Conservative Candidates Sweep Georgia Supreme Court Elections

www.thefederalist.com ^ | 5/20/26 | Shan Fleetwood

[Midwesterner53]

Georgians handed Democrats a decisive defeat on Tuesday by reelecting two Republican-backed candidates in a pair of highly contested state Supreme Court races.

In one race, incumbent Justice Charles Bethel is projected to defeat leftist Miracle Rankin. Unofficial results show the former beating the latter by 2.2 points, with more than 95 percent of votes tabulated as of publication, according to The New York Times.

Meanwhile, incumbent Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren is projected to defeat left-wing candidate Jen Jordan in a massive landslide. Per the Times, preliminary results show Warren beating Jordan by a whopping 18.6 points, with more than 95 percent of votes counted as of publication.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: celebrate

[Midwesterner53]

Celebrating in Georgia! While the Democrats and Republicans had their primaries yesterday, state wide judicial elections are finalized at the same time. They do not run again in November. In addition to these wins, the voters turned back by large margins liberals at the next lower level GA Court of Appeals also. It was a clean sweep for common sense conservatives.

[CFW]

All conservative appeal court justices won as well. A clean sweep for conservatives in the Georgia judiciary last night.

[gibsonguy]

Looks like Georgia woke up

[Steven Scharf]

incumbent Justice Charles Bethel is projected to defeat leftist Miracle Rankin by 2.2 points

incumbent Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren is projected to defeat left-wing candidate Jen Jordan by a whopping 18.6 points

Can anyone explain why there is such a disproportionate result?

Georgia Supreme Court 1

Charles Bethel 990,039 51.1%
Miracle Rankin 946,644 48.9%
Total 1,936,683

Georgia Supreme Court 2
Sarah Warren 1,139,365 59.3%
Jen Jordan 780,961 40.7%
Total 1,920,326

16,000 vote difference in the total votes. Both were incumbents. The only difference I see is that in Georgia 1, it was a white man vs a black woman. Georgia 2 it was two white woman.

Georgia Recorder

Judicial candidates are elected on a nonpartisan ticket, and they are decided during the May primary rather than the November general election.

Though the candidates were not running on a partisan ticket, Jordan and Rankin’s campaigns were backed by a number of left-leaning groups, including Reproductive Freedom for All, Planned Parenthood Votes and the Democratic Party of Georgia. Both challengers pledged to uphold Georgians’ constitutional rights, and faced ethics complaints over their campaign rhetoric. A lawsuit in the case has been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Both Bethel and Warren received endorsements and financial support from high-profile Republican figures like Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, as well as from conservative groups like Frontline Policy Action, an evangelical 501(c)(4) organization that opposes abortion access.

A third incumbent justice, Benjamin Land, did not have a challenger in the race. He received over 1.6 million votes.

https://georgiarecorder.com/2026/05/20/bethel-warren-hang-on-to-georgia-supreme-court-seats/

[Steven Scharf]

Looks like Georgia woke up

Both of the judges were incumbents and had previously won relection in 2020. Your comment make no sense.

[Steven Scharf]

To put a further nail in your comment, more dems voted yesterday than republicans, yet the two republican supreme court justices won.

Burt Jones 357,927
Rick Jackson 303,442
Brad Raffensperger 140,007
Chris Carr 110,642
Clark Dean 7,046
Gregg Kirkpatrick 5,535
Ken Yasger 4,764
Tom Williams 3,843
933,206

Keisha Lance-Bottoms 607,193
Jason Esteves 201,627
Michael Thurmond 139,567
Geoff Duncan 75,655
Derrick Jackson 24,988
Amanda Duffy 18,772
Olu Brown 12,301
1,080,103

Keisha got almost as many votes as Jones and Jackson.

[gibsonguy]

Ohh K, feel better now?

[citizen]

Egged-on liberal loons will get more violent: their trannie army.

[alternatives?]

Could it be a significant percentage of women voters choose based on sex over party?

[rktman]

Hmmmmm? Will alexandria ocasio chiuhauha suggest the north “pull up” on the south again. You know like “pull up” for a drive by shooting? W.I.N.N.I.N.G!

[marktwain]

The far left took the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2025, with massive infusion of cash to support the far left candidate.

Support for the conservative candidate was much less.

The far left had supported the conservative candidate with lots of money in the primary, to obtain the candidate they though would be easiest to beat in the general election.

It worked. The Wisconsin Supreme Court is now dominated by leftists.

[Steven Scharf]

Not likely, or most of our politicans would be woman.

[CFW]

There are a lot of Democrat attorneys that know crazy when they see it. They don’t want to face an angry black woman on the bench. They voted to keep the incumbents.