AG Chris Carr Seeking to Bring Failed, Extreme Record to Governor’s Mansion

Today, Attorney General Chris Carr announced his campaign to bring his record of gutting reproductive freedom and health care, wasting taxpayer dollars, and failed leadership to the Governor’s Mansion in 2026.

“For eight years, Attorney General Chris Carr has used his office to rip away Georgia women’s reproductive freedom, try to gut our health care, waste taxpayer dollars defending Governor Kemp’s extreme agenda, and give a free pass to his allies’ corruption,” said DPG Chair Congresswoman Nikema Williams. “Georgians have already endured eight years of this failed leadership, and we’re looking forward to rejecting it in 2026 in favor of a strong Democratic governor who will put Georgians first.”

Refresher on Chris Carr’s failed record as Attorney General:

• Ripping away reproductive freedom: As Attorney General, Chris Carr has led the charge to strip away Georgians’ reproductive freedom, doubling down on Georgia’s extreme ban at every opportunity.
  
  • When Roe v. Wade was overturned, Carr rushed to ask the court to instate the dangerous six-week abortion ban that cost Amber Thurman and Candi Miller their lives.
    
  • When a judge overturned the ban earlier this year – and in the wake of reporting on Amber Thurman and Candi Miller’s deaths due to the law – Carr immediately doubled down and asked the Georgia Supreme Court to reinstate it, claiming Georgia women have “no constitutional right to an elective abortion.”
    
  • In 2022, Carr admitted that the abortion ban’s enforcement “explicitly targets doctors.”

• Gutting health care: Chris Carr sued to gut the Affordable Care Act and rip away protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
  
• Wasting taxpayer money: Carr wasted Georgians’ tax dollars suing the Biden Administration to defend Gov. Brian Kemp’s “dismal,”  “not promising,” “too costly, too limited” health care plan – which has itself cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars while covering fewer than 5,000 Georgians since its rollout over a year ago.
  
• Corruption: Carr refuses to investigate Governor Brian Kemp’s administration after an audit revealed the administration “sidestepped the law” when it rushed to approve a billion-dollar contract to distribute cash assistance cards (with Kemp’s face on them) to 3 million Georgians right before the 2022 election.
  
• Corruption: A 2022 AJC investigation revealed that Chris Carr accepted thousands of dollars in campaign cash from an out–of-state health insurance giant that was forced to pay $485 million in legal settlements to 13 states and was accused of defrauding the State of Georgia of millions of dollars.

• Failed leadership: Under Carr and Republicans’ failed leadership, Georgia’s homicide rate is in the top 10 states in the country.

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