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Update payment detailsMore from The Times and The Sunday TimesTap 'Menu' and then 'Explore'Tap 'Menu' and then 'Explore'DismissAccessibility LinksSkip to contentSearchHomeUKWorldCommentBusiness & MoneySportLife & StyleCulturePuzzlesMagazinesLoginSubscribeLog inSubscribeHomeUKWorldCommentBusiness & MoneySportLife & StyleCulturePuzzlesMagazines DAVID CHARTER | DISPATCHCan Kamala Harris win over Georgia?The swing state has two Democratic senators and a Republican governor, giving both Donald Trump and the vice-president hope they can claim it in the US election“This is true excitement for Harris,” says Nancy Todd who acts as a distribution hub for election material in Lawrenceville, 30 miles north of AtlantaDavid Charter, AtlantaFriday October 18 2024, 4.50pm, The TimesThe front porch of Nancy Todd’s suburban home is crammed with Kamala Harris yard signs, T-shirts and baseball caps packaged up for campaigners who arrive around the clock to pick up merchandise to fuel the Democrats’ attempt to hold the crucial state of Georgia.In the heart of the leafy area surrounding Atlanta that was key to Joe Biden’s victory in 2020, Todd, secretary of Gwinnett county Democrats, likens the enthusiasm for Harris among party activists to the emergence of Barack Obama 16 years ago.But Obama lost twice in Georgia and there are signs of fractures in the group of voters that Harris needs to keep her hopes alive of winning the state and, with it, a path to the White House through the sun belt of southern and western swing states.Kamala Harris has revived Democratic polling since she replaced President Biden as the party’s presidential candidateZUMAPRESS.COM/THE MEGA AGENCYPolls are showing small but significant gains for Donald Trump among black men that could prove decisive in a state with America’s third-biggest black population. He lost Georgia in 2020 by only 11,779 out of five million votes, a margin of 0.23 percentage points.Both sides expect another close battle, with conflicting signs as to who is ahead. There was a record turnout this week of 843,991 in the first three days of early voting, which traditionally favours Democrats, but also improved polling for Trump, who was placed ahead by 52 per cent to 45 per cent among likely Georgia voters by a Quinnipiac University poll on Wednesday.Advertisement• Georgia results: live tracker“My phone rings all day, every day. There was a lot of support for Joe Biden going up against Trump but that was more desperation, not true excitement. This is true excitement for Harris,” said Todd, 71, who acts as a distribution hub for election material in Lawrenceville, the county seat 30 miles north of downtown Atlanta.Gwinnett is the second-largest and most diverse county in Georgia, where Biden ran up 75,841 more votes than Hillary Clinton won in 2016 and improved on her vote share from 50.2 to 58.4 per cent to seal his capture of the state. But four years of a Democrat in the White House have given some of those Biden voters cause to rethink, notably opponents of his support for Israel and others who felt better off financially during the Trump presidency.Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, easily won re-election in 2022BRETT DAVIS/AP“It’s very close,” Todd said. “I’ve gotten phone calls from Muslims saying that the people in their mosque are not going to vote … They’re not going to vote for [Trump] but they’re not going to vote for [Harris],” she said. “I got a phone call today from a younger black guy, in his thirties or forties, and he said, ‘My friends think that Trump sent them a cheque’ [the government’s pandemic stimulus payment] because it had his name on it. So they think Trump actually sent them the money.”Gwinnett county may be part of the better-off northeast Atlanta suburbs but it is not all pensioners living in large homes in smart cul-de-sacs. One reason why it has been trending towards the Democrats after backing Mitt Romney and John McCain against Obama is the arrival of younger, well-qualified Americans to work in Atlanta’s growing tech, film, logistics and manufacturing sectors. It was 90 per cent white here as recently as 1990 but that figure is 32.5 per cent, with 26.9 per cent black residents, 23 per cent Hispanic and 13.2 per cent Asian-American.Advertisement“Based on where our trends are going over a decade, the destination for Georgia is to become a blue [Democrat] state,” said Brenda Lopez Romero, chairwoman of Gwinnett county Democrats. “Whether that happens in 2024, I think that definitely by 2028 you will see Georgia solidifying more as a blue state.”Donald Trump at his rally in the northwestern Atlanta suburb of Cobb county on TuesdayKEVIN DIETSCH/GETTY IMAGESThe uncertainty over Georgia’s political status today — it has two Democratic senators but a Republican governor and state legislature — makes it a prize that the Trump campaign believes it can claim back this year.“It’s like 2016 all over again but better. The energy across the state is unbelievable,” said Morgan Ackley, the Team Trump Georgia communications director, during a break at Trump’s rally in the northwestern Atlanta suburb of Cobb county on Tuesday. Trump is due to speak in Gwinnett county next Wednesday, while Harris returns for her third Atlanta rally of the campaign on Saturday.“A lot of families are having to choose between gas for the car and putting food on the table. Everyone understands this is a pocket-book election and we were better off under Donald Trump,” Ackley said, quoting the cumulative inflation for Georgia of 21.8 per cent since 2021.Barack Obama criticised black men for considering voting for Trump at a speech in Pittsburgh last weekQUINN GLABICKI/REUTERSKevlon Galloway, one of the few black Georgians at Trump’s rally, said he voted for Biden but felt let down by the Democrats. “In 2020 I was a first-time voter, I just went along with what I heard from my family and at my school. Then I moved to California and lived in a blue state and saw the homelessness and how they spend money and it doesn’t fix anything. I saw the black community that wasn’t doing great,” said Galloway, 25. “I think we need to give the Republicans a chance.”AdvertisementAs for Obama’s recent speech in Pittsburgh berating black men for considering Trump, Galloway said: “When Obama said that, it was like the Democrat Party owns black people, like we can’t think for ourselves.”Trump’s main messages to Georgians are based around prices and border security, referring to the murder of Laken Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student who was killed in February while jogging at the University of Georgia in Athens. An illegal immigrant from Venezuela was charged with her murder and has pleaded not guilty.Harris’s main campaign message at her rally in Cobb county last month focused on restoring access to abortion after another tragic death of a young Georgian. Medical treatment for Amber Thurman, 28, suffering from sepsis after taking abortion pills, was fatally delayed by doctors allegedly concerned that they could be prosecuted under Georgia’s strict abortion laws.Trump has been critical of Kemp but the pair recently made upEPAHarris revived Democrat polling fortunes in Georgia to put back in play the sun belt route to the presidency through the swing states of Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina, which share some characteristics with sizable black or Hispanic populations. It is seen as an alternative to the main route for Harris of holding the three swing states of the rust belt — Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — part of the so-called blue wall where Trump prospered in 2016 but which Biden recaptured four years later.In March, polling for the Wall Street Journal suggested the sun belt was falling out of reach for Biden, with Trump ahead in all four states. Its polling this month found that Harris was ahead in Arizona by two points and Georgia by one point, and much closer in North Carolina at just one point behind Trump (although five points behind in Nevada). AdvertisementBut Andrew Pieper, a political professor at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, believes this route to Harris’s victory would be unlikely in the event of Trump recapturing Pennsylvania, the largest rust belt battleground. “The sun belt alternative is mathematically possible but it doesn’t really seem practically possible,” he said. “If you don’t win a state like Pennsylvania, which is more Democratic than North Carolina and Georgia and Arizona, it doesn’t seem plausible that you would end up winning Georgia or North Carolina or Arizona.”He pointed to the Democrat Josh Shapiro’s comfortable election as Pennsylvania governor in 2022, while Georgia’s Republican governor Brian Kemp easily won re-election against Stacey Abrams, a prominent Democrat, in the same year. Kemp, a moderate, was heavily criticised by Trump for certifying Biden’s victory and rejecting his attempts to persuade officials in Georgia to “find” him the votes he needed to win. The pair have recently made up and appeared together at an event.“The presidential election is really evenly divided,” Pieper said. “If I had to handicap it, I would say Trump is going to squeak through in Georgia. I don’t think we’d be talking about this if a Kemp-style Republican were running on the Republican ticket but I think there’s enough suburban women who are uncomfortable with Trump to make it a race for Democrats.”WorldRelated articlesSWING STATE SPECIALWho will win North Carolina? 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Biden won Georgia.

Trump did not gain voters after jan 6.

Can someone explain to me how Trump now owns Georgia?