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Before Lt. Gov. Burt Jones took the stage on Tuesday night to kick off his campaign for governor , some of his closest allies stepped up to the podium to warm up the crowd in a full-circle moment thick with irony.

Two of the highest-profile spots were reserved for his former Republican colleagues in the state Senate — Brandon Beach of Alpharetta, who has gone on to become the U.S. treasurer, and state Sen. Greg Dolezal of Cumming, who is prepping his own 2026 bid for lieutenant governor.

They were once among the handful of state Senate renegades punished by then-Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan for backing President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.

The payback from Duncan came on the second day of the 2021 legislative s

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