By Dave Williams | Capitol Beat News Service Jun 4, 2021
5 hrs ago
ATLANTA - U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., has drawn the most well-known Republican challenger to date to his looming reelection bid next year.
Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Gary Black entered the 2022 Senate race Friday with a speech at the state Republican convention on Jekyll Island.
âWarnock and [President Joe] Biden promised to âfundamentally change America,â â Black told the delegates. âTheyâre five months into it and job growth and opportunity are down, inflation, debt and gas prices are up, [and] the Middle East is back at war.â
After heading the Georgia Agribusiness Council, Black was elected agriculture commissioner in 2010. He was reelected in 2014 and 2018, receiving more votes than any of the candidates for governor or Senate.
Friday on
Political Rewind: House Speaker David Ralston (R-Blue Ridge) joined the show to discuss a recent visit with Republican leaders in Congress and speculation he is considering a run for the U.S. Senate in 2022.
Ralston, a top leader of Republican lawmakers in the General Assembly, said he was interested in the role representing Georgia in the U.S. Congress, but had not made a decision yet. Decision-making is a process, not an event, the Blue Ridge Republican told us. And so we re kind of taking a look and seeing how it feels.
Ralston has served in the state House of Representatives since 2002 and represents House District 7, which includes Fannin and Gilmer counties and a portion of Dawson County in north Georgia. He is the 73rd Speaker of the Georgia House, a position he has held since 2010.
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