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Georgia’s ‘foster care to billionaire’ GOP gubernatorial candidate calls his fortune ‘God’s money’ while spending $200 million
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He’s hardly the first billionaire to promise working-class voters he’ll fight for them in public office.
Key facts
- But Jackson’s path differs from Donald Trump’s, and the 72-year-old healthcare magnate and investor brings a vastly different persona to his first campaign
- He says he will expand healthcare without expanding Medicaid under the 2010 Affordable Care Act
- In July, Jackson stood with Trump in Marietta and expressed his hope to “be this guy’s favorite governor.” When Trump returned to Dalton on Oct
- Jackson’s balancing act is enough for Debbie Satterfield, a 72-year-old who came to a Jackson rally in White County wearing both a Trump shirt and a Jackson sticker
Summary
But Jackson’s path differs from Donald Trump’s, and the 72-year-old healthcare magnate and investor brings a vastly different persona to his first campaign. Now, he wants to leverage both his similarities and contrasts with the president, a challenge he’s tackling with buckets of his own campaign cash and a personal story that anchors his appeal to voters. “I have lived in poverty,” Jackson says. Democratic nominee Keisha Lance Bottoms, a former Atlanta mayor, disputes Jackson’s altruistic pitch, setting up the Nov. 3 election as a test of whether an alternate, softer version of conservative billionaire politics can complement or even counter Trump’s pugilistic populism in a key swing state.