Ossof and Warnock were both elected in 2021; IIRC, both of them had run-off elections, and Republicans didn’t vote because they thought the election was ‘rigged’. Biden was elected because Trump was deeply unpopular; a number of people that had voted for Trump either didn’t vote–esp. because around here it seemed like a foregone conclusion that he’d win again–or switched side in 2020.
OTOH, Kemp wins Governor elections pretty handily, and he’s not exactly a centrist Republican like, say, Mitt Romney was/is. He clobbered Stacy Abrams in 2022, 53% to 46%. That was even stronger than the first time he beat her, in 2018, 50 to 49, and in 2022 she had put in four years of trying to build a stronger ground game.
Is the state gerrymandered all to hell? Oh yeah. But given the results of the last governor’s race, I wouldn’t be looking at Georgia to break Trump.
Ossof and Warnock were both elected in 2021; IIRC, both of them had run-off elections, and Republicans didn’t vote because they thought the election was ‘rigged’. Biden was elected because Trump was deeply unpopular; a number of people that had voted for Trump either didn’t vote–esp. because around here it seemed like a foregone conclusion that he’d win again–or switched side in 2020.
OTOH, Kemp wins Governor elections pretty handily, and he’s not exactly a centrist Republican like, say, Mitt Romney was/is. He clobbered Stacy Abrams in 2022, 53% to 46%. That was even stronger than the first time he beat her, in 2018, 50 to 49, and in 2022 she had put in four years of trying to build a stronger ground game.
Is the state gerrymandered all to hell? Oh yeah. But given the results of the last governor’s race, I wouldn’t be looking at Georgia to break Trump.