Will Sports Betting Be Legalized in Georgia by 2025?

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00:00Let's start off with a state in the South, Georgia.

00:06Hey, look at here, maybe a possibility, maybe a possibility that sports betting comes to

00:12Georgia in the next year or so.

00:13I mean, yeah, this is, again, something you and I talk about all the time the past couple

00:18of years is because Georgia has been one of the states that seems like it could get it

00:22done.

00:23Of course, they run into issues every year that kind of break it up and it doesn't get

00:26done.

00:28But earlier this month, that PrizePix, the daily fantasy sports company that offers a

00:33suite of Pick'em products, opened a new, they hadn't opened it, it was a ribbon cutting

00:37for their new headquarters in Atlanta.

00:39And Governor Brian Kemp showed up and he said, you know what, I've been neutral on sports

00:44betting.

00:45I remain that way.

00:46That's my, you know, I'm paraphrasing, of course, but this is, you know, I'm going to

00:50stay neutral.

00:51However, if you're going to do it, let's put this money to good use and kind of outline

00:57some things like K through 12 education and, you know, other uses like that.

01:02So it's more of, it's not necessarily an endorsement by him for sure, because he says he's still

01:07neutral, but it is an indication that he is certainly open to the discussion and we'll

01:13see where it goes.

01:14Last year, there was a great bipartisan collaboration to get a bill in the Senate going.

01:20It eventually fell apart because there were different factions that said, you know, we

01:24need a constitutional amendment, which requires way more votes to pass.

01:28And so it fell apart.

01:30This year, the senators seem to be kind of putting it in the House's court.

01:35If the House wants to do it, then they'll take it up when it gets over.

01:39So kind of punting it from that point of view.

01:42But I expect something in the House to happen and yeah, so the governor neutral, but sees

01:46positives and, you know, that comes on the heels of an op-ed we saw from a sponsor earlier

01:51this month, or it might've been last month, but that said, you know, hey, the voters that

01:56turned it from a Democrat state in 2020 in the presidential election and turned it to

02:00a Republican state in 2024, that's the demographics that love sports betting.

02:06Let's give them sports betting.

02:07So it's going to be a fun, fun 2025 legislative session in Georgia.