“I think Georgia is the biggest test for Donald Trump’s influence in the entire nation,” says political reporter Greg Bluestein, who chats with The Daily Beast about his new book and offers some context for where the state may be headed in 2022 and 2024.
Early voting is underway in Georgia, and primary election day is May 24.
Stacey Abrams ran for governor of Georgia in 2018 and lost by 55,000 votes. If the main levers that shift elections over time are demographics, turnout, and party affiliation, what has changed in Georgia over the last four years? Some of it was the candidates. Joe Biden stuck to his message, and the Senate candidates stuck to their message. The electorate changed. And Trump was a big factor. Kelly Loeffler, who lost in the runoff to Warnock, had a database with tens of thousands of names that her campaign classified as “GOP, not voting.” No matter how much they appealed to those voters, they bought the lies about election fraud and did not vote in the runoff.
Stacey Abrams is more invested in issues than she is identity politics. She can go into rural counties with largely the same message she has in Atlanta. Has that been a net plus for her? He’s still facing a lot of the Trump dynamics we saw in 2020. Donald Trump blames Kemp for his election defeat; he says Kemp didn’t do enough to illegally overturn the election. Donald Trump wanted Brian Kemp to call a special session of the legislature to refuse to certify the election in Georgia and refuse to sign the paperwork validating the election in Georgia.I saw people jumping over each other at a recent rally just to get a closer look [at Herschel Walker].
Herschel Walker will likely be the Republican nominee to face Sen. Raphael Warnock in the Senate race. How’s his campaign going?
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