By

Ed Kilgore,

political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015

Rick Jackson speaks at his Election Night watch party on May 19, 2026, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Donald Trump hates to associate himself with losers. He’s reportedly still angry that his advisers talked him into endorsing Iowa gubernatorial candidate Randy Feenstra, who lost on June 2. Now he has another big L on his forehead in a state where he’s had many troubles before. In Tuesday’s Georgia runoff election, self-funding billionaire Rick Jackson beat Trump’s candidate, Burt Jones, for the GOP gubernatorial nomination.