As attempted assassination, a last-minute switch of candidates, vice presidential picks and party conventions — the 2024 race for president is already like nothing the nation has seen, and Georgia voters are taking notice.
Throughout the year, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has sent reporters to five archetypical counties to listen to Georgia voters. Three were nearly evenly divided in the 2020 election, another went to Biden and another for Trump, both in lopsided results.
This month, reporters found voters who are starting to make up their minds while others have further hardened their opinions.
In Chatham County, a supporter of former President Donald Trump thinks that recent events will ensure that voters turn out in record numbers for his candidate, while Democrats in ruby red Banks County are planting their flag for Vice President Kamala Harris and her newly chosen running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
In Peach County, a resolute Trump supporter fears civil war if his candidate doesn’t win. A swing voter in Clayton County thinks Harris has the vision to take America forward, rather than back. And in Washington County, a retired doctor has made his pick, but given the choices, he isn’t hollering about it.
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