Lt. Gov. Burt Jones (R-GA) withheld an endorsement from his former primary opponent, Georgia‘s Republican gubernatorial nominee Rick Jackson, during his first time speaking publicly about his campaign for governor since his GOP runoff loss.

Jones had a nearly clear path to securing the Peach State’s Republican nomination for governor before businessman Jackson hopped into the primary race earlier this year. Though Jones won the most amount of votes in the initial primary race, he lost to Jackson in the June runoff.