2026 Georgia Governor’s Race Heats Up Amid Legislative Moves and Political Rumors

As Geor­gia’s 2025 leg­isla­tive ses­sion con­tin­ues, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones is expect­ed to announce his can­di­da­cy for gov­er­nor in April, set­ting up a poten­tial show­down with Attor­ney Gen­er­al Chris Carr. Polit­i­cal ten­sions are ris­ing as Gov­er­nor Bri­an Kemp report­ed­ly dis­tances him­self from Jones, while the AJC seems cau­tious­ly sup­port­ive of Jones, only to like­ly turn against him once he becomes the GOP nom­i­nee. Leg­isla­tive changes, such as a bill elim­i­nat­ing tax­es on tips and SB39 tar­get­ing trans­gen­der youth health­care, are also fuel­ing polit­i­cal debates with impli­ca­tions for the 2026 elec­tions. The GOP is fac­ing chal­lenges, with infight­ing among fac­tions and fears of a Demo­c­ra­t­ic resur­gence, led by fig­ures like Keisha Lance Bot­toms. Mean­while, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Leg­isla­tive Cam­paign Com­mit­tee is tar­get­ing the Geor­gia House as a poten­tial pow­er shift in 2026, leav­ing the GOP scram­bling to unite and regroup. With grow­ing divi­sions, the ques­tion remains whether Repub­li­cans can main­tain their foothold or risk a Demo­c­ra­t­ic takeover.

• At the begin­ning of the leg­isla­tive ses­sion 2025, our Lt Gov­er­nor made a state­ment to not to cam­paign for the next elec­tion cycle. Around the first week of April the ses­sion will end and once the ses­sion ends you will think the gun went off at the track. Imme­di­ate­ly there will be an announce­ment and fundrais­ing for 2026. It looks as if Lt Gov Burt Jones is run­ning against AG Chris Carr for gov­er­nor of GA. Rumor is that Bri­an and Mar­ty Kemp are not fans of Burt Jones. Kemp is cur­rent­ly not want­i­ng to sup­port Chris Carr and is look­ing for a can­di­date now to run against Burt Jones. The AJC wouldn’t mind Burt Jones as the can­di­date on the gen­er­al elec­tion bal­lot. The AJC seems pret­ty pos­i­tive about Burt, but once he is on the bal­lot the AJCs knives will come out as they sup­port the demo­c­rat can­di­date. A quick reminder of a 2021 law allows the gov­er­nor, Lt gov­er­nor and leg­isla­tive lead­ers from both par­ties to raise unlim­it­ed funds through lead­er­ship com­mu­ni­ties. But it doesn’t apply to oth­er posts, which means Carr and oth­ers run­ning for gov­er­nor or Lt gov­er­nor must rely on tra­di­tion­al cam­paign accounts where dona­tions are capped at 8,699 for the May 2026 pri­ma­ry. 
• A bill mov­ing from the GA leg­is­la­ture would elim­i­nate tax­es on tips. Could this elim­i­nate the prac­tice of restau­rants tack­ing on a manda­to­ry gra­tu­ity to your bill? So could this have a polit­i­cal under­tone to this bill for 2026? 
• We talked about SB39 yes­ter­day as a polit­i­cal stunt. But, We have been ask­ing for sev­er­al years to pro­tect girls’ sports. We have been ask­ing for years to stop the obscen­i­ties in our schools. We have been ask­ing for years to stop pay­ing for the tran­si­tions of our youth. Now we have a law to stop the tran­si­tions but there were not any con­se­quences for the doc­tors, it didn’t have any teeth. Now we aren’t play­ing pol­i­tics this year but it seems to be the year to get all these things we have been ask­ing for for years. Now SB39 stops Med­ic­aid from cov­er­ing some med­ical care for trans­gen­der kids. What this bill does is polit­i­cal­ly give Lt Gov Burt Jones a cam­paign issue to defeat AG Chris Carr. this should have been an out­rage years ago. AG Chris Carr set­tled a law­suit to allow tax­pay­er mon­ey to be used for “gen­der affirm­ing” care. What will the GA house of rep­re­sen­ta­tives do? Is this all for show? Or is Jon Burns going to accept the Sen­ate ver­sion and will Bri­an Kemp sign it or will it die in the house? 
• The con­cern is that in 2026 repub­li­cans may decide to stay home and a demo­c­rat get elect­ed. 
• Gov­er­nor’s race, this will get the repub­li­can push back. Keisha Lance Bot­toms run­ning for gov­er­nor, she is launch­ing her PAC called Georgia’s Promise. Keisha Lance Bot­toms last job was in the Biden admin­is­tra­tion. Why would the AJC leave out her posi­tion in the Biden admin­is­tra­tion that Trump has just fired her from. 
• The demo­c­ra­t­ic leg­isla­tive cam­paign com­mit­tee released its tar­get map for the 2026 midterms on Tues­day. It iden­ti­fied the GA house as a pow­er build­ing cham­ber of the democ­rats to gain seats on the path to a new major­i­ty by 2030. Keep in mind the GOP has lost 19 state house seats, 5 state sen­ate seats, and 2 US sen­ate seats in 5 years. The repub­li­cans hold the house by a 9 seat major­i­ty. Repub­li­cans don’t have a path or struc­ture because we have grifter team A here and team here to split the par­ty and gifter team over here. Josh McK­oon doesn’t have the abil­i­ty to put a plan in place.  Repub­li­cans in Geor­gia are too busy lis­ten­ing and fol­low­ing gifters and haters. 
• Josh McK­oon is a very bad man, he is a false leader. He did not con­tribute to the Trump win in Geor­gia. He can­not do the job.