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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signs legislation into law addressing eduction and school safety policies at the state Capitol on Monday, April 28, 2025, in Atlanta. (Matthew Pearson/WABE via AP)

Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp won’t run for US Senate seat in 2026 against Democrat Jon Ossoff

Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp won’t run for Senate in 2026 against Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff. Kemp had long been at the top of the GOP’s wish list to challenge Ossoff.
 
Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., poses for a portrait during an event at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Saturday, April 26, 2025, in Marietta, Ga. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Balancing Trump criticism and bipartisanship, Democrat Jon Ossoff walks a fine line in Georgia

 
Charlie Bailey speaks in Atlanta on Saturday, May 5, 2025, during a meeting in which he was elected chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia, (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

Newly elected chair of Georgia Democrats says party hasn’t been fighting enough

 
Former Sen. David Perdue speaks during a gubernatorial Republican primary debate, Sunday, May 1, 2022, in Atlanta. Senate has confirmed Perdue as ambassador to China, just as the U.S. and China are locked in a tariff showdown that threatens to redefine diplomatic relations between the world's two largest economies. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Senate confirms former Sen. David Perdue as Trump’s US ambassador to China amid tariff showdown

 
Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., poses for a portrait during an event at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Saturday, April 26, 2025, in Marietta, Ga. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff says Trump’s ‘chaos and uncertainty’ hurts the economy

 

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Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff says Trump’s ‘chaos and uncertainty’ hurts the economy

Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia says President Donald Trump’s unsettled economic policy is the biggest problem facing his state. Ossoff is getting ready for an expected re-election bid in 2026. (AP Video: Sharon Johnson)
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Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp says he won’t run for US Senate seat in 2026 against Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff

 
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at a news conference in Dallas, June 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

In the Texas GOP Senate primary, Paxton and Cornyn trade early attacks

 
Rep. Nikema Williams, D-Ga., speaks during an election night event for Democratic candidate for Georgia Governor Stacey Abrams in Atlanta on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Ben Gray, file)

Rep. Nikema Williams resigns from her role as chair of Georgia’s Democratic Party

 
President Donald Trump gestures as he departs a reception celebrating Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House, Monday, March 24, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump downplays national security team texting military operation plan on Signal as a minor ‘glitch’

 
U.S. Sens. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., left, and Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., wave to the crowd during a Rally for our Republic gathering, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff vows defiance to Trump ahead of 2026 election

 
U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen speaks as she participates in a panel discussion during the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

In a blow to Democrats, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen will not seek reelection in New Hampshire

 
Kelly Loeffler, President Donald Trump's choice to be the administrator of the Small Business Administration, appears before the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee for her confirmation hearing at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Senate confirms Kelly Loeffler, former Georgia senator, to lead Small Business Administration

 
Gov. Brian Kemp delivers the state of the state address in the House of Representatives at the Georgia Capitol, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, in Atlanta. (Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp wants to again speed up income tax cuts

 
The flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter lies in state during a ceremony in the Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, in Washington. Carter died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

Jimmy Carter eulogized by Kamala Harris and others as 39th president returns to Washington

 
Herschel Walker speaks during a campaign rally at Atrium Health Amphitheater for Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump, Nov. 3, 2024, in Macon, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Trump chooses Herschel Walker as US ambassador to Bahamas

 
Former Sen. David Perdue speaks during a gubernatorial Republican primary debate on May 1, 2022, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, Pool, File)

Trump names former Sen. David Perdue of Georgia to be ambassador to China

 
FILE - Chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., speaks during the hearing on Sexual Abuse of Female Inmates in Federal Prisons, Dec. 13, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff seeks more control over postmaster general after mail meltdown

 
President Joe Biden pauses as he concludes his address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2024, about his decision to drop his Democratic presidential reelection bid. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

Biden signs bill strengthening oversight of crisis-plagued US Bureau of Prisons after AP reporting

 

Georgia port awarded $15M federal infrastructure grant for new docks, terminal upgrades

 

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FILE - Georgia Human Services Commissioner Candice Broce, right, testifies in favor of a bill that would slow the flow of children into foster care, Feb. 16, 2023, at the state Capitol in Atlanta. A juvenile judge testified on Monday, Oct. 30, that such laws serve the interest of the state's child welfare agency, but not children. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, File)

Georgia child welfare leader denies she asked judges to illegally detain children in juvenile jails

 
FILE - Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., arrives before a subcommittee hearing, Sept. 13, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. During a subcommittee hearing on Monday, Oct. 30, chaired by Ossoff in Atlanta, two Georgia juvenile court judges said the head of the state's child welfare agency asked judges in an August meeting to illegally jail foster children while officials looked for other places to house them. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Judges say Georgia’s child welfare leader asked them to illegally detain children in juvenile jails

 
FILE - Canvasser Sienna Giraldi, 26, right, with Stop Cop City Vote Coalition, talks to an Atlanta resident, left, Thursday, July 20, 2023, in Atlanta. Georgia activists are furious that Democratic senators haven’t condemned Atlanta officials’ plan to verify every signature on a petition to force a vote on a proposed police and firefighting training center. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

Activists furious Democratic leaders haven’t denounced plan to check every ‘Stop Cop City’ signature

 
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks during Georgia Chamber Congressional Luncheon at The Classic Center, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023, in Athens, Ga. (Hyosub Shin/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

Georgia Gov. Kemp tells business group that he wants to limit lawsuits, big legal judgments

 
FILE - Gov. Brian Kemp smiles as he stands next to a Rivian electric truck during a ceremony to announce that the electric truck maker plans to build a $5 billion battery and assembly plant east of Atlanta projected to employ 7,500 workers, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in Atlanta. Kemp is escalating his attack on President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle policy. The Republican governor spoke Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at the groundbreaking for a company that got more than $100 million in federal funding to refine graphite for electric batteries. But Kemp says Biden's infrastructure law wrongly puts the government's “thumb on the scale.” (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Georgia governor attacks Biden’s electric vehicle policy at federally-backed battery material maker