 2020 elec­tion, you have to stop and remem­ber that it is going nowhere. The case has been closed. The res­o­lu­tion is only a sug­ges­tion and ask­ing for the assis­tance. The SEB is not going direct­ly to the DOJ because they do not have the author­i­ty. The doc­u­ments at Ful­ton Coun­ty prob­a­bly no longer exist. 
• Don’t for­get in Ful­ton Coun­ty the Board of Elec­tions has refused to allow Jason Fraiz­er on the board and has not reap­point­ed Julie Adams going against the court order. Brid­get Thorne put the appoint­ments on the agen­da and then she removed it after the exec­u­tive meet­ing to fol­low the leg­isla­tive process. That is when the Ful­ton Co GOP said they are in con­tempt of court and asked for an emer­gency hear­ing. Judge David Emer­son will hear the peti­tion on Fri­day at 1:30pm. 
• In the state of Geor­gia, we have a major prob­lem in our elec­tions, there is no con­sis­ten­cy of how the coun­ties are to form their board of elec­tions. Not every coun­ty has to put the repub­li­can par­ty nom­i­nee on the coun­ty’s board of elec­tions. Just recent­ly all the coun­ties have been moved to a board of elec­tions and we need a con­sis­tent rul­ing on what needs to hap­pen and the repub­li­can par­ty needs to step up and make sure their nom­i­nees are accept­ed. 
• We have David Clark from Suwa­nee who has stepped in for Lt Gov­er­nor. Blake Tillery has kicked off his cam­paign for Lt Gov­er­nor.  
• The RNC chair­man Michael What­ley is run­ning for NC Sen­ate, now there is an open­ing. Joe Gruters is Trump’s endorsed can­di­date for Whatley’s replace­ment. The RNC sum­mer meet­ing is Aug 19–22 in Atlanta. Our RNC Nation­al com­mit­tee woman, Amy Kre­mer, who is one of three that will have a vote for the next chair of the RNC. Amy is hav­ing a lis­ten­ing tour across the state to get the grass­roots input. 
• MTG is say­ing she is stay­ing in her dis­trict. Nick Dyer, her chief of staff, left at the end of May. 
• The Frost fam­i­ly has full con­trol of the third dis­trict. Now there have been a cou­ple of days that the Frost fam­i­ly has not been on the front page of the AJC. The democ­rats are not going to leave it alone that they are con­trol­ling Geor­gia pol­i­tics. There will be indict­ments and oth­er names come out, so the ques­tion remains why won’t they get out of the dis­trict. It is not a mat­ter of admit­ting guilt. They are so cau­tious in doing things that they might admit guilt. No one is ask­ing them to step away, and they are dar­ing for some­one to ask them. This is not over in the third dis­trict. There are a lot of peo­ple in the third dis­trict who want to clean house, so noth­ing is stand­ing in the way of the mis­sion. There is some­thing wrong with how they will not leave the par­ty and no one will ask them to leave. There are peo­ple that are work­ing to clean the dis­trict. 
• Even though Jim Kingston has had sev­er­al large fundrais­ers, they see him as a spoiled brat. He thinks he is heir appar­ent, the Kingston name is the King of the dis­trict. But Kan­diss is not their go too. The first dis­trict is still wide open. The peo­ple who real­ly pay atten­tion to pol­i­tics in the first dis­trict are look­ing for an option. Kan­diss is still hope­ful that the Geor­gia GOP will get behind her after she qual­i­fies. 
• You can­not sup­port Derek Doo­ley and sup­port Don­ald Trump. Bri­an Kemp put Doo­ley in the race against the sup­port of Don­ald Trump, against the agree­ment with Don­ald Trump.