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Georgia governor candidate Rick Jackson campaigns in Alpharetta, Ga., Monday, June 15, 2026, before the runoff against Lt. Gov Burt Jones on June 16. (AP Photo/Bill Barrow)

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FILE - Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones speaks at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, Oct. 15, 2024, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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FILE -- Rick Jeffares, then a Republican state senator, prepares to vote on a bill during the legislative session in Atlanta, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. Lt. Gov. Burt Jones and Senate Republicans announced on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024 that they will seek to appoint Jeffares to the State Election Board. (AP Photo/David Goldman, file)

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Georgia Sen. Burt Jones poses for a portrait at the state Capitol, Nov. 16, 2021, in Atlanta. A lawsuit heard on Monday, Dec. 18, 2023, argues that Jones should be disqualified from holding office in Georgia because he acted as an an elector for Republican Donald Trump in 2020 even though Democrat Joe Biden had been certified as winning Georgia's 16 electoral votes. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

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Georgia Sen. Burt Jones poses for a portrait at the state Capitol, Nov. 16, 2021, in Atlanta. A lawsuit heard on Monday, Dec. 18, 2023, argues that Jones should be disqualified from holding office in Georgia because he acted as an an elector for Republican Donald Trump in 2020 even though Democrat Joe Biden had been certified as winning Georgia's 16 electoral votes. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)

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FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2016 file photo, a Delta Air Lines jet sits at a gate at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, in Atlanta. Atlanta city officials are pushing back against a proposal in the Georgia Senate for a state takeover of Atlanta's airport, one of the busiest in the world. Michael Smith, press secretary for Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, said the plan amounted to &quot;theft&quot; in a statement Friday, March 1, 2019. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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