Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's 2024 State of the State address, annotated

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp departs the Georgia House chamber after delivering the 2024 State of the State address on Jan. 11, 2024. (Matthew Pearson/WABE)

In his sixth State of the State address, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp did not waste any time acknowledging the election looming later this year.

By the second sentence, Kemp began telling a chamber packed with Georgia lawmakers how Georgians vote in 2024 will “determine what course America takes in the years to come.”

Kemp used his address to draw contrasts between government in Washington and Georgia, painting the state as an oasis of prosperity and limited government, while Congress has become “synonymous with runaway spending, bloated budgets, job-killing regulations, gridlock and partisanship.”