As Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence begins a two-day unity tour in Georgia, he'll face new questions about Donald Trump's immigration stance.
The GOP nominee is set to deliver what he tweeted was a "major speech on ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION" on Wednesday in Arizona. But Pence has struggled in the interim to explain the New York businessman's changing rhetoric. And he could face another test on Monday at the site of his first rally in at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry.
The middle Georgia town is an agricultural hub, and Trump's promise of a new immigration crackdown could alienate some farmers who fear a labor shortage if they can't rely on undocumented workers.
Pence, meanwhile, said on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday that Trump's immigration platform hadn't changed since the primaries, even though Trump suggested last week he may not follow through with his plan to remove the 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.
"Nothing has changed about Donald Trump's position on dealing with immigration," the Indiana governor said.
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That breeze you felt over the weekend might have been a collective sigh of relief from Georgia policymakers that Alabama's plans for a lottery were once again scuttled.
A chunk of the Georgia Lottery's revenue comes from residents across the state line in Alabama, and state officials were closely watching Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley's latest effort to launch a lottery to boost the state's flailing budget. When a vote to allow a referendum on the lottery next door failed, there were muffled cheers from Georgians.
Ten percent of the net revenue would have gone to education. One percent was earmarked for volunteer fire departments.
"I just can't believe that the Legislature would not allow the people of the state of Alabama to vote on this issue. I just believe that the Legislature needs to trust the people more," Bentley said.
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Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp turned down an offer from the federal government to help prevent hackers from manipulating the November election.
The Republican told Politico why in an interview that accused President Barack Obama's administration of playing up warnings over cyberthreats.
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Still, Kemp accused the news media and the federal bureaucracy of raising unwarranted fears of election cyberattacks at the worst possible time.
"It would have been nice for us to have been brought into this situation beforehand to get the perspective," he said, "because quite honestly, all this did was help blow a lot of things out of proportion, and now every election official across the country's having to deal with these issues in the middle of a presidential election."
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A group of 15 Georgia military veterans released an open letter to Georgia voters Monday that casts Donald Trump as "dangerously clueless" and a threat to the U.S. Constitution.
Here's a snippet of the letter, distributed by VoteVets.org, a national veterans organization that opposes Trump:
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