Governor

His signature education cause is foster youth — having grown up in foster care, he highlights tuition-free public college for former foster children — and he has pledged to ban DEI in public schools. He has offered few specifics on broader K-12 policy.

Opposes full Medicaid expansion; instead favors federal Medicaid block grants tied to work requirements, which he argues let states “spend that money more responsibly.” As a health-care executive, he pitches lower costs through price transparency, better technology, and cutting out the “middlemen” he says inflate prices. In August 2026 the AJC reported that his investment group is the bankruptcy lender to a distressed hospital in Alabama — another state that has not expanded Medicaid — on a $35 million loan at 14% interest, after his staffing company was left with about $10 million in unpaid bills there. See the accountability section below.

Has not called for raising the minimum wage; his economic plan leans on cutting income and property taxes and a “dignity through work” approach — expanding job training and tying public assistance to work for able-bodied adults — rather than wage mandates. Georgia's floor is the federal $7.25.

Offers no specific homelessness plan; his housing message is freezing and then cutting property taxes so families aren't “priced out of their homes,” paired with the “dignity through work” requirement tying aid to work or job training.

Has not laid out a veterans-specific platform. His signature personal cause is foster youth — he backed tuition-free college for former foster children — while his action plan centers on taxes, public safety, education, and immigration.

Hardline enforcement, closely aligned with Trump. In a campaign ad he warned that “criminal illegals” who commit violent crimes will “get deported — or departed” when he is governor; immigration enforcement is a centerpiece of his platform.

A Second Amendment supporter who opposes new gun restrictions; gun rights and public safety run through his Trump-aligned platform.

“Entirely pro-life” and supports Georgia's six-week ban. In recorded campaign remarks he indicated he would ban abortion even in cases of rape and pursue charges against providers; he later said he supports the current law as written.

Opposed. He defines marriage as “one man and one woman,” would bar transgender girls from girls' sports and bathrooms, and calls socially or medically transitioning a minor “child abuse.”

Campaigns on eliminating DEI in state government and schools, telling WSB-TV “I believe in diversity and inclusion. I don't believe in equity… period.” Reporting notes his own Jackson Healthcare previously ran diversity-hiring initiatives — a former HR executive there says hiring of people of color rose sharply under those efforts — which he now vows to end statewide.

Has not addressed marijuana legalization; his platform is silent on it. Georgia currently permits only low-THC medical cannabis, with recreational use illegal.

Pro-data-center, but campaigning on local control. He wants Georgia to be a hub for the industry and is personally invested in a data center, arguing well-structured deals can cut local property taxes and power bills without passing costs to ratepayers. On the trail in August 2026 he put the decision with communities: “As far as data centers, the key is that every community has to have control over this issue,” framing it as a local trade — “No property taxes for the data center, or don't have one. It's totally up to them.” That is a notable softening from a straight growth pitch, and it moves him closer to the guardrails language now coming from Georgia Republicans in Congress.