Georgia GOP chair would allow Raffensperger on Republican ticket despite delegate disapproval

Published June 10, 2025 4:14pm ET



Georgia Republican Party chairman Josh McKoon signaled on Tuesday that the party would allow Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on the 2026 ballot, saying to do otherwise would be of questionable legality.

Raffensperger is the center of a rift within the Georgia Republican Party, angering President Donald Trump’s loyalists with his actions surrounding the 2020 election. At a weekend Republican convention, delegates approved a resolution calling for party officials to disqualify Raffensperger from the Republican ticket. In an appearance on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Politically Georgia podcast, McKoon said he wouldn’t.

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