Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov.
Tim Walz will travel across South Georgia on Wednesday, the pair’s second bus tour in two weeks and the first burst of campaigning since the Democratic National Convention ended last Thursday.
The tour, which will end with a Harris rally in Savannah on Thursday, is the campaign’s latest effort to compete in Georgia, which has become a particularly critical battleground in the month since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race.
It also reflects Harris’s effort to go beyond large urban areas to court votes in suburban and rural communities, a strategy that highlights the growing importance of boosting turnout in Democratic strongholds while holding down margins in traditionally Republican counties, said Andra Gillespie, a political science professor at Emory University in Atlanta.
Harris will need the support of some moderate and conservative voters to win the state of Georgia, where Republicans outnumber Democrats, Gillespie said.
Going on a bus tour outside of Atlanta’s metropolitan area is one way to try to reach some of those voters, she said.
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@PartisanAvaDemocrat2yrs2Y
I live in Georgia. I had been hoping Harris/Walz would do this. I hope they hit the rural areas near some of the smaller Georgia cities. There are lots of black voters in southwest Georgia, especially in Albany and Valdosta, who would be super motivated if Harris/Walz were to rally there. Also, there are liberal white entrepreneurs who have started craft food and beer companies, who would love to have Harris/Walz see how they are trying to change rural Georgia.
@Debat3LapwingDemocrat2yrs2Y
GA and TX are in a neck and neck battle to lead the nation in voter suppression, and prohibit the execution of free and fair elections. The battle to beat blacks and Hispanics into submission continues unabated, and white supremacy is the goal.
@GoofyBobolinkSocialist2yrs2Y
I hope both Obamas will go to Georgia colleges and cities and get the vote out. We can't let the intimidation and voter suppression in Georgia win. We need young Georgians to come out and VOTE!
@UniqueM4jorityGreen2yrs2Y
We have lived down here in Beaufort County South Carolina, triangulated between Savannah, Hilton Head and Charleston for over twenty years. As left-of-center independents we have always been in an extreme minority down here and, despite SC still being ruby red, Nikki beat the steaming orange stool in the republican primary in our district. We are Still decades away from going purple but Georgia just might tip toward sanity once again, based on my observation of the extremely muted support for the beached blond fecal mouthed felon.
She’s very much in play in Georgia. The sane people in Georgia haven’t forgotten what trump did here, even if our governor did. I have committed to voting nothing but blue until maga and trump have been vanquished by the gop party.
@ThriftySparrowDemocrat2yrs2Y
The gop party here causes such unrest they want everyone out, I really think it should be abolished here for the Rome they played in breaking into our voting machines in coffee city.
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