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Democrats in Georgia hope two of the party’s most famous faces in Peach, Senators Stacey Abrams and Rafael Warnock, will repeat their previous success in the upcoming November midterm elections.
In 2018, Abrams swept the Democratic gubernatorial primary and finished second in the general election, less than two points behind Republican Brian Kemp.
Two years later, Joe Biden became the first Democratic presidential candidate to win Georgia in nearly 30 years, and both Democratic Senators Warnock and John Ossoff were elected to the U.S. Senate the following month.
Now, Abrams and Warnock have won Democratic votes together for the first time as the Democrats look to replicate that success in tough midterm election conditions. The results will again help determine the balance of power in Washington and whether Republicans will maintain control in state governments.
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“Georgia is a blue state,” party leader Nikema Williams said Saturday at the state convention in Columbus. “Together, we will continue to defy the odds, turn blue cycle after cycle, and propel our state forward to greater heights.”
But Williams and colleagues admit that 2022 will not be a simple repeat of the last two cycles.
In his gubernatorial rematch against Brian Kemp, Abrams is fighting a well-placed incumbent rather than the lesser-known Republican secretary of state.
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Warnock is no longer a political newcomer, trying to differentiate himself from the unpopular president who once campaigned for him. This is the point challenger Herschel Walker is trying to insist on by criticizing Warnock as the rubber stamp of the White House.
In 2018, Kemp edged Abrams with 55,000 out of nearly 4 million votes. Biden beat Trump with less than 12,000 out of 5 million votes. About 4.5 million Georgians voted in the simultaneous Senate runoff two months later. Warnock and Ossoff won by 2 and 1.2 percentage points respectively.
Democrats want November voter numbers to be at least as high as they were on January 5, 2021.
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Republican Senator Ted Cruz recently told Fox News Digital that Republican voter turnout was “dropping” in Georgia’s 2021 Senate special election and that’s why the seat turned blue. His two Democratic senators from Georgia have arrived to rubber stamp the Democratic Party’s angry socialist caucuses. “
“It’s not easy for a Democratic senator to try to run for re-election when the president is the front-runner in -20 or -30 states,” the senator said, adding that with Warnock’s candidacy, Georgia has become a “major candidate.” He added that he believes it is a good pick-up opportunity. Further left than his state temperament.
The Associated Press contributed to this report