Trump Critical Raffensperger launches the Governor’s campaign of Georgia 2026

The Secretary of State of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, who rejected President Donald Trump of President Donald Trump to cancel the results of the 2020 presidential election in the key state of the southeast battlefield, launched a republican offer of 2026 for the governor.

The announcement of Raffensperger on Wednesday adds more drama to a primary of governor of the GOP already fuel between the Lieutenant-Governor Burt Jones and the Attorney General of the State Chris Carr.

And although Raffensperger has a long history as a conservative republican, he will probably be again in the face of Trump’s contempt, who approved Jones last month for the governor.

“I am a conservative republican, and I am ready to make difficult decisions. I am the law and the Constitution, and I will always do the right thing for Georgia whatever happens,” said RéfensPerger in a campaign launch video. “As governor, I will deliver a daring conservative agenda and strengthen Georgia even stronger.”

The Republican who became Democrat launched the governor of Georgia

The Secretary of State of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, announced his republican candidacy in 2026 for the governor. (Photo / ben Gray) file)

The order of the day of Raffensperger includes a thrust to eliminate state income tax, the ceiling of land taxes for the elderly, the repeal of taxes and the costs of closing the costs of house buyers, widening tax credits for the choice of parental schools, prohibiting drugs that block the puberty of affirmative care and purge “breeding programs” schools.

A declaration of his campaign also stressed that Raffensperger is committed “to work alongside President Donald Trump and Congress leaders to bring jobs in Georgia, to expel criminal foreigners and restore public order in state communities”.

The 70 -year -old engineering entrepreneur, as well as Republican Governor Brian Kemp, refused to help Trump as the president was trying to reverse the president of President Joe Biden in 2020 in Georgia.

The most vulnerable republican governor in 2026 launched a re -election offer

Trump seemed to put pressure on a refensions in early January 2020 when the president urged Refensperger to “find” enough votes to upset Biden’s victory. Raffensperger told Trump at the time that his data was false and that “we think our figures were correct”.

It earned Trump’s contempt, and he supported the Republican primary challenges against Kemp and reflected when they both ran to re -election in 2022.

The Republican Governor Brian Kemp de Georgie speaks with Fox News Digital during his re -election campaign in 2022. He was limited to term and can no longer run in 2026. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox News)

But Kemp and Raffensperger ended up easily overcoming the main challengers supported by Trump on the way to general electoral victories.

Kevin Donohoe of the Association of Democratic Governors, pointing to the launch of the Raffensperger’s campaign in 2026, argued that he “injects a new level of chaos into what was already a disorderly primary – and is bad news for Burt Jones and Chris Carr”.

The announcement of Raffensperger came the day when former Republican lieutenant Geoff Duncan launched a democratic campaign for the governor of Georgia, in the race to succeed Kemp, who is limited in the long term.

Duncan, who, as a Lieutenant-Governor, was also a vocal critic of the GOP of the repeated efforts of Trump to cancel his defeat in 2020 in Georgia, decided not to ask for re-election in 2022.

Former Lieutenant-Governor Geoff Duncan de Georgia announces his democratic candidacy for the governor on Tuesday. (Getty Images)

Duncan approved Biden in the 2024 presidential race and then supported the president of the time, Kamala Harris, after replacing Biden at the top of the Democrats ticket in 2024. Duncan took the floor in a high -level speech at National Democratic Convention in Chicago last summer. Earlier this summer, he announced that he had changed party and became a democrat.

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Duncan has joined a democratic primary domain which already includes the former mayor of Atlanta, Keisha launches Bottoms, the former CEO of the county of Dekalb, Mike Thurmond, and the former senator Jason Esteves.

While Georgia was once on the right, it became a battlefield of the key general elections. But the Republicans have won all state governors competitions since 2002.