Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones announced on Tuesday that he is launching a campaign to become the Peach State’s next governor ahead of the 2026 election. Jones’s long-anticipated entrance into the race makes him the second Republican to launch a gubernatorial campaign to succeed term-limited Gov.

Jones says he will eliminate state income tax and end fentanyl overdoses in Georgia. Democrats accuse his failed leadership for other issues.

Republicans are trying to hold onto a governor's chair that they have won in every election since 2002, even as Georgia has elected two Democratic U.S. senators and has become amo