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

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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