Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is set to campaign with Republican Brian Kemp and other down-ticket candidates on Monday in vote-rich Cobb County, one of the few Georgia counties that he carried during his 2016 run for president.
Rubio will appear with Kemp and Geoff Duncan, the GOP nominee for lieutenant governor, at 9:45 on Monday at the Goldbergs in the Battery. He’ll follow that trip with a 10:45 get-out-the-vote rally with candidates at the Cobb GOP headquarters in Marietta.
It’s one of the biggest suburban events on the books for Kemp, who faces Democrat Stacey Abrams in the Nov. 6 race for governor. Although his campaign headquarters is in Atlanta, many of Kemp’s campaign-trail appearances have been in deep-red territory outside the metro area.
The event also offers Duncan a chance for more media attention for his race for Georgia’s No. 2 office against Democrat Sarah Riggs Amico, who has launched her own bus tour that sometimes overlaps with Abrams’ stops.
Rubio, who was an early supporter of Duncan, visited Georgia several times in the runup to the 2016 vote. He lined up a youngish crew of up-and-coming state lawmakers to back his campaign, and finished in second-place in the popular vote in Georgia's GOP primary behind Donald Trump.
He fared particularly well in Democratic-leaning parts of Georgia, winning a plurality of Cobb, DeKalb and Fulton counties – as well as Kemp's native Athens-Clarke County.
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