Former football coach Derek Dooley announces Georgia Senate bid for 2026

There is a new Republican candidate jumping to one of the most important Senate races in the mid -term elections.

Derek International, a long football coach, highlighted his external credentials, a goal of democratic Senator John Osov from Georgia, and offered his support to President Donald Trump when he announced his candidacy on Monday.

“I am nominated because our state needs a new leadership in Washington, DC, and professional politicians such as John Osov are the problem,” Dolly said in a statement and video.

International argued that “our country has no voice in the US Senate, which reflects the values of Georgia because Osov is more interested in protecting his political future, opposing everything the Trump administration is working to achieve, and voting over and over again with the extremist left.”

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He pledged that if he was elected to the Senate, “I will work with President Trump to implement his agenda, support his administration, and go ahead in our country.”

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Georgia’s Senate Race is very important for Republicans who aim to expand the current majority of the Senate 53-47, where they look at OSSOFF, which is nominated for their re-election in the battlefield state that Trump frankly in the presidential competition last year, as the most vulnerable democracy in the polls in Midterms for the next year.

International, the son of the Georgia University coach in Georgia, Vince International, was a university soccer player later worked as a main coach at Louisiana University of Technology and Tennessee University in addition to an assistant coach in the National Football League.

While this is his first outlet for public positions, the republican sources asserts to Fox News that he is expected to have the support of the ruler Brian Kemp, the famous conservative Republican ruler in Georgia.

International Republican Candidate is currently the third lead in the Georgia Senate.

Derik, an international, a former college coach and a professional football coach, announced on Monday his candidacy for the nomination of the Republican Senate in Georgia. (Derik International Campaign)

Duration over a period Representative Mike Collins, A businessman announced the founding of a truck transport company that represents a large group of urban, suburban and rural areas between Atlanta and Augusta, his candidacy a week ago. Collins, Trump’s ally and supporter in the House of Representatives, offered his support for the president in launching his campaign.

Representative Body Carter, who represented a decade of time in the coastal region of Georgia, launched the Senate Campaign in the Spring. He also flirts with the president’s support.

My international seemed to take a jury for his competitors to nominate, saying: “I am not part of the political establishment, and I did not spend my life climbing the political ladder DC.”

He pledged to “run to put Georgia in the first place and achieve a good sense to the Georgians who know that biological men should not play in women’s sports, and people must keep their money hard, and open our borders that make us less safe.”

Dooley has been a long -term friend of KEMP, and two senior political advisers of the ruler help Dooley in the Senate Race.

Earlier this year she made it clear the launch of Kembe, which was widely recruited by National Republicans to take over OSSOFF, but earlier this year to launch his private campaign in the Senate in 2026, in recent days it will confirm Dooley, and familiar sources confirmed to Fox News.

Fox News Digit, Green Brian Kemp, was interviewed at a meeting of the Republican Conservative Society in Washington, DC on February 20, 2025. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)

Meanwhile, sources in the political orbit of Trump and the Republican sources in Georgia Ali Fox News confirmed that there is an agreement between the president’s political process and the Ketep political team that they will work together to find a candidate who can all unite him to take over to take over the Senate race.

These sources also confirmed that Kemb and Trump – the maker of the final kings in the Republican Party policy – met last month to discuss the Senate race in Georgia.

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But when the governor presented the name of the former football coach at Tennessee Derik International University, a source close to the president’s political team said, “They were told that the Trump team was not ready to move forward with anyone.”

Donald Trump is walking with the governor of Georgia Brian Kemp after he spoke at a temporary shelter for relief during his visit to the areas affected by Hurricane Helen, on Friday, October 4, 2024, in Evans, Georgia. (AP Photo/EVAN VUCCI)

When Kembe and his team advanced forward with Dooley, Trump’s advisers, who, according to the sources, disturbed “very annoyed” that Kembe had gone through earlier this year to facing Ossoff in the Senate Race.

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“We had a deal to work together.” “Kemp went out on his own – which led to his frustration from the orbit of Trump and disturbed him.”

But a source close to the ruler told Fox News that it is not actually true that they were told to stop in Doley. The source added that Kembe means what he said he wanted to work with the president and his team and remains this way.