A Georgia Governor Candidate's Nearly $200 Million Personal Campaign
Rick Jackson, the Republican candidate for Georgia governor, has spent nearly $200 million personally on his campaign. That puts him among the largest self-funding candidates in the history of American elections.
His campaign motto frames him as going from foster care to billionaire. Unlike Trump, who was born to wealth, Jackson spent his early years bouncing through foster homes before launching his first company as a young man.
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The motto is doing a lot of work: it turns a nearly $200 million self-funded campaign into a redemption story.
Pushback
The story is contested: Democratic nominee Keisha Lance Bottoms disputes Jackson's altruistic pitch, so the foster-care-to-billionaire frame is a campaign claim under attack.