The Georgia Hour, episode 211: GEORGIA GOP: It Is Leaderless, Rigged and Heading for 2026 Disaster

In this explo­sive Decem­ber 1, 2025 episode of The Geor­gia Hour on Voice of Rur­al Amer­i­ca, host BKP pulls no punch­es as he declares the Geor­gia Repub­li­can Par­ty a total dis­as­ter head­ing into the crit­i­cal 2026 elec­tions.

Key points cov­ered:

• The May 2025 Geor­gia GOP state con­ven­tion was bla­tant­ly rigged to re-elect Josh McK­oon as chair­man over chal­lenger David Cross. BKP, who has par­tic­i­pat­ed in coun­ty, dis­trict, and state con­ven­tions for years, says the manip­u­la­tion went far beyond the infa­mous “click­er” con­tro­ver­sy.
• Josh McK­oon has zero lead­er­ship abil­i­ty, can­not unite any fac­tion (MAGA, GRA, rur­al coun­ties, black or His­pan­ic Repub­li­cans, paper-bal­lot advo­cates), and rules through vin­dic­tive back-room deals, fear, and a clique of “self-celebri­ty” phonies who care more about self­ies than win­ning.
• The shock­ing week­end res­ig­na­tion of 19-year-old JaQuan Stem­bridge, the youngest per­son ever elect­ed to statewide GOP office (Assis­tant Sec­re­tary). Stem­bridge, a black col­lege stu­dent from Greene Coun­ty, was alleged­ly caught in an ama­teur sting oper­a­tion try­ing to meet a 14-year-old boy for sex (videos cir­cu­lat­ing wide­ly, no charges filed yet). BKP insists the kid was exploit­ed from day one—paraded around as a diver­si­ty “prize,” lav­ished with din­ners, clothes, and mon­ey by par­ty insid­ers, nev­er men­tored, and pos­si­bly set up. He argues the par­ty should nev­er have allowed a 19-year-old with no lead­er­ship expe­ri­ence into such a posi­tion.
• With the Trump/Fulton Coun­ty RICO case final­ly dead, Brad Raf­fensperg­er is offi­cial­ly run­ning for gov­er­nor as a Repub­li­can, and the par­ty is too incom­pe­tent to stop him. Burt Jones’s ear­ly “dark mon­ey” attack ads are already run­ning and will only get worse if he’s the nom­i­nee.
• 2026 out­look is grim: Sen­ate race (Bud­dy Carter, Mike Collins, or oth­ers vs. incum­bent Jon Ossoff), governor’s race (Raf­fensperg­er, Burt Jones, Chris Carr, pos­si­bly MTG), plus down-bal­lot seats. Repub­li­cans con­trol every statewide office yet just lost two PSC seats and risk get­ting crushed on crime, edu­ca­tion, and elec­tric rates because of zero lead­er­ship and infight­ing.
• BKP’s blunt bot­tom line: Josh McK­oon should resign imme­di­ate­ly. The cur­rent Geor­gia GOP “Inc.” is bank­rupt, lead­er­less, vin­dic­tive, and more con­cerned with pho­to-ops than win­ning. With­out a total tear­down and rebuild, 2026 will be a blood­bath.

A fiery, no-holds-barred hour of rur­al Geor­gia con­ser­v­a­tive talk that names names, expos­es back-room deals, and demands the par­ty clean house before it’s too late.