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Politically Georgia: Can Republicans gain ground in Atlanta’s suburbs?

September 27, 2022 Alpharetta - Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (left) and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin greet supporters during a Get Out the Vote Rally for at Town Green Fountain in Alpharetta on Tuesday, September 27, 2022. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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September 27, 2022 Alpharetta - Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (left) and Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin greet supporters during a Get Out the Vote Rally for at Town Green Fountain in Alpharetta on Tuesday, September 27, 2022. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
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Sept 28, 2022

Politically Georgia hosts Greg Bluestein and Patricia Murphy discuss how Gov. Brian Kemp and other Republicans are trying to expand the electoral map from deep-red rural areas to the Atlanta suburbs.

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Greg Bluestein is the Atlanta Journal Constitution's chief political reporter. He is also an author, TV analyst and co-host of the Politically Georgia podcast.

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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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