Georgia
Sabato’s Crystal Ball moves Georgia governor race to ‘likely Republican’
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Election handicapper Sabato’s Crystal Ball on Monday shifted its score for Georgia’s gubernatorial race from “leans Republican” to “possible Republican,” suggesting Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is more and more positioned to win his rematch towards Democrat Stacey Abrams.
Georgia makes use of a runoff system — that means that voters will forged ballots once more in December if no candidate receives a majority — however Kemp in most up-to-date surveys has polled within the low 50s, which might narrowly keep away from a runoff, as he did towards Abrams in 2018.
“Our considering stays that the Senate race most likely goes to a runoff, however we expect it’s affordable to make Kemp a clearer favourite within the gubernatorial contest,” wrote Sabato’s Crystal Ball affiliate editor J. Miles Coleman. “Georgia goes to Doubtless Republican.”
Coleman added that even when the gubernatorial race does go to a runoff, he would most likely nonetheless favor Kemp to win on the December poll.
Georgia has trended blue since Kemp’s election as governor, specifically when President Biden narrowly received the Peach State in 2020, the primary time a Democratic presidential candidate carried Georgia’s electoral votes since 1992.
Voters in 2020 additionally elected Democrats to each of Georgia’s Senate seats for the primary time in years, and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) this yr faces a fierce reelection battle towards Republican challenger Herschel Walker.
Polls have proven Warnock and Walker neck-and-neck within the state whereas indicating Kemp maintains a slight however vital lead over Abrams.
“Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) has, maybe, been the governor who has most overperformed our early election cycle expectations,” Coleman wrote. “When the Crystal Ball issued our first set of scores for this cycle, again in March 2021, Kemp’s state had simply flipped from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. Likewise, the senator that he put into workplace, then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R), was simply defeated.”
However since then, Coleman mentioned Kemp has emerged as a Republican “free” of the previous president and in addition benefited from a political setting extra favorable to the GOP in comparison with 4 years in the past.
The sitting president’s occasion sometimes loses congressional seats within the midterms, and Kemp in 2018 eked out a win for Republicans at the same time as Democrats nationwide made giant beneficial properties within the Home in a rebuke of Trump.
Now the political headwinds are reversed, as Biden faces low approval scores slowed down by points like inflation.
“Regardless of a nationwide profile and brisk fundraising, former state Home Minority Chief Stacey Abrams (D) has not fairly been capable of replicate the vitality that underpinned her 2018 effort,” Coleman wrote. “To be truthful to Abrams, a few of the obstacles she faces on this rematch are structural: Kemp now has incumbency, and the nationwide setting is solely redder now than it was 4 years in the past.”
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Georgia
College baseball: Georgia's Condon wins Howser Trophy – Salisbury Post
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College baseball: Georgia’s Condon wins Howser Trophy
Published 10:29 pm Sunday, June 16, 2024
- Georgia’s Charlie Condon speaks to the media before an NCAA college baseball practice, Wednesday, May 15, 2024, in Athens, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Georgia’s Charlie Condon was selected the winner of the Dick Howser Trophy on Saturday as the national player of the year in college baseball after he led the country in home runs and batting average.
Condon batted .433 and hit 37 homers, the most by a Division I player since Rice’s Lance Berkman had 41 in 1997. Condon played first and third base and in the outfield and committed just four errors in 163 chances. He is projected to be an early pick in next month’s amateur draft.
The consensus first team All-American and Southeastern Conference player of the year became the first Georgia player to win the Howser Trophy, which is awarded based on voting by members of the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association.
Other Howser Trophy finalists were Oregon State second baseman Travis Bazzana, Wake Forest pitcher Chase Burns, first baseman-pitcher Jac Caglianone of Florida and pitcher Hagen Smith of Arkansas.
The Howser Trophy honors the memory of Dick Howser, a two-time All-America shortstop for Florida State (1957-58) and later manager of the New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals. The award has been presented since 1987, shortly after Howser’s death.
Georgia
Inmate used gun to kill a prison kitchen worker before killing himself, officials say
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GLENNVILLE, Ga. — An inmate used a gun to kill a kitchen worker at a Georgia prison early Sunday before fatally shooting himself, state officials said.
The Georgia Department of Corrections in a statement said it’s investigating the deaths at Smith State Prison in rural southeast Georgia. The agency provided few immediate details, including how the inmate obtained a firearm.
The agency’s statement said inmate Jaydrekus Hart fatally shot a food service worker in the prison’s kitchen at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, then used the gun to kill himself.
“The weapon is in GDC custody at this time, and a complete and thorough investigation of what led up to this tragic incident will be carried out,” the statement said.
Agency spokeswoman Lori Benoit provided no further information when reached by phone. She said further details would be released when they become available.
The name of the slain kitchen worker, an employee of the food service company Aramark, was not immediately released.
“We are heartbroken over the loss of our colleague and our hearts and prayers go out to her family,” Aramark spokesperson Debbie Albert said in an emailed statement. “This is a tragedy for all of us.”
Albert said the company was assisting Georgia prison officials in their investigation.
It’s the second killing of a staff member at Smith State Prison in less than a year. Correctional officer Robert Clark, 42, died last October after an inmate he was escorting attacked him from behind with a homemade weapon.
A state investigation into a sprawling contraband scheme inside the prison resulted in the arrest and firing of the prison’s warden, Brian Adams, in February 2023. He was charged with racketeering, bribery, making or writing false statements and violating his oath as a public officer.
Hart had been imprisoned since 2015 after being convicted in Carroll County of voluntary manslaughter and aggravated battery, according to online prison records. His earliest potential release date would have been in 2043.
Smith State Prison, which has capacity for 1,500 inmates, is a close-security prison that houses offenders considered violent or an escape risk.
Georgia
Three-Star Edge Carrington Coombs Commits to Georgia Tech, Bumps Yellow Jackets Up to No. 22 Nationally In Rankings
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Georgia Tech had a great weekend recruiting last weekend and they have got the ball rolling again tonight with the commitment of Carrington Coombs, a three-star edge who plays at Hebron Christian Academy in Georgia. Coombs is now the 13th commitment in the 2025 class for Georgia Tech.
To God be the Glory!! I’m Home, Go Jackets!! @GeorgiaTechFB . @HebronLionsFB @jonathan_gess @Terrencemelton @Danny__mejia @CoachSantucci pic.twitter.com/L3JL1cwKky
— Carrington Coombs (@cacoombs3) June 15, 2024
Georgia Tech’s class now ranks 22nd in the country and 4th in the ACC, behind only Clemson, Syracuse and Stanford. The Yellow Jackets average recruit rank is an 87.44, higher than either Syracuse and Stanford and only trails Clemson, Florida State, Miami, North Carolina, and SMU.
According to the 247Sports Composite, Coombs is a three-star player, the No. 625 player in the country, the No. 68 linebacker in the country, and the No. 69 player in the state of Georgia.
Other offers that Coombs held were Boston College, Kansas State, Liberty, Virginia, Oklahoma State, USF, and App State, among others. Here are some other news and noteworthy stats about Coombs courtesy of 247Sports:
Also plays basketball.
2023: Two-way snaps for Dacula (Ga.) Hebron Christian Academy, helping lead the Lions to a 6-5 record and first round berth in the GHSA 3A playoffs. Totaled 41 tackles, four sacks, and a forced fumble as a junior along with two catches for 23 yards on offense.
Georgia Tech is off to a really good start to the month and they should only be getting better. Brent Key has done a great job of getting guys on campus and being able to land them.
2025 Georgia Tech commitments
Four-Star Offensive Lineman Justin Hasenhuetl
Three-Star defensive end Andre Fuller
Three-star quarterback Grady Adamson
Three-star offensive lineman Jimmy Bryson
Three-star Safety Rasean Dinkins
Three-star Running Back JP Powell
Three-Star Safety Fenix Felton
Three-Star Athlete Jamauri Brice
Three-Star Tight end Connor Roush
Three-star offensive lineman Kevin Peay
Four-Star Cornerback Dalen Penson
Three-Star Wide Receiver Sam Turner
Three-Star Edge Carrington Coombs
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