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@3YearLetterman @meancandice They should stick to singing and spinning or something

I don’t condone soccer, but I cannot wait to send the Australians back to Vienna where they belong

Let's keep WINNING BIG for Georgia. Have a great weekend! And if you haven't yet, join Team Jackson by signing up at rickjackson.com!

Australians watching their team go down 0-2 to Team USA…

The pressure campaign is on. If you are on the right and you decline to salute the President’s deal with Iran, you are to be otherized — branded a warmonger, a neocon fossil, a man itching to put other people’s sons in the sand. The choice, we’re assured, is binary: boots on the ground or the President’s memorandum. That is a lie, and the people repeating it loudest know it is a lie. Start with the alternative they pretend never existed. Israel had a plan to destabilize the regime from within — and the President personally refused to allow it, at the behest of the Turks. Erdogan picked up the phone, and the option that wasn’t a land war and wasn’t surrender quietly disappeared. So spare me the two doors. There was a third, and Washington bricked it up to keep Ankara comfortable. Now look at what we took instead. The memorandum reopens the Strait of Hormuz “for 60 days only,” after which Iran and Oman decide who passes and what they pay. It dangles a $300 billion reconstruction fund, with Gulf money — Qatar’s prominently — already moving toward Tehran. Iran now says Israel must leave Lebanon or the deal is breached. And the grandson of the regime’s founder has called the war the “lesser jihad,” declared that the “greater jihad” begins now, and hailed the agreement as a victory for Tehran. When your adversary calls the deal a victory, believe him. Then there is the Strait itself — the tell. The entire point of the campaign was to take that chokepoint out of Iran’s hand. Instead, the memorandum leaves the regime holding the switch, free to flip it whenever a strike in Lebanon gives it a pretext, as it has done again and again. A waterway we can reopen by permission of the Ayatollah’s heirs was never reopened. It was rented. And consider the clock. We bombed Iran for roughly thirty-nine days. Then we let nearly seventy days bleed away between the last bomb and the signature — almost twice the length of the war itself — while panic over oil did Tehran’s negotiating for it. Momentum is perishable. The President took a campaign that was working, put it in suspended animation, and is now selling the thaw as a triumph. ewerickson.substack.com/p/the-two-choi…

We’ve had a few days now to digest all of this and this needs to be said: @RickJacksonGA ‘s team took him from 0% to 53% in 133 days. Congrats to @nick_ayers @achambersgop #mikeZ #mckenzievaughn and their teammates who lead this movement with selfless determination. A united team now has 137 days to finish the drill. Let’s go! #gapol #RealLeadersLeading

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world. And they are not handling it well. In the best possible way. Here is what they are discovering: Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time. Free water at every restaurant. Just appears. Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited. Free chips and salsa before you even order. Free warm bread with dinner. Ice in drinks like civilized people. Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact. Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going. Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it. Ranch dressing by the gallon. Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced. Dental care that actually works. Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s. Then they found the grocery stores. Five of them within one mile. Each one the size of an aircraft hangar. Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday. The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes. In silence. Processing. They finally understand why we do not have trains. We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive. Parking lots the size of small European countries. Airports in every city worth visiting. Why would we need trains. The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle. The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak. The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre. The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas. Welcome to America! The greatest country on earth.

@Scot23 @buzzbrockway And redistricting isn’t happening. Just more falsehoods and scare tactics from our friends at (un)FairFight.

What a weird thing to spend money on. Kemp isn’t running for anything, and Fair Fight has the credibility of a Frost at a Crypto investment conference.

This take is demonstrably false. The bill increases the number of audits for 2026. For those who read the post, they will find legal rules changes that can be made by the SEB. Stay tuned on that.

We could have actually had a great #Iran deal if only @Mike_Pence had the courage.

Debunking all five talking points on the Iran deal.

@CarolineVakil @ColeMuzio @carolineVakil said something similar to @politico: “The Trump endorsement has an effect, but it’s not overwhelming. It’s not the end-all-be-all for politics in Georgia." It's like a reference in a job interview, it helps, but won't by itself get the job. politico.com/news/2026/06/1…

This is emblematic of the fact that Georgia Republicans have a unique willingness to buck President Trump and his picks when they want to. @ColeMuzio, president of Frontline Policy Council, mentioned the same thing to me when I asked if Trump's endorsement had helped him decide who he should vote for in the runoff: “A Trump endorsement for me does not move the needle as much when you’re trying to look at, ‘OK, what’s the path forward in a general election?’" thehill.com/homenews/campa…

Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!

Incredible victory tonight! @RickJacksonGA

Decision Desk HQ projects Timothy Fleming wins the GA Secretary of State Republican Runoff #DecisionMade: 7:14 PM EDT

Today is Election Day. Please join me in voting for @RickJacksonGA for Governor. He’s a man of character and integrity who will cut taxes, grow jobs and ensure Georgia’s best days are ahead of us. Polls close at 7 pm. Check your polling place here and get out the vote for Rick Jackson: mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

@johnfkennedyga Good luck @johnfkennedyga. Was proud to vote for you today in Cobb County!

Susan, Will, and I were honored to vote this morning in Monroe County. It was a quick process — get out and vote!

ENDORSEMENT WARS ‘26 DO NOT OPEN UNTIL TOMORROW MORNING #gapol

This weekend’s news hasn’t changed my mind. Still standing proudly behind these two candidates. Voting for @RickJacksonGA and @DerekDooleyGA tomorrow.

If you’re a campaign already running an effective 72 campaign after an effective early voting GOTV operation, then last minute surprises don’t matter. If last minute surprises matter, your campaign is not effective.