Lt. Gov. Burt Jones blamed billionaire Rick Jackson and his political consultants for damaging the GOP brand, arguing his “scorched-earth approach” alienated voters and demoralized the party’s activists. “It was really almost kind of sad to watch.” www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Burt Jones speaks his mind after GOP rout

The outgoing lieutenant governor blames Rick Jackson and his advisers for Republican losses while suggesting a deal that could help Democrats expand Medicaid.

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Carolyn Hugley is set to become Georgia’s first Black House speaker after spending more than two decades in the minority. The rest of the Democratic House team is also coming into focus. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Georgia House Democrats set to elect leaders for their new majority

Carolyn Hugley, a Democrat from Columbus, is poised to be chosen as Georgia's first Black House speaker.

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Georgia’s historic Democratic sweep was fueled partly by a surge of Latino voters, a remarkable turnaround for a voting bloc that helped President Donald Trump reclaim the state just two years ago. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

A Latino voting surge is reshaping Georgia’s political map

More than 198,000 Latino Georgians cast ballots in the election, a 78% increase from four years ago and a record for a midterm.

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“Republicans last week were the losers. Democrats were the winners,” he said. “But on the Republican side, the only winners were the guys who got their cash, their checks, and now move on to the next race.” #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Burt Jones speaks his mind after GOP rout

The outgoing lieutenant governor blames Rick Jackson and his advisers for Republican losses while suggesting a deal that could help Democrats expand Medicaid.

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Gov. Brian Kemp entered office after a bitter campaign fight over Stone Mountain’s fate. Eight years later, he’s preparing to leave office after announcing that a Black executive will oversee the sprawling monument to the Confederate war dead. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

The Stone Mountain fight that faded

Years after Stone Mountain dominated Georgia's 2018 governor's race, a Black executive is set to oversee the sprawling monument to the Confederate war dead.

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When Republican Attorney General Chris Carr was asked to name three things that went wrong for his party in Tuesday’s election wipeout, he didn’t hesitate: “Donald Trump, Donald Trump and Donald Trump.” #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Georgia Republicans lost power in a rout. Now what?

Republicans lost every statewide election last week. Plotting their return to power will be tricky.

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Georgia Republicans are in an unfamiliar exile after a quarter-century of political dominance. The sheer scale of the defeat has left them confronting a question they haven’t seriously considered in decades: Where does the party go from here? www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Georgia Republicans lost power in a rout. Now what?

Republicans lost every statewide election last week. Plotting their return to power will be tricky.

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OPINION: The Republican Party of Georgia has been taken over, increasingly, by flat-earth conspiracy theorists who would rather relitigate the past than win the future, writes AJC contributor Erick Erickson. https://mrf.lu/2Ychn

A missing memory card discovered in southwest Georgia could cost Democrats a seat in the state House and narrow their newly-won majority before they even take power. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Missing memory card could flip Georgia House race, narrow Democratic edge

After a missing memory card in Seminole County was counted, a Republican incumbent went from trailing by 58 votes to leading by 262.

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White voters accounted for just 54% of Georgia’s electorate, down from nearly 60% in the 2022 midterm and 61% when Trump first carried Georgia in 2016. Black voters, meanwhile, made up 30% of the electorate, up from about 26% four years ago. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Behind the collapse of the Republican coalition in Georgia

Not a single Republican won a statewide race in Georgia on Tuesday. Is it a temporary backlash to Donald Trump? Or the start of a political realignment?

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The last time Georgia politics underwent a transformation this sweeping, some lawmakers decided to change parties rather than fight the tide. Could it happen again? #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Will Georgia Republicans switch parties after Democrats’ gains?

The last time Georgia politics underwent a transformation this sweeping, some lawmakers decided to change parties rather than fight the tide.

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A billionaire opponent. Relentless attacks. One ‘gut punch’ after another. Inside the campaign that returned Democrats to the Governor’s Mansion. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

How Keisha Lance Bottoms overcame the odds to win Georgia’s race for governor

The former Atlanta mayor's advisers believed attacks on her record would backfire.

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The Republican runoff for U.S. Senate had hardly ended when Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff gave his senior campaign staff a two-word directive. “Bury him.” #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Inside Jon Ossoff’s two-year strategy to turn a Senate race into a rout

The Democrat spent nearly two years making calculated moves aimed at producing a less formidable opponent while helping shape the politics of the race.

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Keisha Lance Bottoms shattered political barriers by becoming Georgia’s first Democratic governor in a generation. Now comes the challenge of making good on her promises. And, suddenly many of them are very achievable. From the @ajc: #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Keisha Lance Bottoms makes history as Georgia governor. Now comes the hard part.

The former Atlanta mayor made history as the first Black woman elected governor in U.S. history. She'll face a host of challenges, with some starting before she takes office.

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Breaking: Gov. Brian Kemp just said he will *not* call a special legislative session to redraw Georgia’s political boundaries or limit the powers of Gov.-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he won’t call special session to redraw maps

The governor’s announcement comes hours after Bottoms’ historic victory, which ended 24 years of GOP control of the Governor’s Mansion.

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"The Black woman tsunami from the primary turned into a blue wave in the general election," said longtime Georgia strategist Fred Hicks. "Georgia is blue and it is led by Black women." #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Democratic rout reshapes Georgia’s political landscape

Democrats won every statewide executive constitutional office and are poised to have a majority in the state House of Representatives for the first time in 22 years.

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“Georgians sent a clear message that they want leaders who care about their gas and groceries and not ballrooms and reflecting pools,” said Georgia GOP consultant Jordan Fuchs. “This election is a full rebuke of what has been going on in Washington & enough is enough.” www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Georgia Democrats sweep statewide offices in historic political upheaval

A Democratic wave ended decades of GOP dominance in Georgia and threatened the GOP's grip on the state Legislature.

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Georgia’s political landscape was transformed Tuesday as Democrats swept every statewide office, captured the Governor’s Mansion for the first time in nearly three decades and threatened to win control of the Georgia House. My @ajc.com story: #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

A ‘bloodbath.’ Georgia Democrats sweep statewide offices in historic political upheaval

A Democratic wave ended decades of GOP dominance in Georgia and threatened the GOP's grip on the state Legislature.

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Breaking: Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms won Georgia’s race for governor Tuesday, overcoming unprecedented spending by Republican billionaire Rick Jackson to become the first Black woman in U.S. history elected to lead a state government. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Keisha Lance Bottoms elected Georgia governor, nation's first Black woman governor

The former Atlanta mayor overcame an enormous spending disadvantage to defeat Republican Rick Jackson.

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U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff easily wins reelection over U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, coasting to a second term after throttling his Republican rival. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff cruises to reelection over Republican Mike Collins

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Wondering how your neighborhood voted? Check out our interactive map to get precinct-by-precinct data on tonight's election. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Georgia 2026 results by precinct and neighborhood

Live precinct results from Georgia's Nov. 3 General Election: Governor, U.S. Senate, lieutenant governor, secretary of state and other statewide races, by neighborhood.

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Just how many Georgians need to vote Tuesday for Republicans to overcome the apparent Democratic edge in early voting? It might be the biggest question hanging over tonight’s midterm results. From the @ajc: www.ajc.com/politics/202...

How much Election Day turnout do Republicans need to stay in the game?

Republican strategists are watching to see if their voters can overcome record early voting that appears to favor Democrats with a late flood of Election Day votes.

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Georgia Democrats are “nauseously optimistic,” as U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock put it, daring to dream of a historic sweep without quite believing it’s within reach. After two decades of GOP dominance under the Gold Dome, Democrats sense something bigger is at hand. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Georgia voters head to polls with both parties anxious

Republicans are banking on an Election Day surge, while Democrats are cautiously hopeful that record-setting early turnout could lead to a historic sweep.

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“I’m telling you,” Mike Collins said at one of his final campaign stops, “this thing is neck and neck.” www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Jon Ossoff, once vulnerable, seeks a commanding win over Mike Collins

Public polls show Collins is trailing. But the Republican insists the race is neck and neck.

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More Georgians voted early in a midterm than ever before, with a younger, more diverse electorate and stronger turnout in left-leaning areas fueling the record-breaking surge ahead of Tuesday’s election. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Early voting for Georgia midterms breaks records with 2.8M ballots cast

A younger, more diverse electorate and stronger turnout in Democratic-leaning areas offer fresh clues about Tuesday’s high-stakes elections.

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Your early voting update in Georgia: Republicans are starting to catch up, but Democrats are maintaining their momentum.

Georgia voters shattered the state’s midterm record for in-person early voting Thursday, another sign of intense interest in an election that will set the battleground state’s political trajectory. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Georgia shatters midterm early voting record as Election Day nears

More than 2.29 million Georgians have cast ballots in person, passing the previous midterm record set in 2022.

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Former President Barack Obama stormed back into Georgia’s political fray Wednesday with blistering attacks on President Donald Trump, casting next week’s midterm election as a “last, best chance” to rein in his power. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Obama warns Georgia voters of their ‘last, best chance’ to rebuke Trump

Obama delivers a blistering attack on Trump at Georgia rally.

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Georgia Democrats need to net 10 seats to flip the state House. I wrote this story in August highlighting the 8 House races in the spotlight. But the map is now expanding, with Democrats confident of reaching deeper in the suburbs. Gift link: #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Democrats see a path to flipping the Georgia House with these 8 races

Democrats need a net gain of 10 seats to win a majority in the state House of Representatives for the first time in more than two decades.

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Georgia has four open U.S. House seats and a fifth with a person in office less than a year. Yet, there is little intrigue about which party is favored to win the general election. (Gift link) www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Is gerrymandering making Georgia’s U.S. House races boring?

Analysts say that a blue wave on Election Day still may not be enough for Democrats to flip any of Georgia's nine Republican-held U.S. House seats.

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