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Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson was a CEO member of the Job Creators Network in 2015 and used its employee-outreach program at his company, Jackson Healthcare, liberal outlet MeidasTouch reported on Friday.

The outlet, citing JCN slide decks, says Jackson Healthcare took part in the group’s Employer to Employee Communications Program, meant to get workers to advocate on business issues. It says the sessions covered how the minimum wage, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Affordable Care Act affect jobs, and involved Jackson’s 75 corporate employees.

MeidasTouch says the program’s video described the “perils of Obamacare,” and that materials argued that a higher minimum wage and power-plant emission rules would hurt workers....

A billionaire running for governor with President Donald Trump's backing is facing a damaging accusation from Trump's own federal government.

The Internal Revenue Service has accused Rick Jackson, the Republican nominee for Georgia governor, of manipulating his company's taxes, The Daily Beast reported Thursday. According to a July court document, the agency alleges that the Jackson Investment Group, which serves as the parent company of his businesses, attempted to deduct bad debt on loans it had already written off in prior years.

"Petitioner is playing a shell game with the alleged Family Christian debt," the IRS wrote, alleging the company mixed up separate entities and loans in an effort to make its deduction hold up on paper....

President Donald Trump interrupted his own remarks at a Georgia rally Friday to hint at an explosive new scandal involving former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter — but offered few details about what happened.

The moment came as Trump was attacking Biden during his speech in Dalton when he suddenly brought up the former president’s family.

“Oh, did you see what came out today about Joe Biden with his son and Ukraine?” Trump asked....

An ex-GOP pollster says one MAGA Senate candidate's disastrous debate night previews a much bigger problem for the GOP in November.

Sarah Longwell, the anti-Trump Republican strategist who publishes The Bulwark, said Friday on "The Secret Podcast" that Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) was left "sputtering in a pool of his own urine" during Thursday's Georgia Senate debate, and she warned the performance reflects a slate of GOP candidates that could keep Republican voters home.

"Now, I had not seen a lot of Mike Collins," Longwell told co-host Jonathan V. Last. "But he was left sputtering in a pool of his own urine as Jon Ossoff scared the living daylights out of him with his level of competency."...

A Republican Senate hopeful absorbed a debate-stage takedown that political observers are calling one of the harshest they've ever seen.

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) faced off against Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) Thursday night during their first debate in Georgia's closely watched Senate race, telling the Republican, "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club."

Ossoff tied the line to a social media post from Collins. "This is a man who cheered on a group of young men who were mocking a Black woman on a college campus," Ossoff said. Collins kept his head down and appeared to be jotting notes during Ossoff's attacks, per video from independent journalist Aaron Rupar....

Georgia's Republican-controlled State Election Board is asking the Justice Department to declare the state's voting machines illegal ahead of the midterms.

In a letter sent Thursday, board Executive Director James Mills asked Attorney General Todd Blanche and Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who heads the DOJ Civil Rights Division, to "prohibit" the state's QR code-based vote counting. Mills also urged federal officials to "set a binding six-month deadline" for Georgia to switch to a different voting system.

The letter takes aim at the ballot-marking devices Georgia voters use to make their picks, which turn those selections into QR codes that scanners later read. Mills argued that "unreadable, unverifiable QR code-based vote tabulation" runs afoul of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) because voters can't check the vote that actually gets counted....