The Georgia Hour, episode 189: Weasels in the Wires, Georgia’s Senate Surge, and Hyundai Headaches

In this live­ly spe­cial edi­tion of The Geor­gia Hour host­ed by BKP on Voice of Rur­al Amer­i­ca, the focus is square­ly on the brew­ing storms in Geor­gia’s 2026 pri­maries, blend­ing fresh polling data, endorse­ment intrigue, and point­ed cri­tiques of estab­lish­ment play­ers. Kick­ing off with a nod to his upcom­ing noon speech at the Gold­en Cor­ral in Gainesville to a MAGA group—promising unmiss­able insights into can­di­dates and elec­tion futures—BKP dives into the U.S. Sen­ate race to replace Jon Ossoff. Cit­ing recent polls, he high­lights Mike Collins as the steady fron­trun­ner but warns of stag­na­tion, with Bud­dy Carter back­slid­ing and dark horse Derek Doo­ley rock­et­ing from obscu­ri­ty. BKP attrib­ut­es Doo­ley’s momen­tum to savvy fundrais­ing spins—backed by Gov­er­nor Kem­p’s endorse­ment and surrogates—positioning him as the “up-and-com­er” to donors, while sub­tly jab­bing Collins’ cam­paign for employ­ing Bran­don Phillips. He notes Trump’s delib­er­ate pause, sig­nal­ing a high-stakes race with self-fund­ing from the wealthy Carter unlike­ly to close gaps as things tight­en.

Shift­ing to the gov­er­nor’s race, BKP spot­lights attacks on can­di­date Burt Jones via the pro-Chris Carr web­site Keep Geor­gia Strong, which released a scathing video accus­ing Jones of cronyism—rewriting laws for fam­i­ly land deals worth $10 mil­lion in data cen­ters and health­care devel­op­ments, framed as a “fam­i­ly wind­fall.” He pre­dicts esca­la­tion, teas­ing a noon deep-dive on guber­na­to­r­i­al con­tenders like Chris Carr, Brad Raf­fensperg­er, Jones, and Dean Clark, plus spec­u­la­tion on Mar­jorie Tay­lor Greene’s poten­tial entry. BKP con­trasts this with Trump’s ear­ly, direct endorse­ment of Jones—secured via fam­i­ly ties (Jones’ father donat­ed heav­i­ly to Trump)—designed to pre­empt MTG.

The episode heats up with the Hyundai raid fall­out: BKP recaps Gov­er­nor Kem­p’s Kore­an invest­ments (SK Bat­tery, LG, mas­sive Colum­bus mag­net plant) as his­toric wins, but slams the ICE oper­a­tion arrest­ing 574 (300 Kore­an nation­als) for immi­gra­tion vio­la­tions at the EV bat­tery site. Quot­ing Trump’s Air Force One remarks oppos­ing the raid—citing needs for skilled pro­pri­etary work­ers over “unem­ploy­ment line” hires—BKP voic­es con­cerns that import­ed train­ers aren’t rotat­ing out, sidelin­ing Amer­i­can jobs post-train­ing. He calls out the “fol­ly” of anti-raid cheer­lead­ers ignor­ing Trump’s stance, urg­ing vig­i­lance to ensure locals ben­e­fit from these plants.

Rumors and dis­trust dom­i­nate the back­end: BKP unpacks whis­pers of White House aide Jon George fundrais­ing for a con­tro­ver­sial con­fer­ence and alleged­ly push­ing endorse­ments via his South­east region­al polit­i­cal direc­tor role. He accus­es George—ex-Trump-Vance Geor­gia director—of manip­u­lat­ing the process along­side fig­ures like GAGOP’s Josh McK­oon (Trump-endorsed but via inter­me­di­aries), Michael What­ley (North Car­oli­na Sen­ate hope­ful), and the reviled Den­nis Futch (“Boss Hog,” foul-mouthed sher­iff-threat­en­er). BKP ties this to an AJC poll show­ing Trump’s endorse­ment sways 36% of GOP pri­ma­ry vot­ers pos­i­tive­ly (69% strong­ly approve of Trump among Repub­li­cans) but is “lim­it­ed” over­all (53% indif­fer­ent), out­pac­ing Kem­p’s 31% bump. He insists Jones’ nod was pure Trump, not George’s “cahoots” crew, and warns of Lin­coln Project-style “Nev­er Trumpers” lurk­ing.

Wrap­ping with broad­er elec­tion jabs, BKP ques­tions SB 202’s Sun­day vot­ing addi­tion (sneaked in late, cred­it­ing unnamed insid­ers for eas­ing access while keep­ing Domin­ion QR codes and drop box­es), endors­es Pub­lic Ser­vice Com­mis­sion can­di­dates Tim Echols and Fitz John­son to block Demo­c­ra­t­ic gains amid Geor­gia Pow­er’s data cen­ter demands (equal­ing Plant Vogtle’s out­put), and frets over Repub­li­can complacency—wondering if a slimmed major­i­ty (3–2) might force “act­ing like Repub­li­cans” on rates. He shares his Elec­tion Day vot­ing plan (despite past ear­ly votes for trans­paren­cy) and plugs the Roku app, web­site dona­tions, and Face­book Live from Gainesville. True to form, BKP caps with barbs at “extra white” GOP insid­ers like Brant Frost (“Albi­no Rhi­no”), a senior-swin­dling Ponzi scheme, and “poor lit­tle Deb­bie” suf­fer­ing amid hunger crises—leaving lis­ten­ers with a call to patri­ots: tune in, get fed, and fight the spin.