The former Tennessee Derek Dooley coach announces the bid of Senate 2026 in Georgia

Atlanta (AP) – former Tennessee Football coach Derek Dooley on Monday announced his 2026 Republican bid in the US Senate in the US Ossoff.
Dooley at the age of 57 is supported by GOV. Brian Kemp and has been funny with bid from June. Jo Neither join the GOP field that includes US reps. Buddy Carter and Mike Collins, and a reagan activist.
Kemp has turned to Dooley after you decide not to run on his seat. Georgia Republicans look up at OssAff, considered a democratic reading that wants democracy next year.
“The specialists such as Jon Ossoff is a problem,” Dooley said two-minute video “lawlessness, opening season, the inflation, which is why I work in Senate.” This is what I work with Senate. “I’m working on Senate.” This is what I work on the net. “I’m running a net.”
Kemp and Trump meet and say they will try to agree with the candidate. Anyone who is nominated both can be stamped as a prep-run-runner. Kemp told Collins and others on July 24 that he would support the Doorgia of the Commission Insurance John King who would take the race. But Trump is ready to allow for the moment and Dooley moves forward without Trump’s blessing, indication that joint effort is to waste.
Dooley has never set up a selection offices. He said he would run as politician, David David Perdue traveled to Georgia to find the election in Nate in 2014. Dooley said he would bring president Trump, “
DOOLY is the son of the most famous university of Georgia Coach Vince Dooley and a lawyer before going training. Derek Dooley was widely seen in three years as the Tennessee coach, including a record 15-21 with volunteers in the year of Dallas Cowboy, University of Missoid and the University of Alabama.
As a teenager, Ikemp was a very common tourist, and he slept with Derek’s older brother, Daniel Doley, at the University of Georgia. The Kemp has a well-educated republican political party in Georgia, and Dooley is rented for Kemps to KERGE HELD, including Cody Hall Childy Hall and Fundraiser Chelsey RupperM.
But a few reports allowed Collins after entering the scene last week, including US Speaker Newt Ginrich. Support and Congressman are government lips including the Senate Jason Anevitart leader. Even one of the official support leaders of Kemp in State House, rep. Matthew Gmalbill, the dedicated methods of the governor to promote collins.
Opposers have already postponed the failure to support Trump before now. Someone presented the University of University of Tennessee-Themed website called “Dooley’s Verloneers” criticizing DOOLEY for the lack of saved discussions, focused on quotes from Dooley’s Tenure Tur.
It is the latest and recent pedestal of the Kemp Police, who hit Kelly Loefferle as Senator of US before he lost Democrat Raphel Marnomoff in 2021. His campaign was suffering from conflict between Kemp and Trump, who chose another person. Losses by Peeffe and Looffler in Ossaff and Warlock, respectively, controlled by US Senate in Democrats.
Then, in 2022, Trumped Georgia Football Legend Walker as a suggested Republican. Walker’s approval was organized and kemp only entered only to fleeing, winning Warock.
Their 2026 unected combined effort produced certain results – the US rep. Marjorie Taylor Green is refused the Senate Run after pressure from other Republicans.
Dooley would be far from the first football trainer to work for the position. His late father often shared an election and mother, Barbara Dooley, who lost the Coach Coach Tuvville wasted in Alabama and now runs the ruler. University of Nebraska Coaching Legend Tom Osborne worked three words in the US House.
Dooley went to the University of Virginia and received a scholarship as a broader receiver. He was graduated from the University of Georgia and worked briefly in Atlanta in Atlanta prior to work in the training of training.