Trump's endorsement fails to save MAGA candidate as billionaire advances in key governor race

ATLANTA, Ga. — President Donald Trump's endorsement wasn't enough to boost Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones to victory Tuesday night in the ballot-box showdown for the southeastern battleground state's Republican gubernatorial nomination. Jones was defeated by billionaire businessman Rick Jackson in the GOP runoff election for Georgia governor , the Associated Press reports, in the race to succeed term-limited conservative Gov. Brian Kemp. Jackson, who shelled out over $100 million of his own money o