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Former Vice President Kamala Harris energizes canvassers in Macon as her first stop in Georgia: “I know for many of us over the last year and a half, it’s been difficult,” she told the crowd. “Well here’s the thing: that moment is over.” #gapol
The number of registered AAPI voters in Georgia has doubled in the past decade — now making up 6% of the state's total. In the final stretch ahead of the consequential midterm elections, organizers are working to keep that momentum going. #gapol ajc.com/politics/2026/10/aap…
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This is the line ahead of the Obama/ Ossoff/ Bottoms rally. I’ve never seen a line this long for any Democratic event in Georgia in 20 years of doing this.
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Former President Barack Obama stormed back into Georgia’s political fray Wednesday with blistering attacks on President Donald Trump, casting next week’s midterm election as a “last, best chance” to rein in his power.
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Here’s a look at the setup inside the rally. Also a special performer on the schedule👀 #gapol
I’m in Morrow for Georgia Democrats’ rally with former President Obama and there’s some counter-messaging above. A plane flies overhead with an American flag and the word “MAGA.” #gapol
Rick Jackson on the state of the race in the final stretch: “I’m very realistic. This is a very tight race. I mean, it’s tied at best right now…If people in rural Ga. and other places think ‘oh well this is going to be easy’ and they don’t show up we’re going to lose.” #gapol
NOW: “I know most of you have done your part, and we've got to make sure that we don't leave anybody on the sidelines….Look, it's a tough environment, we might as well own that,” Gov. Brian Kemp urges GOP voters to turn out while stumping for Rick Jackson. #gapol
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Keisha Lance Bottoms, speaking to a large group of AAPI voters in Alpharetta, reminds them of Rick Jackson’s primary ads promising struck immigration enforcement. “He ran ads saying you'll be deported or departed.”
NOW: Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says the Democratic Governors Association is throwing another $5 million at Keisha Lance Bottoms’ bid for governor in the final stretch ahead of the election. #gapol
Democrats are keeping abortion front and center in top-ticket races ahead of the midterms. But vulnerable Republican state legislators are also being targetted as part of $1 million in spending by Planned Parenthood in Georgia this cycle. ajc.com/politics/2026/10/why… #gapol
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NEW @ajc Georgia governor’s poll results:
Rick Jackson: 46%
Keisha Lance Bottoms: 45%
- 18% of independents are still undecided.
- UGA polled 1,000 likely voters with live calls, MOE: 3.1%.
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Alvin Kendall gave the former Atlanta mayor her first job as a lawyer. Rebuilding his life after a federal conviction, he became a key figure inside City Hall during her term. #gapol
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Obama to headline Atlanta rally for Bottoms and Ossoff bit.ly/4zFnE95
U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff comes out early urging voters turn out for Keisha Lance Bottoms and other Democrats down the ballot: “Some people just happen to live in times and in places where history is made, and this year. once again, Georgia, that's us,” Ossoff said. #gapol
“Georgia now the bigot wants a promotion, but this year will end his political career instead,” Ossoff takes after his Republican opponent Congressman Mike Collins. #gapol
“Mike is like a scandal piñata,” Ossoff says. “Every time you shake him misdeeds fall out.” #gapol
“(Trump) told us that he wants us to imagine that he is on the ballot,” Keisha Lance Bottoms says in Cobb County. “Well, Georgia, we heard him loud and clear. We have already broken turnout records in this day and year.” #gapol
“(Jackson) is spending millions of dollars trying to hold on to the billions that he's making off the taxpayers of Georgia,” Bottoms says of her Republican opponent. “Never in the history of this state has so much money been spent to slander one candidate and one family.” #gapol
