Carter announces the Senate offer and highlights the connections to Trump.

Atlanta-US representative Buddy Carter, R-St. Simons Island is the first Republican to pass on the competition after Governor Brian Kemp's term of office Brian Kemp in the US Senate race next year.

Carter announced his candidacy on Thursday with a 30-second video display, which was published on YouTube and explains the close relationships of the sixth facts of the congress member with Donald Trump.

“Trump has a warrior in Buddy Carter,” says the narrator in the advertisement, who calls Carter as a “Maga Warrior”.

Carter, 67, a former mayor of Pooler and former member of the General Assembly, was elected to the congress in 2014. He represents Georgia's 1st congress district, which covers all six coastal districts and parts of nine regional districts in the southeast of Georgia.

The notification criticizes the democratic acting senator Jon Ossoff because he voted against securing the borders and opposite efforts of the nation at the federal level to ban transgender athletes that were born male in participating in the sports of the girls. Both the illegal immigration and transgender sports problems were on Trump's list of priorities.

With Kemp from the race, the Republican field is expected to be significantly larger. Other members of the GOP delegation from Georgia to the US representative house, which reports to be considered to join the fight, are Mike Collins, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Rich McCormick.

Other top-class potential candidates are the State Secretary of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, and the fire officer of the state insurance and security fire, John King.

Kemp announced on Monday that he would not run for Ossoff's Senate seat. The governor was generally considered the best shot among the Republicans when he had accessed Ossoff from office next year after a single term of office.

This story available by a news partnership with Capitol Beat, an initiative of the Georgia Press Educational Foundation.

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