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The winner will face Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, who Democrats see as a rising star in their party and Republicans see as the most vulnerable sitting Democrat in the Senate.
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The GOP Senate primary was largely a three-way race between Collins, Dooley, the son of legendary University of Georgia football coach Vince Dooley, and Rep. Buddy Carter. President Donald Trump did not make an endorsement in the race.
Besides the Senate race, there were also competitive Republican and Democratic primaries for Georgia governor to replace term-limited GOP Gov. Brian Kemp.
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In the Republican primary for governor, Trump-endorsed Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and billionaire businessman Rick Jackson will head to a June 16 runoff in the Republican primary, ABC News projects.
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The Republican primary for Georgia governor was defined by more than $100 million in spending, as well as fierce attack ads between the two front-runners in the race that dominated Georgia’s airwaves. According to AdImpact, the Georgia primary for governor was the third-most expensive gubernatorial primary on record. This race is a major test of Trump’s political power in Georgia. The president hosted a tele-rally earlier this month for Jones, a longtime Trump loyalist.
But even with the president’s endorsement and a high-profile position as current lieutenant governor, Jones was not able to shake Jackson, who has spent over $80 million of his own money in the race promoting his rags-to-riches story of growing up in foster care and attack ads that dragged Jones through the mud.
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Jones, the heir to his family's business empire, spent tens of millions of dollars on ads dragging Jackson right back.
Also running for the Republican nomination but failing to advance were Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr and Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who gained national attention for contesting Trump's claims of election fraud in 2020.
On the Democratic side, former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms was projected to win the Democratic nomination for governor, avoiding a runoff.
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Bottoms entered the race with the greatest name recognition and boasted high-profile endorsements. Bottoms, who served in the Biden administration as Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, was endorsed by former President Joe Biden -- his first endorsement in the 2026 midterm cycle.
Other candidates included former DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond, former Republican Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan and former Georgia state Sen. Jason Esteves.
Despite Democratic enthusiasm driven by dissatisfaction with Trump’s policies and the economic impact of the war in Iran, Bottoms may not face an easy road ahead.
A Democrat has not been elected governor of Georgia since 1998.
The Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais limiting the Voting Rights Act and paving the way for new Republican-led redistricting opportunities has raised the stakes in the governor race. Republicans in Georgia have already indicated their desire to draw new maps based on the Callais decision, and a Democrat in the governor’s office could mean veto power against any maps passed by a GOP-controlled state legislature.
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