Josh McLaurin running for lieutenant governor

Josh McLaurin File State Sen Josh McLaurin D-Sandy Springs declared Monday that he will run for lieutenant governor next year promising a campaign focused on fighting President Donald Trump s agenda McLaurin a lawyer was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in before moving over to the state Senate in This year he has railed on the Senate floor almost daily against Trump s economic policies and defiance of the rule of law One hundred days in the Trump administration is tanking the commercial sector and ignoring court orders McLaurin noted But the Republicans running the state of Georgia are silent about Trump s needless tariffs and his violations of Americans basic legal rights Instead Georgia Republicans spent the legislative session sucking up to Trump and trying to copy his destructive DOGE approach to leadership Georgia should be putting up every obstacle feasible to Trump s authoritarian agenda at the state level And while we re at it the Georgia legislative should be passing widely popular policies that Republicans have been blocking for years Medicaid expansion restorative of reproductive freedom common-sense gun safety act and more McLaurin scheduled a p m news conference Monday at the Port of Savannah to announce his candidacy and highlight the expected impacts of Trump s tariffs on supply chains He also published a list of endorsements he has received including the names of seven state senators members of the Georgia House of Representatives and several local elected bureaucrats McLaurin is the only Democratic candidate thus far to enter the race to succeed Republican Lt Gov Burt Jones who is widely expected to run for governor The post Josh McLaurin running for lieutenant governor appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta