Republicans in Georgia should be entering 2026 with one mission: remove Democrat Jon Ossoff from the Senate and help secure a rock-solid GOP majority. Instead, the party is suddenly consumed with an internal explosion—and the person striking the match isn’t a Democrat. It’s Governor Brian Kemp.
What should have been a united march toward one of the most vulnerable Democrat Senate seats in the nation has now turned into a civil war inside the GOP establishment. And it all began the moment Kemp unleashed an attack ad that didn’t just miss the mark—it boomeranged right back at him.
At a time when Republicans ought to be focused on Ossoff’s narrow 1.2% victory in 2021 and his glaring vulnerabilities in 2026, Kemp instead launched a political grenade at two sitting GOP congressmen. A group tied to the governor ran an ad accusing Reps. Mike Collins and Buddy Carter of helping “shut down the government” alongside Jon Ossoff.
The ad, pushing Kemp-backed candidate and former Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley as the “outsider,” infuriated conservatives immediately. Not only did the ad echo Democrat messaging—it did so while ignoring the actual cause of the 43-day shutdown.
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