The Latest News about Georgia

Democratic senatorial candidate Jon Ossoff won Georgia’s primary election to take on Republican Sen. David Perdue in November. He won with 50.5% of the vote, just barely eclipsing the 50% needed to avoid a runoff. Ossoff’s emergence onto the political scene came in 2017, when he narrowly lost a special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District in what was at ...

Georgia voters faced long lines and malfunctioning voting machines throughout the day Tuesday as they went to cast their ballots in the state’s primary election, CNN reported. Most of the difficulties were in the Atlanta metro area, where election officials attributed the challenges to the pandemic, inexperienced poll workers, and the influx of mail-in ballots, though some voters asserted that ...

The Atlanta mayor who criticized Georgia Gov. Brian Kemps’ decision to reopen the state last month said Monday that the results were “not as bad” as she first anticipated. Appearing on MSNBC to discuss the coronavirus outbreak in Georgia, Mayor Keisha Bottoms acknowledged that reopening the state’s economy has not lead to the results she initially expected. However, the Democratic ...

Georgia’s restaurants and barber shops are seeing a slow but steady increase in traffic after Gov. Brian Kemp began easing up the economic lockdowns he imposed to slow the coronavirus pandemic, location data show. Visits to the state’s barber shops and tattoo parlors increased to 80% of pre-coronavirus levels after Georgia began rolling back own stay-at-home orders on April 24, according to ...

The WuFlu has been a godsend for the left. And I’m not talking about the startling discovery that 95 percent of the USA is willing to be confined to quarters solely on the basis of a computer model whose numbers are undergoing constant revision to repair past mistakes. Instead the China Flu gives the left an unparalleled opportunity to attack ...

ATLANTA – Rong Sun, a/k/a Vicky Sun made her initial appearance on federal criminal charges Thursday for illegally importing and selling an unregistered pesticide, and mailing a prohibited article, as part of an online scheme offering the product for sale on Ebay while claming, without any legal basis, the illegal pesticide would protect persons from coronavirus. Sun was charged with ...

Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced Monday that some Georgia businesses will reopen Friday. Georgia will allow businesses such as gyms, hair and nail salons, to reopen on Friday, the governor announced Monday, noting that these businesses must stagger shifts, screen workers for any respiratory illnesses, and keep workspaces six feet apart from each other, the Hill reports. “By taking ...

In response to Georgia GOP Rep. Doug Collins officially filing to run for the state’s special Senate election on Monday, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) issued a blistering statement against him. Collins — who has represented Georgia’s 9th Congressional District since 2013 — made it publicly known late last year that he would be running in the state’s special ...

The chief of the Georgia ethics commission said a nonprofit tied to Stacey Abrams acted as a political committee during the 2018 election and openly wondered if the organization illegally coordinated with her campaign. Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission Director David Emadi said during a Wednesday meeting that the New Georgia Project and New Georgia Project Action Fund ...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp officially announced his pick of Kelly Loeffler, a businesswoman who co-owns the Atlanta Dream, as his choice to replace outgoing GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson.  In her first speech as senator-designate, Loeffler described herself as unapologetically conservative, and vowed to support the Trump agenda. Loeffler may face a GOP challenger in the November 2020 primary, but many ...

Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer, told Variety that Netflix will “rethink” their “entire investment in Georgia.” Many major Hollywood studios have remained silent on the matter of Georgia abortion legislation. An MPAA spokesperson told TheDCNF in a statement that “The outcome in Georgia will also be determined through the legal process. We will continue to monitor developments.” Netflix’s chief ...

Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp signed a “fetal heartbeat bill” Tuesday which will make abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected illegal in the state. “Georgia is a state that values life,” Kemp said before signing the bill. “We stand up for those who are unable to speak for themselves.” “But our job is to do what is right, not ...

The newly-elected president of the National Rifle Association (NRA) told reporters Tuesday she will support any GOP challenger to Democratic Georgia U.S. Rep. Lucy McBath in the next election. “Whoever [runs against McBath] will get an endorsement from the NRA,” said Carolyn Meadows, who also lives in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. Meadows has vowed to throw the full weight of ...

Democratic Georgia Rep. Lucy McBath was not a permanent Georgia resident when she ran for Congress in 2018, according to a report published Monday. Tax documents uncovered by The Washington Free Beacon reveal that Cobb County, Georgia, does not recognize the freshman congresswoman’s home as her permanent residence, and consequently, the county has revoked the homestead exemptions her family previously ...

A Georgia House committee approved a bill Wednesday that seeks to ban abortions after an unborn baby’s heartbeat is detected, marking a significant push to expand abortion restrictions in the state. The House Health and Human Services Committee approved the measure by a 17 to 14 vote along party lines, CBS News reported. The bill makes exceptions in cases where ...