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Trump's Pick for Georgia Governor Loses
by /u/unital_subalgebra | 108 comments | 2026-06-17T01:41:24+00:00 Central
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| /u/95Daphne And this may well have killed the special session for 2028 redistricting to boot as well. |
| /u/Sea_Cupcake_801 Trump lost this one and it might cost Republicans a power grab in 2028 |
| /u/entropicdrift They're still winning out on redistricting (nationwide) by a wide margin, in part because the Supreme Court Okayed racial discrimination when redistricting |
| /u/CPUsCantDoNothing We literally cannot let them take our democracy. We cannot accept the results. |
| /u/silvertealio It's all on the table this November. Last chance to at least slow the train wreck. |
| /u/Individual-Schemes We can try to sway people to vote Blue. These redistricted districts have the ability to vote however they want. They just have to vote Blue. Look into "Field Team 6" or other orgs that make it really easy to volunteer to help promote democratic election processes. You can write postcards, send texts, or a bunch of other shit. |
| /u/Ih8rice I think it would be easier to persuade them not to vote than to vote blue. Those types of people are normally the straight ticket types. |
| /u/DukeOfGeek Jackson is a trumpo imitating billionaire and will probably win. He is even worse than the current Rethug chud, Kemp. Kemp will probably be a Senator someday. We are under attack. |
| /u/CPUsCantDoNothing Then urge your political leadership to take the data regarding election tampering seriously. |
| /u/Tx_1LE lmao, good luck with that |
| /u/matzevoje What democracy? 😂 |
| /u/Ironlion45 When people don't feel like they can cast ballets, they'll cast bullets instead. Autocrats know this; that's why they continue to have pretend elections and force everybody to vote for them, with a gun to the head if necessary. Then he's made you complicit in the lie, and you're less likely to rebel. |
| /u/Deep-Minimum7837 We still have the midterms to look forward to. With a shitload of actually progressive candidates running, people will have a good reason to get out and vote. Trump picks are becoming extremely unpopular, and the GOP base is so captured with advertising. They can't field any good anti-MAGA moderate campaigns without being labeled as a globalist RINO |
| /u/Ironlion45 Both the candidates sound nearly like clones of each other. Both are populist windbags. The missing ingredient is going to be a likeable Democrat candidate that will attract the leftist vote while not scaring away the "moderates" who are just disillusioned with maga insanity. The trouble is, we don't have any such animal. Because those moderates are still assholes. They won't vote for anyone who's gay black or a woman, for example, no matter what. |
| /u/Delicious-Deer-7885 yeah you can only push a legal power grab so far before the downstream consequences completely stall you out |
| /u/Due-Abies2925 Losing that kind of leverage can change a lot of plans pretty quickly especially with something as strategic as redistricting |
| /u/bbb26782 The Republicans in the state legislature are pretty split on it. Jones was pushing it as a campaign promise, but he's now a lame duck with limited political capital. |
| /u/WarlockEngineer That being said, Jackson is still a piece of shit |
| /u/TextIndependent8298 And a billionaire which I did not know. I'm sick of this shit. |
| /u/imselfinnit Healthcare Billionaire who's ad's start out saying "Like President Trump, Rick Jackson doesn't owe anybody, anything". |
| /u/Beautiful_Reporter50 As I am in my 7th month of waiting for approval for physical therapy from my Medicare Blue Cross Blue shield insurance I don't take too kindly to health care billionaires |
| /u/Beautiful_Reporter50 I have to talk really nicely because the last time I made a comment straight from the heart I got banned for 3 days |
| /u/Basquebadboy He owes everything he has, to all the workers that laborerd for his fortune. |
| /u/PM_ME_YOUR_LEFT_IRIS "Departed or Deported" |
| /u/DarienKane Yeah let's threathen to kill people as a campaign plank. |
| /u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace He's utter fucking scum and gonna destroy what is left of the state |
| /u/tapwater86 Well of course he is, he's a republican |
| /u/Upstairs-Egg Oh thank God I'll take all the good news I can get this week |
| /u/sturgill_homme Me, every week since the second term started |
| /u/ctguy54 Where are the "It was rigged" statements? |
| /u/mishap1 Yes but only this as his senate pick in the primary won. |
| /u/No-Bother-7699 Collins is such a horrible person and there are so many things Ossoff can use for attack ads. |
| /u/Den710nuggets Damn i now remember all of those ads I got for Ossoff about how he was up for election and was requesting funding "for a pivotal battle in Georgia" multiple months ago. Crazy how time be movin. Hopefully he can pull it out. I am poor so no I did not donate but I do hope he wins lol. |
| /u/crimsonhues You'd think Democrats would create bold attack ads, but no. |
| /u/OMGMianiteS3Official He just needs them to find 11,780 votes |
| /u/flyinghairball And I'm sure they will need a hand recount and then a recount of the recount, followed by a recount of the recount's recount until the desired outcome is achieved |
| /u/rantmb331 Trump's in France. It isn't 3am there yet. |
| /u/bumblebeerose It's 3.30am in the UK right now which means it's 4.30am in France. He'll probably start mouthing off at around 8am UK time as that's around 3am in Florida time |
| /u/PJballa34 Yeah he needs to get to his wee morning shit posting tirade to find out. |
| /u/Deodorized It takes time for parrots to learn new phrases off the TV. Give it another 12 hours. |
| /u/DragonPup Trump is going to simultaneously claimed it was rigged, but he didn't actually know Burt Jones. |
| /u/Jackpancake FYI for Governor Voting turnout. Republican: 933,696 +1500 estimate remaining Democrat: 1,081,038 + 6500 estimated remaining |
| /u/Perpetvated still that many people voting for republican is just mind blowing. are they not seeing the destructions these two years. what has gotten better so far? |
| /u/_SimpleRip Republicanism is a religion to people |
| /u/Canuck-In-TO It's more like a disease. |
| /u/FlyingBike All three can be spread through close contact and frequently make people sick, and are best fixed with a dose of well-applied rational thinking. Sounds like Republicanism, religion, and disease are all pretty analogous |
| /u/Everyoneheresamoron Who do you think told them to vote that way? Their pastors. I don't know a single (baptist) church that hasn't recommended a candidate, you literally have hundreds of voters in an almost trance every Sunday. |
| /u/fuckuspezforreal then they should be losing their tax exempt status, no? |
| /u/Everyoneheresamoron In theory, sure. In practice, there's no hard record of any recommendation, and no one willing to crack down on the blatant political meddling. No one wants to go after the institutions that help them get elected, nor go after the institutions that would claim political persecution. It'd be suicide for any side. |
| /u/GoochStubble When you only have 2 choices, and a lot of people are single issue voters, ppl can justify either option |
| /u/MourningRIF Is disgusting. They treat their political affiliations with higher moral conviction than their wedding vows. They would cheat on their spouse, but they would never cheat on their party. I really don't understand having loyalty to either party, but especially not the one who is actively and intentionally harming you. Talk about an abusive relationship... |
| /u/imselfinnit One step back for them is a win if it means 10 steps back for others. Gotta grease that pole. |
| /u/BazziteIsCoolYouKnow They see minorities suffer and that is enough for them. Go to ask conservatives. They are happy with ice. They cheer at the attack on Minneapolis |
| /u/micro102 And child r*pe. They just keep voting for people who protect it, and ousting people like Massie who wanted the Epstein files released. Truly the worse of us. |
| /u/Destithen are they not seeing the destructions these two years No. Major news media outlets are largely conservative owned. People are being fed bullshit and don't know it. |
| /u/LiteraCanna They don't. Working with a guy this week from Tennessee that straight up says democrats are lock step against anything republican. (He thinks this is bad) At lunch today, he was praising Trump for ending the war and bringing gas prices down. Also claims to be "right down the middle".. yeah, okay buddy. |
| /u/fre3k We have open primaries and many of us live in districts where a republican is pretty much guaranteed to win so we vote for the least crazy republican as a form of damage control. You can't just assume that everyone voting republican in the primaries are straight red voters. |
| /u/TornInfinity They are still buying their GOP rhetoric that this is still Biden's fault. They always demand instant improvement when a Democrat is in charge, but give all the grace in the world to the Republican President. As other's have said, they are in a cult at this point. GOP can do no wrong, under any circumstances. If a Republican does something obviously bad, it's still somehow a Democrats or leftists fault. I hate here, truly. But I actually do love my country and want to see it get out of this mess, but I don't see that happening when almost half the voting population is still supporting this crap. |
| /u/WanderingFrogman My mother and her friend registered as republican just to vote against trump's pick. It's defeatist reasoning from a life time of red Georgia, so a significant portion of them may be "dems in disguise". |
| /u/Clownsinmypantz whenever I wonder why I think about the reading and education level in this country and in some of these states and that fills in alot of the whys for me, besides hatred and bigotry ofc |
| /u/BlackberryPi7 They're Republicans. They're morons. It's very hard to teach an idiot if they are too stupid to understand what they're being taught, even if it's hammered into them. |
| /u/Foodspec That's because they get their "news" from the likes of Benny Johnson. They're believing what they're told, at face value, to fit in with the group |
| /u/GotMoFans People identify the Republican Party as the party for white people and they treat it more like sports fandom than they treat it like finding people who will do the most to improve their lives. It's especially bad for poor and working class white people who support a GOP that makes things harder for their lives. |
| /u/voodoodahl Red states are third world shit holes and they get even more red with time even though it's clear Republicans can't govern. |
| /u/RunnyTinkles I can only hope we keep this momentum into November. Genuinely can't fathom a Georgia where a billionaire is our governor. |
| /u/Higgins1st His ads are disturbing. |
| /u/osiris0413 Have you seen the ones being run by Paxton in Texas? Or his official account posts on Twitter? It's literally "my opponent is trans" (note: his opponent is a cisgender man). I'd say the mask is slipping but it's like... on the floor being stepped on |
| /u/freylaverse They were saying Talarico has six genders. Could they have misheard the term "cisgender" as "six-gendered"? Would be one of the wildest misinterpretations. |
| /u/crimsonhues Wish Talarico ran ads calling Paxton a pedo? We go low if they go low. These bastards deserve it |
| /u/Commercial-Web751 Turnout numbers can tell a pretty different story than just looking at who won especially when the margins are close |
| /u/sokkarockedya It can, but so many more people don't vote in primaries. We'll see what happens during the general. Just get out there and vote! |
| /u/Illustrious_Sea_962 HOW IS THIS SHIT STILL SO FUCKING CLOSE GODAMDSMN FICJING MORONS |
| /u/euxneks This is still so appallingly close. What a shitshow the USA is. |
| /u/Top1CmntrsAreLosers Couldn't be more meaningless. I primary voted republican and will vote democrat. |
| /u/Bebopo90 I think you don't know the meaning of the word "meaningless". The numbers may not be as meaningful as they seem, but they're far from meaningless. |
| /u/hunterghostal The other choice is still ass: a billionaire who donated a mil to Trump and calls equality "communism." It isn't as much of a win as the article acts. |
| /u/ThrasheRex Yup. A billionaire trying to have a hand in politics is still a bad thing. |
| /u/DreadfulRauw Yeah, as a Democrat I'd still rather have Jones. Jackson is completely vile in a hateful way. Jones is just a shitty politician. |
| /u/headphase I've generically sequenced a new breed of leopard which, instead of eating faces, merely drills a neat hole in the back of your skull and sucks your brain through a straw like a piña colada! Our deaths will now be respectful and festive! |
| /u/barbieq68 Are we going to get a deluge of news articles proclaiming how Trumps grip on the party is slipping? |
| /u/Few-Ad7795 The Daily Beast has about 25 of them ready to go. |
| /u/mcamarra Trump has TOTAL MELTDOWN as Georgia primary voter SLAM the president in EPIC TAKEDOWN |
| /u/zbud If Michael Bay were a political title. |
| /u/boli99 needs more exploding helicopters to be a Michael Bay headline. |
| /u/cmcdonald22 They fucking love Humiliated. |
| /u/crimsonhues lol...yep they do. So predictable |
| /u/HandSack135 Slammed and reckoned |
| /u/hagcel Smothered, covered, chunked, diced, capped, peppered and topped! I really need to make a quick browser plugin to replace Daily Beast's adjectives with waffle house orders. |
| /u/CrissBliss I wish Reddit would quit posting their articles. |
| /u/BurmeciaWillSurvive I eventually just blocked the domain on reddit because it was exhausting lmao |
| /u/BurmeciaWillSurvive In my app it's long-press -> filter -> subreddit or domain.com, obviously not reddit but the domain here's an example with the USA TODAY domain I just grabbed off of the first post I saw |
| /u/BurmeciaWillSurvive In my app it's long press, filter, select domain. Here's an example I just snagged using USA TODAY as the example to block. each app is different though |
| /u/pagesid3 But only if you pay up! |
| /u/BurmeciaWillSurvive My reddit feed was so greatly improved by just blocking their domain lol |
| /u/Hi_Im_Dadbot They're totally turning against him this time. For reals. |
| /u/JohnNDenver I saw a poll of rural voters - "only" 50% approval rating with 48% disapproval. |
| /u/VLHACS His endorsed candidates usually win 95%+ of the time since 2020. It's not news. But it's usually for incumbent candidates, in deep red districts. But even in races where his endorsed candidate is going against an incumbent, in more competitive districs, it is still a incredibly strong 75-80%. Of course, whether or not this actually helps the GOP in November remains to be seen. Democrat turnout has been much higher than the GOPs this cycle, and pushing even further right candidates into the race will further alienate independents. |
| /u/archronin Yes, cause there's money from clicks from the liberal masses starving for good news. |
| /u/Deep-Minimum7837 His grip on the party will not loosen until he dies. His grip on the voters, however, has been slipping every day. 2026 has been a truly disastrous year for MAGA. The tariffs exacerbated the affordability crisis, and just as things were slightly recovering from that, he launches a world-famous "three day military operation" in Iran that's still going on months later. His latest peace deal includes 300 billion fucking dollars to rebuilding the infrastructure we just spent 300 billion dollars destroying. The craziest part is that there are actual progressive lefties running for office this midterm. The DNC could have dumped shitloads of money into zionist stooges and revolving door villains that will sacrifice whatever future political career they have to further Israel's expansionist goals, but instead we're getting anti-zionists who want to fix the shit the establishment has broken over the last 20 years. |
| /u/Original-Rush139 We got him this time! |
| /u/Ok-Fan1202 Nah, they'll just spin it as a fluke or blame the candidate for not being loyal enough. The narrative shifts faster than a politician at a town hall. |
| /u/Signal_Minimum8509 Unfortunately Rick Jackson will also be happy to gargle Trump's balls, Burt was just first in line |
| /u/minyhumancalc As a Georgia resident, I genuinely thought Rick Jackson was the trump nomination. He's so awful he makes Burt look moderate, which is tragic |
| /u/startinearly Yep. And 5 more months of his awful commercials. |
| /u/Kevin-W Just wait until we hear everyday "KLB abandoned Georgia!" |
| /u/WetFinsFine can we have more of this please (thank you for your attention to this matter) |
| /u/Abadleftankle >PRESIDENT WET F. FINE |