The Latest News about Georgia

Georgia Republican state Rep. Brad Raffensperger won the runoff election to become the next Georgia Secretary of State, defeating former Democratic congressman John Barrow on Tuesday night. The 2018 midterm elections finally drew to a close for Georgia voters, with the Associated Press and other election analysis sites calling the race for Raffensperger. As of publication of this article, the Republican ...

Defeated Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams revealed on Monday that she has her eyes set on advancing her political career and she’s considering a multitude of options. After losing in November to Republican Gov.-elect Brian Kemp, Abrams has been mulling over a second run for the position when his term expires in 2022, according to Politico. However, she is ...

Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams’s campaign filed a lawsuit pertaining to the state’s gubernatorial race Sunday, still hoping to force a runoff election against Republican Brian Kemp.

The Democratic Party of Georgia tried purchasing airtime on Friday to run campaign ads on a local Atlanta channel on behalf of gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.

Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, a Republican running for governor, is opening an investigation into the state’s Democratic Party for allegedly attempting to hack the state’s voter registration system.

President Donald Trump holds a rally in Macon, Georgia, Sunday afternoon to support gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, Rep. Karen Handel, and Rep. Rob Woodall who all hold single-digit leads over their opponents.  Area Races Georgia Governor Republican candidate Brian Kemp holds a slim 2-point lead over Democrat challenger Stacey Abrams in the latest poll. Stacey Abrams voted against campus carry, ...

President Donald Trump will hold a rally in Macon, Georgia, Sunday afternoon to support gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, Rep. Karen Handel, and Rep. Rob Woodall who all hold single-digit leads over their opponents.  Area Races Georgia Governor Republican candidate Brian Kemp holds a slim 2-point lead over Democrat challenger Stacey Abrams in the latest poll. Stacey Abrams voted against campus ...

According to the Georgia Secretary of State’s office, 670 ballots were cast in a precinct that has only 270 registered voters.  As reported by McClatchy: “Habersham County’s Mud Creek precinct in northeastern Georgia had 276 registered voters ahead of the state’s primary elections in May” “But 670 ballots were cast, according to the Georgia secretary of state’s office, indicating a 243 ...

  by Ryan Pickrell A Puerto Rico Air National Guard WC-130 military transport aircraft nosedived shortly after takeoff in Savannah, Ga., Wednesday, ending the lives of the nine people on board. The plane went down off Highway 21, creating a massive fireball when it hit. Witnesses told reporters that it sounded like a bomb going off when the fatal crash ...

President Donald Trump will, in the morning, receive his daily briefing as prepared by the intelligence community. In the afternoon, the president will head to Nashville, TN to deliver a speech at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s convention. The president will then attend an NCAA football national championship game between Alabama and Georgia. President Trump’s schedule for 1/8/18 11:00 a.m. Receive ...

Grocer ALDI has voluntarily recalled an assortment of apples that were available for purchase in stores starting on December 13, 2017, due to possible Listeria contamination. The potentially affected products were sold in a limited number of ALDI stores located in Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina, North Carolina and in the Atlanta area through the company’s partnership with Instacart, a grocery delivery service.. ...

Radical Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is calling for the destruction of the Confederate monument at Stone Mountain. The Dekalb County memorial has a controversial history in terms of its location and bears carvings of Confederate Civil War leaders Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. It is a tourist attraction yet in these raw days ...

The special election in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District has become the most expensive and most watched House races in history. All Polls close at 7 p.m. EDT except for two precincts in Dekalb County which will close at 7:30 pm. *This page will update regularly with information so reload it or check back often.* Georgia Sixth Congressional District June 20, 2017 ...

As Georgian’s in the suburban Atlanta U.S. House sixth district go to vote, the most recent poll trends towards Handel despite a strong showing by her opponent in early voting. A Trafalgar Group poll released Monday night shows Karen Handel (R) ahead of Democrat Jon Ossoff by almost 2 points among 1,100 likely voters. While that lead is still within ...

MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace repeatedly asked a sleepy-eyed Jon Ossoff why he’s using so many Hollywood celebrity endorsements in his campaign when the strategy clearly failed for Hillary Clinton. “Let me ask you, do you think Samuel Jackson, George Takei and Sam Watterson and Jessica Lange and Connie Britton or any of the celebrities who endorsed you understand the daily struggles ...