Former football coach Derek DOOLEY announces an offer from the Georgia Senate for 2026

There is a new republican candidate who jumped in one of the races in the most crucial Senate of the mid-term elections in 2026.

Former longtime football coach Derek Doley said his original references, targeted Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia and presented his support to President Donald Trump when he declared his candidacy on Monday.

“I run because our condition needs a new leadership in Washington DC, and professional politicians like Jon Ossoff are the problem,” Dooley said in a statement and a video when he launched his campaign.

Dooley argued that “our state has no voice in the American Senate which reflects the values of Georgia because Oossoff is more anxious to protect its own political future, to oppose all that the Trump administration works to accomplish and vote several times with the extreme left”.

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And he promised that if he was elected to the Senate, “I will work with President Trump to implement his program, support his administration and advance our country”.

The Governor of the popular GOP transmitted an offer from the Senate in 2026

The race for the Senate in Georgia is crucial for the Republicans aimed at extending their current majority of the Senate of 53-47, while they consider Ossoff, which presents itself to a re-election in a state of battlefield that Trump narrowly continued in the presidential competition of last year, as the most vulnerable democrat in the midst of next year.

The Republicans consider Senator Jon Ossoff as the most vulnerable democrat presenting himself to re-election during the mid-term elections of 2026. (AP)

DOOLEY, who is the son of the legendary football coach at the University of Georgia, Vince DOLEY, was a university football player who was then head coach at the University of Louisiana technology and at the University of Tennessee as well as as an assistant coach at the National Football League.

Although it is its first execution for the public service, republican sources confirm to Fox News that he should have the approval of Governor Brian Kemp, the popular conservative republican governor of Georgia with two terms.

Dooley becomes the third major republican candidate currently in the Senate race in Georgia.

Derek DOOLEY, a former longtime football coach and professional football, said his candidacy for republican appointment in the Senate in Georgia on Monday. (Derek DOOLEY campaign)

In two mandates Rep. Mike Collins, A businessman who founded a trucking company which represents a large band of urban, suburban and rural areas between Atlanta and Augusta, announced his candidacy a week ago. Collins, an ally of Trump and a supporter of the house, presented his support for the president when he launched a campaign.

And the representative Buddy Carter, who for a decade has represented a district of coastal Georgia, launched a Senate campaign in the spring. He also courts the president’s support.

Dooley seemed to take a blow to his two rivals for the appointment, saying “I am not part of the political establishment, and I did not spend my life climbing the political scale of the DC.”

He promised that he “flows to put Georgia first and bring common sense to Georgian DCs know that organic men should not play in female sports, people who work lasted more of their money, and opening our borders makes us less safe.”

Dooley is a longtime friend of Kemp, and two of the main political advisers of the governor help Dooley with his race in the Senate.

The TERM Limited Kemp, which was strongly recruited by the national Republicans to face Ossoff but which, earlier this year, was adopted at the launch of its own Senate campaign in 2026, clearly said in recent days that it would support Dooley, familiar sources have confirmed to Fox News.

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp was interviewed by Fox News Digital at a meeting of the association of republican governors in Washington DC on February 20, 2025. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)

Meanwhile, sources in Trump’s political orbit and republican sources in Georgia have confirmed to Fox News that there was an agreement between the president’s political operation and the Kemp political team that they would work together to find a candidate that they could all unify to take Ossoff in the Senate race.

These sources also confirmed that Kemp and Trump – the final manufacturer of GOP policy – gathered last month to discuss the Senate race in Georgia.

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But when the governor launched the name of the former football coach of the University of Tennessee, Derek Dooley, a source close to the president’s political team said “they were told to withdraw because the Trump team was not ready to move forward on anyone.”

Donald Trump shakes hands with the Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp, after talking about a temporary rescue refuge while visiting the areas affected by Hurricane Helene, Friday October 4, 2024, in Evans, GA. (AP photo / Evan VUCCI)

And when Kemp and his team progressed with Dooley, it upset Trump’s advisers, who, according to sources, were “already quite annoyed” that Kemp had adopted earlier this year to face Ossoff in the race for the Senate.

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“We had an agreement to work together,” said a political source from Trump Orbit Trump. “Kemp came out alone – who frustrated and annoyed Trump Orbit.”

But a source close to the governor told Fox News that he was not true in fact that they were told to retire on Doley. And the source added that Kemp meant what he said that he wanted to work with the president and his team and who stays like this.