With this weekend marking 100 days until Election Day, Georgia Democrats are continuing to build strength and momentum behind the best coordinated campaign the state has ever seen, organizing across the state while Georgia Republicans are mired in scandal and division.
DPG Chair Charlie Bailey issued the following statement:
“Georgia Democrats know that winning on Election Day will take an unprecedented organizing effort. We’re reaching voters in every corner of the state to hold Republicans accountable between now and Election Day,” said DPG Chair Charlie Bailey. “While Georgia Republicans are riddled with division and scandal, Georgia Democrats are more united and organized than ever with 100 days to go.”
100 Days Out from Election Day, Georgia Democrats are unified, organized and building the campaign infrastructure to win.
- The coordinated campaign will have 30 field offices open across the state by early August, from Valdosta to Rome and everywhere in between.
- The campaign has added 60 full-time field organizers leading voter outreach in their communities and more than 100 coordinated campaign staff – the most ever hired by DPG’s coordinated campaign at this point in an election cycle.
- At the top of the ticket, Senator Jon Ossoff and Keisha Lance Bottoms are partnering to build an unstoppable winning coalition that will deliver victories up and down the ballot across Georgia in November.
While Democrats are unified and building momentum, Republicans are mired in scandal and division.
- Republicans are growing increasingly concerned about scandal-ridden Mike Collins’ Senate bid:
- In the U.S. Senate race, multiple recent reports highlight the growing concerns about GOP nominee Mike Collins’ candidacy coming from within his own party after CNN reporting exposed Collins’ “close ties” to white nationalism and neo-Nazi propaganda, and his subsequent refusal to say whether he ever paid neo-Nazi propagandist David Alan Scheer either personally or through his business, his campaign, or his office. Scheer has been “featured in campaign photos, registered to vote at a Collins-owned property,” and has “helped produce promotional work for Collins’ trucking company.”
- GOP strategists, party leaders, and Georgia voters are deeply concerned with Collins’ campaign as he continues facing a slew of scandals, including an active federal investigation into the illegal misuse of tax dollars, renewed scrutiny over his office’s ties to prominent white supremacists and efforts to free a Holocaust denier from jail, as well as outrage over his antisemitic harassment of a Jewish reporter and praise for a young man who harassed a Black woman by making monkey sounds.
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution also reported that Collins’ scandals could impact Georgia GOP gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson, questioning if Collins “could be dragging Jackson’s chances down.”
- Meanwhile, billionaire Rick Jackson has made himself inseparable from Trump.
- He declared once again at the president’s recent event in Marietta that he is running to be “Trump’s favorite governor” despite the president’s deep unpopularity in Georgia, which will be a liability for him throughout this general election campaign.
- And while Jackson does not miss an opportunity to brag about how much money he’s made off Trump policies that are hurting Georgians, one thing he cannot brag about is party unity, with the GOP deeply divided heading into this election:
- Reporting highlights that many GOP activists remain “openly skeptical” of Rick Jackson’s candidacy.
- Georgia GOP Chair Josh McKoon admitted that he “has not heard back from Jackson since he became the party’s nominee”.
- And in what the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported as the “clearest sign yet that the Republican Party has not yet moved beyond a costly and bruising contest dominated by tens of millions of dollars in attack ads, dueling accusations of corruption and a proxy fight over the party’s direction,” Burt Jones this month refused to commit to voting for Jackson in November.
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