Georgia primary: A look at who’s running in the big races

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Early voting is underway in Georgia and the first election will happen Could 24 within the state.

Right here’s a take a look at the large races and who’s working:

GOVERNOR

REPUBLICANS

• Gov. Brian Kemp – Kemp is working for re-election. Kemp is a conservative Republican and lately signed payments banning “divisive ideas” reminiscent of Important Race Principle being taught in colleges and a ban in opposition to transgender athletes.
• Catherine Davis – Life, Liberty and Management are the three phrases on the high of Davis’ web site. She grew up in a house the place Biblical conservative ideas had been the norm. She is described as a seasoned human sources skilled and expert program supervisor.
• Kandiss Taylor – Taylor’s web site says she is the candidate for “We The Folks” and is selling morality over cash. Her slogan is “Jesus, Weapons and Infants.”
• Former Sen. David Perdue – Perdue is backed by former President Donald Trump. He describes himself because the “unique outsider” as a result of he was the one Fortune 500 CEO in Congress when he was elected in 2014. Perdue says he’ll safe the election course of, remove state revenue tax, empower dad and mom in school rooms, enact time period limits and extra.
• Tom Williams – Williams describes himself as a “true political outsider” and is working on the platform that he’ll defend election integrity, uphold the regulation, struggle in opposition to radical Democrats and their enablers, defend working folks and youngsters and defend Georgia girls and ladies.

DEMOCRATS

• Stacey Abrams – Abrams has held a number of management positions within the small enterprise, nonprofit and authorities sectors. She ran in 2018 for governor however didn’t succeed. Her web site has an extended record of issues she has completed to assist folks, together with serving to to lift funds to offer $1,000 checks to 100,000 households in want in Georgia.

U.S. SENATE

REPUBLICANS

• Gary Black – Black is the present Georgia agriculture commissioner. He says he has championed innovation, options and progress in Georgia’s largest business for 40 years.
• Josh Clark – Clark is a Christian conservative activist and former Georgia state consultant. Clark says he’s combating for household values.
• Kelvin King – King says that Biden is wrecking our economic system and making a disaster on the border. King is the proprietor of a building firm and a veteran of the US Air Drive.
• Jonathan McColum – McColum is an Military veteran with 35 years within the service and ordained minister. McColum desires to assist unite Georgia residents below the theme: God – Nation – Household.
• Latham Saddler – Saddler is a former Navy SEAL officer and director of intelligence within the Trump White Home.
• Herschel Walker – The UGA soccer legend is backed by former President Trump and is a cultural conservative. Though he’s main within the polls and is anticipated to win the first, he faces stiff competitors from incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock.

DEMOCRATS

• Tamara Johnson-Shealey – Shealey is a enterprise proprietor and an advocate for the enterprise business. She has lived in DeKalb and Gwinnett Counties for 26 years. Her journey in politics started when she turned involved about federal tax insurance policies imposed on her enterprise.
• Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock – Warnock is the incumbent and a pastor at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. Warnock has been an advocate to increase well being care protection and guaranteeing hardworking Georgians can earn a residing wage.

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

REPUBLICANS

• Sen. Burt Jones – Jones has been a state senator since 2013 and a former UGA soccer participant. He’s a pro-Trump conservative and is endorsed by the previous president.
• Mack McGregor – McGregor is a former U.S. Marine who believes it’s time to carry again our “God-given rights which are being stripped away from us each day.”
• Sen. Butch Miller – Miller is the president professional tempore of the Georgia Senate. He describes himself as a “true conservative” and small businessman who just isn’t afraid to struggle for Georgia values.
• Jeanne Seaver – Seaver is a conservative activist, a toddler advocate, a nonprofit founder and a businesswoman. She was an early Trump supporter and labored for his marketing campaign.

DEMOCRATS

• Rep. Erick Allen – Allen has been a member since 2019. Allen believes in healthcare justice, financial justice, voting justice, schooling justice and environmental justice.
• Charlie Bailey – Bailey is an legal professional who was the nominee for the legal professional common in 2018. Bailey desires to construct One Georgia the place each particular person can anticipate to depart a greater life with extra alternatives for his or her youngsters than they’d.
• Tyrone Brooks Jr. – Brooks is the son of former Georgia Rep. Tyrone Brooks Sr. He says he can be dedicated to facilitating the dialogue between the personal sector, public colleges, technical schools, native chambers of commerce and municipalities.
• Tony Brown – Brown is a former candidate for sheriff in Henry County. He’s additionally a veteran and a Full Gospel minister.
• Former Rep. Kwanza Corridor – Corridor served briefly as John Lewis’ momentary success within the U.S. Home. Corridor has been a member of the Atlanta Metropolis Council and Atlanta Board of Training.
• Jason Hayes – Hayes is a former state Home candidate and a practising doctor. His priorities are schooling, voter safety, healthcare and financial progress.
• Rep. Derrick Jackson – Jackson has been a member of the Georgia Home since 2017. He’s a 22-year Navy veteran, adjunct professor, entrepreneur, and nonprofit board member.
• Dr. Rashid Malik – Malik immigrated from Bangladesh in 1979. He has lived in Atlanta since 1995. He lists healthcare, housing, schooling, surroundings and security as his priorities.
• Rep. Renitta Shannon – Shannon has been a member since 2017. She describes herself as a progressive activist and is endorsed by the Working Households Get together and several other different progressive teams.

SECRETARY OF STATE

REPUBLICAN

• Rep. Jody Hice – Hice is a present U.S. congressman who’s pro-Trump and questioned the 2020 election. He says he desires to face within the hole in opposition to the nationwide takeover of elections and aggressively pursue voter fraud.
• T.J. Hudson – Hudson is a former probate and Justice of the Peace choose in addition to county supervisor for Treutlen County. He says he’s the one candidate with hands-on expertise supporting native elections workers and boards.
• David Belle Isle – Isle is a former mayor of Alpharetta. He attended regulation faculty at Georgia State College. He opened his personal observe in Alpharetta in 2005. He served on metropolis council earlier than being elected as mayor in 2012.
• Sec. Brad Raffensperger – Raffensperger is the present secretary of state who defended the legitimacy of the 2020 election votes and backed the state’s new voter regulation. He’s a structural engineer and lifelong conservative who moved to Georgia in 1982.

DEMOCRATS

• John Eaves – Eaves is a former Fulton County Commissioner and a professor. He created a jail reentry program, established “My Brother’s Keeper, and secured funding for Grady Hospital.
• Floyd Griffin – Griffin is a former mayor of Milledgeville, state senator, U.S. Military colonel and a member of a number of neighborhood organizations.
• Dee Hawkins-Haigler – Hawkins-Haigler is an ordained minister, school educator, neighborhood activist and political strategist. She served as a state consultant from June 2008 to January 2017.
• Michael Owens – Owens is a Marine veteran, cybersecurity knowledgeable and former chairman of the Cobb County Democratic Get together. He says he’ll defend each citizen’s proper to vote, improve voter registration, bolster the state’s cybersecurity and repair the election system.
• Rep. Bee Nguyen – Nguyen is the main state Democrat and represents the 89th District. She beforehand labored in public colleges. She made historical past when she was elected as the primary Asian American Democratic lady to the Georgia Normal Meeting.

ATTORNEY GENERAL

REPUBLICANS

• Chris Carr – Carr is the present legal professional common. Carr claims he has protected Georgians’ lives, livelihoods and liberties and has led the struggle in opposition to the liberal Stacey Abrams-Joe Biden agenda.
• John Gordon – Gordon is a former Bibb County prosecutor who says he’s working to revive election integrity.

DEMOCRATS

• Sen. Jen Jordan – Jordan, who’s the present state senator for the sixth district, says she’ll struggle to present individuals who want a far shot to get forward a voice. She can even defend voting rights.
• Christian Clever Smith – Smith is a former prosecutor for Fulton County and he believes that God created all folks equal and that justice and alternative ought to exist for all.

AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER

REPUBLICAN

• Sen. Tyler Harper – Harper is a state senator for the seventh district. He’s working unopposed to succeed Gary Black.

DEMOCRAT

• Rep. Winfred Dukes – Dukes has been a member of the home since 1997 and represents the 154th district. Dukes desires to create good-paying jobs with advantages in agriculture and worthwhile farms all through the states.
• Nakita Hemingway – Hemingway is an entrepreneur, realtor and cut-flower farmer. She can be an lively member within the Democratic Get together of Georgia, the Federation of Democratic Girls and the Georgia Farm Bureau.
• Fred Swann – Swann is a small enterprise proprietor who grew up exterior Macon the place he realized how agriculture can remodel households and communities.

INSURANCE COMMISSIONER

REPUBLICAN

• Ben Cowart – Cowart doesn’t have a marketing campaign web site.
• John King – King is the present Georgian Insurance coverage and Fireplace Security Commissioner. He was Doraville’s police chief for 17 years.
• Patrick Witt – Witt was a member of Donald Trump’s authorized workforce in Georgia throughout the 2020 election. Beneath Trump, he served as deputy chief of workers and performing chief of workers of the U.S. Workplace of Personnel Administration the place he helped advance Trump’s America First agenda.

DEMOCRATS

• Raphael Baker – Baker says he witnessed the failures of the healthcare system in Georgia throughout his enterprise associate and greatest good friend’s battle in opposition to kidney failure. Baker is a enterprise proprietor, philanthropist, creator, mentor and household man and has been within the insurance coverage business for 20 years.
• Janice Legislation Robinson – Robinson is an insurance coverage business veteran. She can be a broadcast creator and devoted mom.
• Rep. Matthew Wilson – Wilson has been a member of the Georgia Home since 2019. He’s an legal professional and client rights advocate.

STATE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT

REPUBLICAN

• John Barge – Barge was the varsity superintendent from 2011-2015. Barge says he desires to revive the muse, rebuild the Division of Training, and renew belief within the faculty programs.
• Richard Woods – Woods is the present faculty superintendent. Woods says he has raised academics’ pay, protected the rights of fogeys, ensured youngsters’ studying supplies are age-appropriate and promoted unity over divisiveness.

DEMOCRATS

• Currey Hitchens – Hitchens says she is going to concentrate on the well-being of scholars and academics and make colleges welcoming anti-racist protected locations for all college students.
• Dr. Jana Howard – Howard is a pediatric dentist who has a monitor file of advocacy for youngsters and households as a dentist, enterprise proprietor, neighborhood chief and elected official.
• James Morrow Jr. – Morrow has been a instructor for 25 years and is a coach. He’s additionally the regional director for the Affiliation of Skilled Educators.
• Alisha Thomas Searcy – Searcy is a former state consultant and served on the Training, Appropriations and Well being & Human Providers committees.

LABOR COMMISSIONER

REPUBLICAN

• Kartik Bhatt – Bhatt is a former animal management officer in Cobb County. Bhatt immigrated from India and lives in Acworth.
• Mike Coan – Coan is the previous deputy commissioner within the Division of Labor and a former Georgia Home consultant. He’s pro-life and professional 2nd Modification.
• Sen. Bruce Thompson – Thompson represents the 14th district. He says his biggest accomplishment is elevating his two kids. He has been extensively concerned in nonprofits and presently owns a number of companies.

DEMOCRATS

• Rep. William “Will” Bodie Jr. – Bodie represents the 62nd district and was the Democratic Get together’s Home Minority Whip from 2019-21. He says he determined to run when he noticed the gradual response from the Georgia Division of Labor throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
• Thomas Dean – Dean doesn’t seem to have a web site.
• Nicole Horn – Horn is a former Waffle Home waitress and tv reporter. She has owned her personal enterprise and served as a company government. She says her expertise has given her the power to know what folks want.
• Sen. Lester G. Jackson II – Jackson represents the 2nd district. He’s a former marine and the founder nationally-recognized Jackson Dental Heart. He was first elected to the Home of Representatives in 1998.

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