The Georgia Hour, episode 80: Georgia GOP Chair Election 2025: David Cross vs. Josh McKoon

The Georgia GOP chair election on June 7, 2025, in Dalton is a pivotal moment to reshape the party’s future in Georgia. Delegates must rally to vote for David Cross, Lisa Pierce, Norine Cantor, Laurie McClaine, and Cindy Nixon to challenge the entrenched power structure led by Brian Kemp, empowered by Josh McKoon. McKoon claims credit for raising millions, but critics argue much of it came from the RNC, with questionable spending recently uncovered. Investigations by Tim Sharp reveal $28,149 in suspicious refunds, hinting at potential financial misconduct involving donation platforms like WinRed. SB221, signed by Governor Brian Kemp, enables leadership committees to bypass traditional campaign finance limits, sidelining the GA GOP and empowering government leadership. This law undermines grassroots candidates, rigging the system against MAGA hopefuls. Cross, a principled businessman, pledges to restore balance and amplify grassroots voices. The 2026 Senate race, with John King and Mike Collins as contenders, underscores the stakes, as Kemp’s influence may outweigh Trump’s. Attend the convention, support Cross, and reclaim the party from establishment control. Visit crossforga.com or GAballots on YouTube for candidate forums.

On June 7th, it is our first opportunity to drain the swamp in Georgia. If you know delegates in the county, you have to tell them to get to Dalton. The game plan is to get them to Dalton to vote. We have to get them to vote for David Cross, Lisa Pierce, Norine Cantor, Laurie McClaine, Cindy Nixon and will revisit asst secretary.
Josh McKoon will continue to tell you that he won the super bowl for Donald Trump and will continue to tell you that he raised $23M but we know that is from the RNC. He tells you that he personally raised $3M and he had to pay for the legal bills for the indicted. Will the RNC get involved in 2026? Yes. Will the national governors association get involved? Hopefully, we know Brian Kemp does not like Burt Jones.
To get to know the candidates you can view all the forums on gaballots account on YouTube or visit crossforga.com for all the forums across the state that have been recorded.
We reported yesterday on the findings by Tim Sharp on the $28,149 refunds. And he found there were people that received a refund that did not donate to the party. There are very qualified people working on smurfing. We don’t have the source documents but there are teams working on it. And more information will be coming from the research. You have all these donation companies, ActBlue WinRed. If you take donations there are clearing houses for the donations. There are ways to launder money but we can’t make any firm statements on what is happening.
You could raise $3M quickly in politics, the GA GOP Inc is happy following the lawmakers and happy with table scraps which fall off the table. $3M is nothing to brag about. There is no question there were enormous legal fees but what is questioned is the equal support between the 3 indictees.
What you will hear is that if David Cross is the chairman it will be a disaster. But we should not support any candidate that supports SB221. The Georgia bill that creates leadership committees is SB221 which was signed into law by Governor Kemp. This bill allows for the creation of leadership committees that can accept contributions, make expenditures and advocate for candidates including during legislative sessions. Now if there is a candidate that is out there that is a good candidate but doesn’t have the money to run and if you are not in the winning group you will not get any help. If you are running for the state house or state senate and don’t buy into their control you don’t stand a chance. Before this law came into place, lawmakers couldn’t raise money while the session was in. It was set up that you couldn't’ raise campaign money so that people couldn’t influence you to get you to support certain bills. The power structure could not allow someone to raise money to run against you. The way to shut it down is to create these leadership committees controlled by the governor, lieutenant governor, party leaders in both chambers of the legislature and nominees for those positions. The gold dome has decided who the nominees are. It is all rigged. The power structure has been taken away from the people.
The goal is to wipe out the party and finalize the take over.
SB221 aims to facilitate fundraising and spending for election-related activities potentially bypassing traditional campaign finance limitations, bypassing the party.
The party is only for ballot access. And they are working each legislative session to eliminate ballot access, rank choice voting, and shift to non-partisan offices. And the threat they always claim when the accountability rule comes up is ballot access. The counties count on qualifying week. Every two years is qualifying week. Everyone that goes into that line goes with their checkbook. And if the GOP says they want accountability they will change ballot access.
Josh McKoon is the GOP chair to make sure nothing happens to the power structure.
If that bill had not passed, the money would be flowing into the GA GOP inc and the lawmaker would be coming to the GA GOP. The lawmakers don’t have to come to our meetings, they don’t have to be a delegate, they don’t need the party. The power structure has moved and Josh has to carry it out. At the top of the power structure is money.
Kemp is at the top of the power structure. They are going de-MAGA the party.
John King gets in the race for Senate. Kemp’s nod may matter more than Trump’s in the senate battle. Pay attention. We are going into 2026. Josh McKoon will say that we have to defeat Ossoff, California’s third senator, and preserve the governor's mansion and stop there. Only recently has he said up and down the ballot because of pressure from David Cross.
Kemp wants to control this senate office.
There is some polling that has come out. MTG runs away with the primary. But she could not win the general election. Now with MTG out Mike Collins shifts into the front. We are still waiting to see if Mike Collins will get in the election. In the general ballot Ossoff is up 5 points over Mike Collins. In the general, MTG did not stand a chance against Ossoff.
John King stepped in. We are going to have every office on the ballot, in the primary it will be a fight for the MAGA title and the fear is that there will not be a MAGA in the end.
If you go June 7th and pick Josh McKoon as chair who is pretending to be MAGA. Josh will not go against the power structure. There is a way to maneuver to correct the balance of power in the state. Josh McKoon is in the power structure, he will play the game of who is the MAGA and play the game of not getting involved in the primary. After we have been duped to get the MAGA candidate, they have to run in the center to win. Then you will be told that you have to vote for the R because any day the R is better than a democrat. And we are back where we started.
If you want to correct the balance of power, you need to go June 7th and vote for David Cross and restore balance. David Cross is the calm balanced business man that will give the grassroots a seat at the table.