{"id":139327,"date":"2024-11-28T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=139327"},"modified":"2024-11-28T14:17:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:17:42","slug":"the-2026-georgia-governors-race-kicks-off-with-a-first-hat-in-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=139327","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The 2026 Georgia Governor\u2019s Race Kicks Off with a First Hat in the Ring&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/21\/us\/politics\/georgia-governor-race-2026.html?smid=em-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;The Republican attorney general of Georgia, Chris Carr, announced his candidacy for governor in the state on [November 21st], marking the start of another frenzied midterm-election cycle directly on the heels of the presidential contest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Mr. Carr, 52, is the first candidate of either major party to declare his candidacy for statewide office in Georgia in 2026. In his campaign announcement, he said he would govern in the mold of Georgia\u2019s past conservative governors, including Nathan Deal and Sonny Perdue, as well as Gov. Brian Kemp, who will be subject to term limits once he completes his second term in 2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;The Republican attorney general of Georgia, Chris Carr, announced his candidacy for governor in the state on [November 21st], marking the start of another frenzied midterm-election cycle directly on the heels of the presidential contest. Mr. Carr, 52, is the first candidate of either major party to declare his candidacy for statewide office&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139329,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139327\/revisions\/139329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}