"The Democrats are terrified of Kemp's machine, and they're doing everything to keep it out of the Senate race."
"Forget the man-child from 2020. John Ossoff has been hitting the political weight room for six years, and he is ready to face Collins or Dooley”
The Runoff Reality: High Stakes, Shadow Networks, and the Fight for Georgia’s Future By BKP
Hey folks, welcome back. I’m your host BKP, and you’re reading BKP Politics here on Voice of Rural America.
Today is June 8th, and early voting has officially kicked off for the runoff elections here in Georgia. We’re looking at crucial races across the board—Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, and the U.S. Senate. For this piece, we are going to dive deep into that U.S. Senate race.
Sitting Democrat Senator John Ossoff is currently waiting on the sidelines. Come election night on June 16th (and heading into the morning of the 17th), Ossoff is finally going to know his opponent. It’s down to two men: Derek Dooley or Congressman Mike Collins.
We don’t have the time to hash out all the back history, but we know Mike Collins has taken a bit of a beating lately. He recently had to fire his long-time operative, Brandon Phillips, over some highly publicized controversies. On the other side, Governor Brian Kemp has fully endorsed Derek Dooley.
So, let’s open this up right now: I did not create this situation. I did not create this system. I did not put us where we are today.
My number one goal is keeping the Governor’s office here in Georgia in Republican hands, with Burt Jones at the helm. Period. Every single other race on the ticket, I am analyzing through one lens: How will this affect our ability to win the Governor’s office in November?
The Top of the Ticket and the Down-Ballot Math
A lot of voters are looking at the top of the ticket and asking a simple question. Does Mike Collins give us a better chance of winning the Governor’s office, or does Derek Dooley? People are making their voting decisions based on who gives Republicans the best odds in November, who protects the down-ballot races, and who brings in the necessary campaign cash to support the entire ticket.
Let’s look at the candidates. You have Mike Collins, the sitting Congressman from the 10th District. If Collins becomes the nominee on June 16th, my prediction is that he will probably resign from Congress to get out from under the lingering House Ethics corruption investigation. But that’s just a prediction, so let’s stick to the facts of the election.
Then you have Derek Dooley, backed heavily by Brian Kemp. Meanwhile, Mike Collins is running more as the grassroots Republican candidate. And I get it—grassroots voters are tired of just voting “R.” They want to vote for their candidate. They don’t want to constantly have to worry, “Does voting for my guy hurt our opportunity to win the down-ballot races?”
But folks, that is exactly the reality we are facing.
Welcome to the “Uglies”
Let’s talk about social media. Whether you’re on X, Facebook, TikTok, or Instagram, you have the right to post what you want. But right now, people are publicly declaring who they are voting for, and it is immediately starting a firestorm if it doesn’t align with someone else’s choice. We call this the “uglies.” So, welcome to the uglies, folks. Things are getting nasty and heated.
Let me give you an example. A lot of you know Hank Sullivan over in Forsyth County. Hank recently posted a picture with Derek Dooley and wrote an article on his Substack officially endorsing him. Because Dooley is backed by Kemp, all hell broke loose.
But a lot of people are quietly looking at Dooley as the best option to beat—or at least closely compete with—John Ossoff. I’m not speaking for Hank Sullivan here, but the word on the street is this: If Derek Dooley is the nominee, Brian Kemp is going to campaign for him seven days a week. That effort, and the national fundraising money Kemp brings with him, will dramatically boost our odds in the Governor’s race and help carry the Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, and every other Republican down the ballot.
If Dooley loses and Collins is the nominee? A lot of folks believe Brian Kemp will just pack his bags, issue a generic statement saying, “I support the ticket,” and go home. We need the money that Brian Kemp brings in from all across the country. And if Ossoff ends up beating Collins by five or six points, it could drag the entire down-ballot down with him. And God knows we do not want Keisha Lance Bottoms as Governor.
These are the hard calculations people are making. And the momentum is shifting. Recently, former Lieutenant Governor candidate and State Senator Steve Gooch came out and endorsed Dooley. State Senator Blake Tillery did the same.
John Ossoff Is Not a “Man-Child” Anymore
Let me be very, very clear today: The John Ossoff of 2026 is not the same John Ossoff from six years ago.
You all remember the 2020 version of Ossoff going up against David Perdue. He was the “man-child” who looked like he couldn’t even fill out a white dress shirt. Well, the guy in the blue shirt campaigning today looks like he’s been taking weight gainer. The shirt fits, and he sounds like a grown adult.
He has been a sitting Senator for six years. He is the top-leading fundraiser in the country heading into 2026, Republican or Democrat. He has been trained through every political ringer imaginable, and he is ready.
The Democrats are entirely united. They aren’t fighting over their candidates. At a May 31st rally, Ossoff went straight for the jugular against both GOP rivals. Here is what he said:
“It doesn’t matter which one. They’re both corrupt political insiders, and they’re both pro-war, pro-tariff, and pro-cutting your health care. They’re both Trump puppets, and we will beat either one of them in November.”
On his X account, Ossoff dropped a highly produced video tearing into both men with incredibly well-written lines. He mocked the fact that they tried to get Brian Kemp to run, but Kemp refused. Ossoff framed the race as a choice between a Congressman who only has the job because his daddy was a Congressman, and a coach who was only a coach because his daddy was a coach.
He hammered Collins for being under investigation for funneling taxpayer dollars to a criminal staffer’s girlfriend for no work. Then, he pivoted to Dooley, accusing his family of receiving tens of millions of tax dollars courtesy of Governor Kemp, and then funneling that cash right back into Kemp’s PAC to prop up Dooley’s campaign.
Ossoff is ready for either of them. But there is a clear strategic preference coming from the left.
The Democrat Strategy: Take Out Dooley to Avoid Kemp
Right now, before early voting wraps up, Democrats have launched a massive, coordinated social media attack demanding an investigation into Derek Dooley, his brother Daniel Dooley, and Governor Brian Kemp.
Why? Because Democrats are signaling that they want to take Derek Dooley out of the picture. They do not want to run against Brian Kemp’s political machine. They don’t want to admit it, but Kemp’s polling numbers are very high. If Kemp goes out there and tells the critical block of independent voters that Derek Dooley is okay, Ossoff’s margins shrink dramatically. Maybe he only wins by 1%, or maybe he loses. Either way, that tight margin helps Republicans retain the down-ballot races.
So, the Democrats’ game plan is simple: Get Mike Collins as the nominee. That way, they don’t have to run against Kemp’s operation. If Collins is at the top of the ticket, Ossoff can pull the Democrats across the finish line. Ossoff and Senator Raphael Warnock have already endorsed Democrat Josh McLaurin for Lieutenant Governor, and they are holding rallies right down the line with Keisha Lance Bottoms.
The headlines are already flying. USA Today ran a piece on the “Scandal in the Senate Race,” accusing Kemp and Dooley of pay-to-play politics. 11Alive ran a story last week about Daniel Dooley thriving as his company makes millions in school contracts. WCTV reported Democrats seeking probes into Dooley family donations.
They are whooping everything up into a frenzy right now to destroy Derek Dooley, because they would much rather face Mike Collins.
The Receipts: First Liberty and Centegix
Now, I’m going to tell you something, and if you watch this program, you already know. I brought all of this to you back in 2025. I told you these financial scandals were laying out there, that they weren’t going to go away, and that the Democrats were just waiting to use them.
Let’s go back to November 10th, 2025. On our Rumble channel, I did an episode called “Kemp’s Shadow Empire, Ponzi Schemes, Senate Backstabbing, and the GOP Georgia Meltdown.”
In that episode, I exposed the scandalous financial nexus linking Derek Dooley’s brother, Daniel, to the collapsed $140 million Ponzi scheme run by First Liberty Building and Loan. I showed you the actual receiver’s report from October 30th, 2025. In that document, you clearly see Daniel Dooley’s name tied to a company called CurePoint LLC, alongside Phillip Miles, Mark Miles, and Physician Financial Partners LLC.
The receiver’s report detailed massive loans entered into by CurePoint: $3.65 million in November 2019, $900,000 later that month, $1.5 million in May 2021, and $400,000 in September 2021. CurePoint ended up as a debtor in Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Northern District of Georgia. The receivership filed a claim that was eventually reduced to $300,000, with an evidentiary hearing scheduled for November 13th, 2025.
I told you then: Anyone tied to First Liberty Building and Loan—whether it’s Brant Frost IV, Brant Frost V, Nathaniel Darnell from the Georgia Republican Assembly, or the Dooley family—was going to be targeted by the Democrats. And here it is.
But it doesn’t stop there. On August 19th, 2025, in episode 141 of the Georgia Hour (”Georgia’s Political Royalty Exposed”), I showed you exactly what John Ossoff is talking about right now regarding the pay-to-play allegations.
In November 2022, Governor Kemp established “Hardworking Americans, Inc.,” a federal PAC. Around that time, Kemp lobbied for and signed HB 268 into law, which mandated that all Georgia schools implement crisis response systems. Governor Kemp then offered state safety grants to local school districts to help pay for it.
The main vendor of this product—and the largest benefactor of the legislation—was an Atlanta-based company called Centegix. Who founded Centegix? Daniel Dooley, the brother of U.S. Senate candidate Derek Dooley, and Governor Kemp’s childhood friend. According to state records, Centegix locked down more than $27 million in contracts with Georgia school systems between 2019 and 2023.
And to bring it full circle, according to campaign finance reports, Daniel Dooley donated over $28,000 to various Kemp-aligned political committees, and eventually dropped $100,000 into Kemp’s PAC. Kemp’s PAC has, in turn, poured money into Derek Dooley’s Senate campaign.
I exposed every bit of this last year. I pulled the reports for you well ahead of the Democrats. And now, Ossoff is using this exact playbook to try and sideline Dooley and Kemp.
Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing
Let me make this perfectly clear: This article is not an endorsement of Derek Dooley. And it is absolutely not a statement of support for Brian Kemp. I have none.
My number one focus is the Governor’s office and ensuring Burt Jones keeps Georgia in Republican hands. Who controls the Governor’s office affects your life and my life every single day in this state, in every single way.
If Mike Collins becomes the nominee, Republicans are just going to have to figure out how to fund that campaign, knowing Brian Kemp will likely take his donor network and go home. If Derek Dooley becomes the nominee, we have to weather the storm of these financial scandals that Ossoff is waiting to weaponize.
So, you decide. But stop going after each other online. If someone sees Dooley as the best path to coming close to Ossoff and saving the Governor’s race, respect it. If someone is voting for Collins because they want a true grassroots candidate, respect it.
We are all looking for the best way to win against the Democrats in November, to retain the majority in the State House, the State Senate, our constitutional officers, and the Governor’s mansion.
John Ossoff is not going to be easy to beat. He is not the man-child from 2020. You have the facts. Now, get out there and vote.
That’s part two of our series today. We will start part three on our Lieutenant Governor’s race when we return.
Just another Nugget of Truth with BKP.
