Will Trump’s Endorsement Ignites Burt Jones’ Paper Ballot Push?

Burt Jones secures Trump’s endorse­ment for Georgia’s 2026 guber­na­to­r­i­al race. Will Burt Jones echo Pres­i­dent Trump in cham­pi­oning paper bal­lots over vot­ing machines amid a nation­al redis­trict­ing firestorm. Texas’ Repub­li­can-led redis­trict­ing, backed by Trump, aims to add five GOP House seats, with 30 dis­tricts favor­ing Trump by dou­ble dig­its, while Cal­i­for­nia Democ­rats counter with a plan to flip five Repub­li­can seats via a 2025 bal­lot ini­tia­tive. Georgia’s removal of near­ly 500,000 vot­ers from rolls and its redis­trict­ing to pre­serve 14 GOP-lean­ing dis­tricts high­light a strate­gic bat­tle, with the state import­ing Democ­rats despite its busi­ness-friend­ly rep­u­ta­tion. Eric Holder’s Nation­al Demo­c­ra­t­ic Redis­trict­ing Com­mit­tee faces dis­rup­tion as Trump push­es to end mail-in vot­ing and exclude non-cit­i­zens from the 2030 cen­sus count. Democ­rats grap­ple with a vot­er reg­is­tra­tion cri­sis, los­ing ground among young vot­ers and in bat­tle­ground states, where Trump’s appeal out­paces tra­di­tion­al GOP sup­port. If repli­cat­ed nation­wide, Texas’ mod­el could yield 100 addi­tion­al Repub­li­can seats, reshap­ing Con­gress.

• Burt Jones want­ed the Trump endorse­ment and he got the endorse­ment. He bet­ter be out there say­ing paper bal­lots, no more machines. 
• Every­thing ties togeth­er. Redis­trict­ing in Texas, redis­trict­ing in Cal­i­for­nia, Trump com­ing out to end mail in bal­lots and vot­ing on paper bal­lots, GA remov­ing near­ly 500K vot­ers from the rolls. Redis­trict­ing will be the future for democ­rats. Eric Hold­er left ear­ly to start the Nation­al demo­c­rat redis­trict­ing com­mit­tee, they have been work­ing on this for 10 years and Trump is blow­ing every­thing up. 
• Texas to pick up 5 new repub­li­can seats. Texas is admit­ting to you that 30 dis­tricts under the new map would go over­whelm­ing­ly for Trump. Texas is on a for­ward trend, Geor­gia is on a back­ward trend. In order for Geor­gia to main­tain the 14 dis­tricts, we have had to redraw our R dis­tricts into demo­c­rat ter­ri­to­ry to main­tain repub­li­can dis­tricts. When you hear that Geor­gia is the num­ber one state to do busi­ness, it should also say the num­ber one state to import democ­rats. 
• Pay atten­tion: Cal­i­for­nia wants to add 5 demo­c­rat dis­tricts by reach­ing into repub­li­can dis­tricts. This freaks them out, that Texas adds 5 repub­li­can seats with the 30 dis­tricts hav­ing +10R dis­tricts. Democ­rats will be rep­re­sent­ed in Texas, there will be +D dis­tricts. If the same mod­el was around the coun­try, repub­li­cans would get an addi­tion­al 100 seats. 
• The Demo­c­rat par­ty faces a vot­er reg­is­tra­tion cri­sis. Democ­rats are los­ing to new vot­ers, in bat­tle­ground states, young vot­ers, the gen­der gap. 
• If we can stop ille­gals from vot­ing in the cen­sus and we can grow the young vot­ers. These are Trump vot­ers not repub­li­can vot­ers. If we would use the mod­el of the vot­er turnout and what they are doing in Texas. If we stop the ille­gals from vot­ing in 2030, democ­rats will have a prob­lem.