New reporting from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution today reveals the extent to which Rick Jackson has denied the results of the 2020 election, with the AJC writing that he has “echoed the president’s false claims of widespread election fraud” in 2020 throughout his campaign.
This comes as Trump is widely speculated to deliver a primetime address tonight pushing those same conspiracy theories, with the AJC writing that “[h]ow Jackson responds to the latest fallout from Trump’s fixation on 2020 will be closely watched.” Attention has been further heightened by the fact that he declined to comment on the substance of Trump’s speech earlier in the week.
In newly reported comments showing the extent of his election denial, Jackson is revealed to have said that “what happened in 2020 is just terrible” and that it’s “really easy to believe that, for the last 40 years, Fulton County has been cheating on voting.”
Jackson has made election denial a key theme of his campaign, with POLITICO reporting that Jackson is “adamant” the election was stolen. He strongly supports Trump’s efforts to undermine our elections, and declined to comment last week when a judge moved to protect election workers from Trump’s harassment – showing just how far he’ll bend the knee to Trump.
“Rick Jackson is an election denier, plain and simple,” said Democratic Party of Georgia spokesperson Jake Strickland. “Jackson pushed Trump’s darkest election conspiracy theories since his very first days on the campaign trail, and fully backs the president’s attacks on our elections. There’s no question that he’ll bend the knee to Trump every step of the way.”
It should come as no surprise that Jackson will bend the knee to Trump given how closely Jackson has aligned himself with the president throughout his campaign.
- Jackson has repeatedly told voters that he will be “Trump’s favorite governor” and that he will be “Trump with a Southern tone.”
- Jackson has made clear that he’ll govern “just like Trump,” and even gave Trump a $1 million donation in December 2025 to prove his loyalty to him.
- Jackson “said he couldn’t name a single White House policy he disagrees with,” according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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