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WATCH LIVE: Obama set to campaign for Stacey Abrams at Morehouse

By Raisa Habersham
Nov 2, 2018

Former President Barack Obama will headline an event Friday evening on Morehouse College's campus for Democrat Stacey Abrams, who is in a neck-and-neck race against Republican Brian Kemp for governor.

The event will be held at Forbes Arena and doors open at 5 p.m. The program will start soon after.

Tickets for the event sold out quickly as lines snaked around the arena, which has a capacity of 6,000.

Kemp is countering with his own heavyweight supporter: President Donald Trump will hold a rally for him in Macon on Sunday at 4 p.m.

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Raisa Habersham is the Intown Atlanta hyperlocal reporter for The Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

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