Republican who defied Trump over 2020 election results launches battleground state governor bid
Georgian Foreign Minister Brad Rafensperger launched a 2026 Republican proposal for the governor, which rejected President Donald Trump to overthrow the 2020 presidential election results in the Southeast Battleground state.
Rafensperger’s announcement on Wednesday, Lieutenant Gov. Burt Jones and State Chief Public Prosecutor Chris Carr add more drama to the primary primary primary.
Although Rafensperger has a long history as a conservative Republican, Trump, who approved Jones for the governor last month, will once again confront his disdain.
“I’m a conservative republican and I’m ready to make difficult decisions. I’m obeying the law and the constitution, and no matter what, I will always do the right thing for Georgia,” Rafensperger said in a campaign launch video. “As the governor, I will give a bold conservative agenda and build Georgia even stronger.”
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Rafensperger’s agenda includes the prohibition of drugs that liquidate drugs from schools that prevent tax loans for the selection of parental schools, to remove tax loans for the selection of parental school, to remove tax loans for the selection of the school, to limit real estate taxes for the elderly, to limit real estate taxes for the elderly.
In a statement from the campaign, Rafensperger said, “Return to Georgia with President Donald Trump and congress leaders, deporting penalty aliens, and restoring the law and order in the communities in the state”.
Now 70 -year -old engineering entrepreneur, Republican Gov. Together with Brian Kemp, the President refused to help Trump while trying to reversed President Joe Biden’s Jilet-Thin in Georgia.
The most vulnerable Republican Governor in 2026 launched the election proposal again
Trump, President Rafensperger to raise enough votes to raise the victory of Biden “when he wanted to call Rafensperger at the beginning of January 2020. Raffensperger, Trump’s data is wrong and” We believe that our numbers are correct, “he said.
This won the president of the formary president at that time, and Trump supported Republican primary challenges against Kemp and Rafensperger when they ran for the re -election in 2022.
However, Kemp and Rafensperger easily defeated the primary rivals with Trump on the way to the general election victories.
The Democratic Governors Association’s Kevin Donohoe points to the launch of Rafensperger’s 2026 campaign, “already injected a new chaos into a scattered principle and bad news for Burt Jones and Chris Carr.”
Rafensperger’s announcement came after the former Republican Lieutenant Govoff Duncan launched a democratic campaign for the governor of Georgia in the race to achieve Kemp, which was limited to the period.
As Lieutenant Governor, Duncan, a vocal GOP critic of Trump’s efforts to overthrow the loss of 2020 in Georgia, decided against re -election in 2022.
Duncan approved Biden in the 2024 presidential race and then supported President Kamala Harris after he took his place on Biden on the top of the 2024 tickets of the Democrats. Duncan spoke in a high -profile speech. Democratic national contract In Chicago last summer. He announced that he changed parties and was a democrat in early this summer.
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Duncan, former Mayor of Atlanta Keisha Lance Bottoms, former Dekalb District CEO Mike Thurmond and Old State Sen. Joined the democratic primary area including Jason Esteves.
Although Georgia was once right, it became an important general election warfare. However, the Republicans have won every Guernatorial competition in the state since 2002.
