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Politically Georgia: Bold predictions for 2023

FIILE — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks to reporters in Johns Creek, Ga. on May 24, 2022. Raffensperger is calling for Georgia’s legislature to end the use of runoff contests during general elections, citing the added strain on poll workers and his department. (Audra Melton/The New York Times)
FIILE — Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks to reporters in Johns Creek, Ga. on May 24, 2022. Raffensperger is calling for Georgia’s legislature to end the use of runoff contests during general elections, citing the added strain on poll workers and his department. (Audra Melton/The New York Times)
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Jan 4, 2023

Georgia legislators won’t eliminate the runoff system. Atlanta will land the Democratic National Convention. And Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will seek criminal charges against former President Donald Trump.

Those were some of the predictions that Politically Georgia hosts Greg Bluestein and Patricia Murphy agreed on for the year ahead. But there was plenty the disagreed upon, too.

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About the Authors

Greg Bluestein is the Atlanta Journal Constitution's chief political reporter.

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Patricia Murphy is the AJC's senior political columnist. She was previously a nationally syndicated columnist for CQ Roll Call, national political reporter for the Daily Beast and Politics Daily, and wrote for The Washington Post and Garden & Gun. She graduated from Vanderbilt and holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

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