GEORGIA GOP: It Is Leaderless, Rigged and Heading for 2026 Disaster

In this explosive December 1, 2025 episode of The Georgia Hour on Voice of Rural America, host BKP pulls no punches as he declares the Georgia Republican Party a total disaster heading into the critical 2026 elections.

Key points covered:
The May 2025 Georgia GOP state convention was blatantly rigged to re-elect Josh McKoon as chairman over challenger David Cross. BKP, who has participated in county, district, and state conventions for years, says the manipulation went far beyond the infamous “clicker” controversy.
Josh McKoon has zero leadership ability, cannot unite any faction (MAGA, GRA, rural counties, black or Hispanic Republicans, paper-ballot advocates), and rules through vindictive back-room deals, fear, and a clique of “self-celebrity” phonies who care more about selfies than winning.
The shocking weekend resignation of 19-year-old JaQuan Stembridge, the youngest person ever elected to statewide GOP office (Assistant Secretary). Stembridge, a black college student from Greene County, was allegedly caught in an amateur sting operation trying to meet a 14-year-old boy for sex (videos circulating widely, no charges filed yet). BKP insists the kid was exploited from day one—paraded around as a diversity “prize,” lavished with dinners, clothes, and money by party insiders, never mentored, and possibly set up. He argues the party should never have allowed a 19-year-old with no leadership experience into such a position.
With the Trump/Fulton County RICO case finally dead, Brad Raffensperger is officially running for governor as a Republican, and the party is too incompetent to stop him. Burt Jones’s early “dark money” attack ads are already running and will only get worse if he’s the nominee.
2026 outlook is grim: Senate race (Buddy Carter, Mike Collins, or others vs. incumbent Jon Ossoff), governor’s race (Raffensperger, Burt Jones, Chris Carr, possibly MTG), plus down-ballot seats. Republicans control every statewide office yet just lost two PSC seats and risk getting crushed on crime, education, and electric rates because of zero leadership and infighting.
BKP’s blunt bottom line: Josh McKoon should resign immediately. The current Georgia GOP “Inc.” is bankrupt, leaderless, vindictive, and more concerned with photo-ops than winning. Without a total teardown and rebuild, 2026 will be a bloodbath.
A fiery, no-holds-barred hour of rural Georgia conservative talk that names names, exposes back-room deals, and demands the party clean house before it’s too late.