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One of the most important Senate races in the mid -term elections of 2026 is jumping a new Republican candidate.
Former -long football coach Derek Dole highlighted the credibility of his external realization, targeted Georgia’s Democratic Sen John Ossoff, and showed his support for President Donald Trump, announcing his candidature on Monday.
“I’m running because our state needs new leadership in Washington DC, and professional politicians like John Osoff have problems,” Dole said in a statement and video that he started his campaign.
Dole argued that “our state does not have a voice in the American Senate that reflects the values of Georgia because Ossoff is more concerned with protecting its own political future, opposing everything working to complete the Trump administration, and repeatedly vote with extreme left.”
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And he vowed that if he is selected for the Senate, “I would work with President Trump to implement his agenda, support his administration, and our country can be carried forward.”
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The Senate race in Georgia is important for the Republican, which is aimed at expanding its current 53-47 Senate majority, as they look at the Ossoff, running for a re-election in a battlefield, which Trump did by Trump as the weakest democrats in last year’s affairs last year.
Republican Sen see John Ossoff as the weakest Democrat for the re -election in the mid -term elections of 2026. (AP)
Dole, who is a college football player of the legendary university of Georgia’s football coach Vins Dole, who later worked as a head coach at Louisiana Tech University and Tennessi University as well as a assistant coach in the National Football League.
While this is his first run for the public office, Republican sources confirmed Fox News that he hoped to support the popular two-term Conservative Republican Governor Govan Kemp.
Dole became the third major Republican candidate in the Senate race of Georgia.
Derek Dole, a pre -prolonged college and professional football coach, announced their candidature for Republican Senate nomination in Georgia on Monday. (Derek Dole Campaign)
Two periods Rape. Mike Collins, A businessman who founded a trucking company, which represents a large self -interest of urban, suburban and rural areas between Atlanta and Augusta, declared his candidature a week ago. Trump’s associate and supporter Collins in the House showed his support for the President at his campaign launch.
And rape. Buddy Carter, who has represented a district in coastal Georgia for a decade, launched a Senate campaign in the spring. He is also explaining the support of the President.
Dole appeared to take a job on his two rivals for nomination, “I am not a part of a political establishment, and I have not spent my life to climb DC political ladder.”
He said that he is “running to keep Georgia first and DC brings general knowledge to the Georgians, knowing that organic men should not play in women’s games, hardworking people should keep their money more, and open our borders makes us less secure.”
Dole is a long -time friend of Kamp, and two top political advisors of the governor are helping Dole with his Senate run.
Term-Limated Camps, which was heavily recruited by the National Republican to take Ossoff, but was passed in 2026 earlier this year to launch his own Senate campaign, in recent times it has made it clear that he would support Dole, sources introduced Fox News.
Georgia village. Brian Kemp has been interviewed by Fox News Digital at a meeting of Republican Governors Association at Washington DC on February 20, 2025. (Fox News – Paul Sinehoser)
Meanwhile, sources in Trump’s political class and Republican sources in Georgia confirmed Fox News that the President’s political operations and the political team of Kemps had an agreement that they would work together to find a candidate that they could unite to take Osoff in all the Senate races.
Those sources also confirmed that Kemp and Trump – GOP met last month to discuss the Senate race in Georgia – GOP – GOP.
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But when the governor swam the name of Tennessy Football Coach Derek Dole of the former University, a source of the President’s political team said, “They were asked to stand down, as Trump’s team was not ready to move forward on anyone.”
Donald Trump joined hands with Georgia village. Brian Kemp after speaking in a temporary relief shelter, as he visits the affected areas in Evans, GA on Hurricane Helen, Friday, October 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ivan Wuki)
And when Camp and his team proceeded with Dole, it harassed Trump’s advisors, according to sources, “already very angry” that Kemp passed on taking Ossoff in the Senate race earlier this year.
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“We had a deal to work together,” a top political source of Trump Orbit recently told Fox News. “Kemp went out on his own – who is disappointed and angry with Trump’s orbit.”
But a source close to the governor told Fox News that it was not factually true that he was asked to stand on the dole. And the source said that Kemp meant that he said that he wanted to work with the President and his team and remain in this way.
