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From CHATGPT:

Major Statewide Races & Candidates

Office Party   Declared / Running Notes

Governor        Republican     Burt Jones (Lt. Gov.)    Has Trump’s endorsement

Republican     Chris Carr (current AG)

Democrat        Michael Thurmond

Democrat        Keisha Lance Bottoms

Democrat        Ruwa Romman

Office Party   Declared / Running Notes

Attorney General      Republican     Bill Cowsert (State Senator)

Republican     Brian Strickland (State Senator)

Democrat        Tanya F. Miller (State Rep)

Democrat        Bob Trammell (Former House Minority Leader)

Office Party   Declared / Running Notes

Secretary of State    Republican     Tim Fleming (State Rep)

Republican     Kelvin King

Republican     Gabriel Sterling

Democrat        Penny Brown Reynolds

Democrat        Adrian Consonery Jr.

Office Party   Declared / Running Notes

State Superintendent of Schools Republican              Richard Woods (incumbent)

Republican     Bubba Longgrear

Republican     Mesha Mainor (former State Rep)

Republican     Randell Trammell

Democrat        Otha Thornton

Office Party   Declared / Running Notes

Labor Commissioner           Republican              Bárbara Rivera Holmes (incumbent)

Republican     Ross Williams

Some U.S. House Races & Other Notable Ones

• GA-10 (U.S. House):

Republican: Houston Gaines has declared for the open seat (incumbent Mike Collins is running for Senate).

Democrat: Lexy Doherty declared; also Dantwan Watkins filed paperwork.

• GA-11 (U.S. House):

Incumbent Barry Loudermilk (R) and Chase Laminack (D) are in the general election field.

From the AJC September 18, 2025:

Medicaid cuts ahead prompt Lavonia hospital to shutter childbirth unit

Excerpts:

A hospital in rural Georgia is closing its labor and delivery unit, saying its precarious finances could not weather further funding cuts called for in President Trump’s new tax and spending law.

• Like many rural hospitals in Georgia, officials at St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in Lavonia said they face challenges recruiting physicians to the area and are contending with an aging population and fewer young women having babies.
• “We are feeling very desperate and destitute,” said Kristy Wynn, who works at the Hart Life Pregnancy Care Center in nearby Hartwell, a city of about 4,500 near the South Carolina border.
• “Our fear is there’s going to be highway deliveries. There’s going to be women on the side of the road having babies and no prenatal care.”

Republicans point out their provision in the bill of $50 billion for investment in rural health care, but who gets the money is still to be determined—and it’s expected to offset only about one-third of the cuts to rural health elsewhere in the bill. The new funding is also temporary and not limited to just hospitals.

“Many struggling hospitals already teetering on the edge have seen the federal cuts as a death knell. A clinic in rural Nebraska, scheduled to shutter Sept. 30, was the first health facility to announce it was closing as a result of the law.”

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