Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is at the center of intense speculation as Republicans wait to see whether the popular two-term governor will run against Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) next year.

Republicans believe Kemp would clear the field and be the party’s most formidable candidate against Ossoff, a first-term senator who beat a Trump-backed Republican in one of the biggest upsets of the 2020 election cycle.

“It’s kind of the parlor game in Georgia right now,” quipped prominent conservative commentator Erick Erickson of the “will-he-or-won’t-he” decision Kemp has to make.

“Everybody hopes he runs in ‘26, but he's not really given an indication right now as to what he does.”

During an interview this week with Martha Zoller, a conservative radio host who once worked for Kemp, the GOP governor — who’s been busy trying to pass tort reform before the end of the Georgia Legislature’s session in April — offered no indication about his future moves.

At the same time, he didn’t waste the opportunity to remind listeners about his role in Georgia’s elections last cycle.

“I tell people, Martha, my focus right now is on my day job. I got two responsibilities outside my family and my business, and that is, number one is I’m the governor of the great state of Georgia,” he said.

“And we made a commitment during this last campaign cycle, when I was helping House candidates, helping President Trump win Georgia and lot of other good people on the ballot, that we would deliver on the things that we were promising. And that's what I'm focused on doing the next two and a half months during the legislative session.”

Kemp is under some pressure to challenge Ossoff.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), chair of the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, told Semafor last month that “we are........

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