Dems Eye Taking Key Georgia Republican Senate Seat on Election Day!

Explore the lat­est twists in Geor­gia pol­i­tics as wealthy busi­ness­man Clark Dean eyes the 2026 gov­er­nor’s race, poten­tial­ly sidelin­ing Sec­re­tary of State Brad Raf­fensperg­er amid ongo­ing ten­sions from the 2020 elec­tion fall­out. On August 26, 2025, vot­ers will decide a high-stakes spe­cial elec­tion for State Sen­ate Dis­trict 21, where a sin­gle Demo­c­rat faces six Repub­li­cans in a runoff-bound race that could flip GOP con­trol and threat­en the par­ty’s slim major­i­ty. With over $1 mil­lion spent on this $18K/year seat, fears mount that low turnout could hand Democ­rats a win in this red dis­trict, high­light­ing Geor­gia’s unre­solved issues like jun­gle pri­maries and open vot­ing sys­tems. Mean­while, Repub­li­can Bri­an Mont­gomery joins a crowd­ed field in the 1st Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict to replace retir­ing Rep. Bud­dy Carter, bat­tling estab­lish­ment favorite Jim Kingston (son of a for­mer rep, but not from the dis­trict) and oth­ers like Kan­diss Tay­lor amid Savan­nah’s 1,000 paper plant lay­offs. Don’t miss the crit­i­cal Novem­ber 2025 Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion races—Democrats out­per­formed Repub­li­cans in pri­maries, and a sin­gle win could flood the state with cash for 2026. Ful­ton Coun­ty com­mis­sion­ers face con­tempt charges tomor­row for defy­ing a judge’s order to seat Repub­li­cans Jason Fra­zier and Julie Adams on the elec­tion board, fol­low­ing a rul­ing favor­ing the GOP and RNC. Kemp-endorsed Derek Doo­ley launch­es his Sen­ate bid with an AJC inter­view dodg­ing abor­tion ques­tions, backed by the gov­er­nor’s machine to counter Mike Collins, while promis­ing pro-life piv­ots. In the 2nd Dis­trict, San­ford Bish­op faces renewed chal­lenges from Chuck Hand (after 2024 runoff loss to Wayne John­son) and poten­tial­ly John­son again. Geor­gia’s 9th and 14th Dis­tricts see mul­ti­ple chal­lengers to incum­bents Andrew Clyde and Mar­jorie Tay­lor Greene, while Bar­ry Lou­d­er­milk in the 11th bat­tles his pri­ma­ry oppo­nent. 

• Sev­er­al weeks ago we talked about Clark Dean putting his name in for gov­er­nor, he has enough mon­ey to self-fund. Is he get­ting in the race to shut out Brad Raf­fensperg­er. 
• It is elec­tion day in Geor­gia for the spe­cial state Sen­ate elec­tion dis­trict 21. The fear is that a demo­c­rat will take the seat. In Geor­gia we don’t fix things. For years we have been try­ing to fix jun­gle pri­maries. And we want to close our pri­maries. Vot­ers are to decide between 7 can­di­dates in a spe­cial state Sen­ate elec­tion, 6 repub­li­cans and 1 demo­c­rat. In Geor­gia you have to get 50% plus 1, we know that there will be a run off. This seat is val­ued at $18K a year, over a mil­lion dol­lars has been spent on this race. There are strong odds that there could be a run off between a demo­c­rat and a repub­li­can. If a demo­c­rat is in a run off and the repub­li­cans don’t get their vot­ers out in 30 days a demo­c­rat could pull this dis­trict off. We have had sev­er­al years to end jun­gle pri­maries. 
• Bri­an Mon­to­gomery is run­ning for Geor­gia 1st con­gres­sion­al dis­trict as a repub­li­can. He is at least the ninth can­di­date in the race to replace US Bud­dy Carter. Oth­er can­di­dates are Jim Kingston who has the machine and donor base behind him, Krista Penn, Kan­diss Tay­lor and Pat Far­rell along with the democ­rats in the race. Jim Kingston is not from the dis­trict and is not enti­tled to the seat to fol­low his dad who pre­vi­ous­ly held the seat. In the first dis­trict 1000 peo­ple were laid off at a paper plant in Savan­nah. 
• Don’t for­get Novem­ber we have two Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion­er races. If we have a demo­c­rat take one or two of the seats, they will treat this win as if the democ­rats have won the Super Bowl. They are watch­ing VA and GA in Novem­ber. If repub­li­cans look at the num­bers in the pri­ma­ry, democ­rats out­paced the repub­li­cans by large mar­gins in both of these races. The Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion­er sets your rates on your util­i­ties. These races as bor­ing as they may sound to you, these races will set the tone for the sen­ate race, it will set the tone for the con­sti­tu­tion­al offices. If just one demo­c­rat wins, mon­ey will pour into this state for 2026. 
• Will Ful­ton Coun­ty demo­c­rat com­mis­sion­ers get arrest­ed tomor­row for con­tempt of court orders. The com­mis­sion­ers have not put Jason Fra­zier and Julie Adams on the board, the judge ruled in favor of the repub­li­can par­ty and the RNC. 
• Derek Doo­ley is Kemp endorsed. Derek Doo­ley did an inter­view with the AJC, BKP high­light­ed Derek Doo­ley com­ing into the race and the ground­work that they are lay­ing out. How it was all con­trolled and man­aged by the Kemp machine with Cody Hall. How we are watch­ing a cool­ing of Mike Collins and they are pulling Derek up to lev­el him out with Collins. In the inter­view he skirt­ed the ques­tion about abor­tion say­ing he needs to stay out of it. They will find a way to get Derek Doo­ley inter­view with a pro-life advo­cate and allow him to say how excit­ed he was in the heart­beat bill. 
• The sec­ond dis­trict of Geor­gia, San­ford Bish­op. Chuck Hand and Wayne John­son got in a runoff in 2024. Wayne John­son won the run off. Chuck hand has once again signed the paper­work to run again. WE are hear­ing that Wayne John­son will run again. 
• The ninth dis­trict has a cou­ple of chal­lengers and the same with the four­teenth. Bar­ry Lou­d­er­milk, 11th dis­trict, has an oppo­nent, his very first vote as a new­ly elect­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tive stabbed his con­stituents in the back.