Josh McLaurin launches campaign for lieutenant governor

WUGA | By Jeff Dantre

Published May 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM EDT

FILE - Georgia state Sen. Josh McLaurin, D-Sandy Springs, speaks to reporters on Feb. 24, 2025 at the state Capitol in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy, file)

Democratic State Senator Josh McLaurin announced Monday that he will run for lieutenant governor next year, promising a campaign focused on fighting President Donald Trump’s agenda.

McLaurin is a lawyer and was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 2018 before moving over to the state Senate in 2022. This year, he has railed on the Senate floor almost daily against Trump’s economic policies and defiance of the rule of law.

McLaurin is the only Democratic candidate thus far to enter the race to succeed Republican Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones, who is widely expected to run for governor.

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Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.

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