Today, as the gubernatorial candidates gather for the Georgia Association of Manufacturers’ Gubernatorial Candidate Forum, here’s a reminder that Jones, Jackson, Raffensperger, and Carr all support the same job-killing and economy-crushing GOP policies coming out of DC.
The entire Republican field strongly supports Trump’s tariffs that are jacking up prices on families and hurting small business owners:
- Rick Jackson was caught bragging about how much money he made off Trump’s tariffs, telling a crowd in Thomasville he made “an 80% return in four weeks” after fallout from the tariffs crashed the stock market. But even as these policies have jacked up costs, threatened jobs all across our state – especially at the Port of Savannah – and have been described as a “gut punch” by Georgia small business owners, Jackson somehow still says he can’t “think of a single White House policy he disagrees with.”
- Burt Jones stood by Trump as the president declared tariffs “the most beautiful word,” and he told the AJC that he “was not concerned that Trump’s proposed tariffs could hurt any economic relief.” Jones even claimed he was not concerned about the tariffs’ impacts on farmers, even as producers of everything from soybeans to peaches, strawberries and pumpkins have struggled to keep up with these cost-raising policies.
- And the entire GOP field has stood by as these cost-raising policies have crushed our state, even as Georgians continue speaking out loud and clear against the price hikes we’re seeing on food, fuel, and everything in between as a result of Trump’s tariffs.
The entire GOP field also strongly supports Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, legislation that has been cited as a key reason behind the closure of the SK Battery Plant in Commerce earlier this year, killing nearly a thousand Georgia jobs in the process.
“Burt Jones, Rick Jackson, and the rest of the clowns running in this GOP primary all support the same job-killing and cost-raising policies coming out of DC. Make no mistake: Their reckless job-killing agendas will raise costs on Georgia families and small businesses,” said Jake Strickland, spokesperson for the Democratic Party of Georgia.
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