The Georga Governor Brian Kemp will not run against Ossoff for the US Senate

The governor said he said President Donald Trump and Senate Republican that he would make sure that we “have a strong Republican candidate who can win next to November, and ultimately a conservative voice in the US Senate, who will put the hard -working Georgian in the first place”.

“I am confident that we will be united in these important efforts,” said Kemp, who could use a nationwide political network and an extensive fundraising machine behind another contender.

“And I look forward to choosing the next generation of guides here in the Peach state up and down, which will keep our state and our nation in the right direction in 2026 and beyond.”

Although some allies of the second republican doubted that he would run on him, the uncertainty solidified the race against Ossoff, which the Republicans see as one of the most endangered incumbent on the ballot next year.

A new AJC survey reinforced why Kemp was recruited so strongly. He achieved an approval rate of 60% and was the only republican of four in the survey that was in a hypothetical matchup with an ossoff neck and neck.

With Kemp on the edge, there is now a scramble that will appear as a GOP candidate in a race that could depend on Trump, as recent surveys show that support in Georgia is eroded for his agenda.

The decision also leaves the possibility of a future offer of the 61-year-old Republican open For the White House. The governor, who cannot search for a third term, wants to keep his political options open, even if he stays away from a Senate campaign.

The top republicans made it clear that they were waiting for Kemp’s decision before they started their own offers. Now a chain reaction is expected. Some likely competitors have already hired helpers, thrown donors, taken Trump consultants and taken other calm steps to create the basis for a campaign. Formal announcements could come quickly.

Credit: Jenni Girtman

Credit: Jenni Girtman

US representative. Buddy Carter, Mike Collins, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rich McCormick; Insurance commissioner John King; And Foreign Minister Brad Raffensperger are among the potential candidates.

But no one has Kemp’s combination of donation actions, name detection, Broad GOP support and crossover attraction. And some Republicans are already annoyed by an untidy GOP-Free-for-all-in particular if Greene, a polarizing trump loyalist, entered a race that could be decided by the voters in the middle of the street.

They are also cautious before a repetition of 2022, when the undesigned football legend Herschel Walker fought for GOP nomination to collapse against the democratic US Senator Raphael Warnock.

The AJC survey showed that Ossoff holds command of three more prominent GOP personalities from the entire political spectrum: Greene, King and Raffensperger.

Meanwhile, Ossoff worked aggressively to support his support from reliable Democrats and the swing voters who were able to decide the race. He is the only incumbent democrat of the Senate who will run for re -election in a won state of Trump next year, which turns him into a top -gop goal in 2026 -something in which he lends himself into donation files.

The first time democrat’s democrat helped orchestrating the fall of the US representative of Nikema Williams as chair of the Democratic Party, hoping to strengthen the organization’s financial firepower in the first three months of the year.

He reflects Democrats who demand a confrontational approach. He also concentrated his campaign message on the opposition against Trump and his agenda, which is distributed by the government, which reflects the demands of the base of his party.

In a town hall in Cobb County last month, Ossoff Trump’s deep cuts unloaded into the centers based in Atlanta for the control and prevention of diseases. During an earlier rally in Atlanta, he swore to fight Trump’s standing management and explained that “Georgia will bow to the king”.

The AJC survey shows Ossoff with a solid level of cheapness of 48%, whereby the space is to grow. Although about a third disapproved of how he deals with his US Senate job, almost 1 of 5 say that they have no opinion yet.

The same survey indicates that Ossoff is largely shielded from the internal counter reaction of the national democrats. About 15% of liberal disapproving his performance – half of the proportion that the Democratic Party itself looks at.

Credit: Jenni Girtman for the AJC

Credit: Jenni Girtman for the AJC

However, it will also be exposed to mighty cross streams in Georgia’s changing political landscape. Ossoff’s victory of Ossoff 2021 and Warnock has thrown control of the US Senate and marked a climax for Georgia Democrats.

Since then, the Republicans have been in the upswing. Warnock demolished Walker in 2022 to secure a full term, but the GOP swept every other nationwide race this year – and Trump took Georgia back in 2024 after he had lost it just four years earlier.

“Another coordination in the Senate”

Kemp’s decision is a massive blow for Republicans who absolutely want to avoid what could be harmful to the nomination of the party.

The US Senator Tim Scott, the head of the Senate’s GOP campaign arm, called Kemp his “Rekrut No. 1”. The majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, used him several times, including an April meeting in Atlanta.

And each of the potential GOP candidates in Georgia asked him publicly to challenge the 38-year-old Democrat, who became known for the first time with his close defeat in a special election in 2017 in the USA in Atlanta in Atlanta.

Credit: Nathan Posner for the AJC

Credit: Nathan Posner for the AJC

“I support the design of the Kemp movement. Our governor can win this seat,” said Collins recently. “But if he takes a passport, I will speak to President Trump and see who he needs us to make sure he has a further coordination in the Senate.”

A new phase

The public recruitment efforts were a remarkable sign for Kemp’s political turn. Trump and his allies accuse Kemp and other GOP officials for the defeat of Trump in 2020 in Georgia and in 2022 supported him the challenge of the former US senator David Perdue against him.

But Kemp headed Perdue in the GOP primary school and defeated the Democrat Stacey Abrams a second time and cemented himself as a national GOP figure.

The feud with Trump, who threatened to derail his career, is now in retrospect. The ceasefire you reached last year and Kemp’s profile grew with his choice last year to lead the Republican Governors Association. In a sign of the improvement relationship, officials say that the governor’s conversation with Trump about his decision on Monday was warm and productive.

The latest AJC survey showed that Kemp’s high approval assessment was heated by the support of Republicans and independent and favorable checks of about a third of the Democrats.

And he has moved his political punch in this legislative period to adopt a revision of Georgia’s legal system to limit complaints and to prove the Big Jury Awards.

But Ossoff’s allies saw that Kemp is still susceptible. When he was running, they planned Tirelessly connect him to Trump, who had a 43% approval in the latest AJC survey. They were also confident that his popularity would take a blow as soon as he pulled the flood from democratic attacks that would certainly go hand in hand with a Senate campaign.

With Kemp from the race, Republican jockeying will only intensify. King developed as a voice defender of Trump’s tariffs, while Carter turned his heads by introducing a measure to enable the president to control the Greenland and to rename them “red, white and Blueland”.

And Collins is one of the most aggressive. His allies have already tried to win Trump’s confirmation, and he was a constant in political events in Georgia, including a weekend rally in which hundreds of followers moved.

“Everything Jon Ossoff wants to talk about is resistance and charges by President Trump,” said Collin’s Republican at the Covington event. “Everything I want to talk about is to deliver results that make our country great again.”