Michael Thurmond officially enters the Georgia governor's race with a moderate approach

Michael Thurmond officially enters the Georgia governor's race with a moderate approach

Michael ThurmondPhotograph courtesy of Michael Thurmond For more than a year, Michael Thurmond traveled across the state giving dozens of talks to groups of Georgians with barely a mention of his plan to run for governor in the 2026 election. He talked instead about the book he’d written about the life of James Oglethorpe, the British nobleman who’d founded Georgia as an abolitionist colony even though he’d once been an officer in England’s Roya…