In a Friday interview on CNN, Rep. Nikema Williams (D-Ga.), who’s the chair of the Georgia Democratic Party, expressed determination to see the defeat of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
“She was strong. She was personable. And she sounded like the next President of the United States,” Williams told the news network’s Wolf Blitzer, discussing Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ recent convention speech.
“And in battleground Georgia, we’re going to make that happen, because what I’ve learned on the campaign trail, we have voters in our state. We’re not a blue state or a red state, Wolf, we’re a periwinkle state. And we’ve got a lot of work to do. So what I heard was someone who is willing to fight for all Americans, fighting for our freedoms, and that’s what most people in our country actually want, someone who can unify our country, not the divisive politics of Donald Trump and his Republican Party.”
Georgia was infamously close in the 2020 presidential election, ending with a narrow win by Democratic contender Joe Biden in the race that put him in the White House. In the time since, Democrats already saw additional statewide electoral success. Both of the state’s U.S. Senators are now Democrats.
Democrats are seeking to cultivate and highlight a difference in tone between their side and Trump. The idea is to cast the party as offering hope and real-world change in contrast with doom and gloom from Trump, who casts the U.S. as a “failing nation” in his absence. He used that language during the televised June debate with Biden, who subsequently dropped out of this year’s election, though Trump has repeatedly expressed similar sentiments in other contexts.
Meanwhile, the promising poll results for Harris keep coming. As she’s taken over for Biden at the helm of the Democratic Party in this year’s election, she has turned around a Trump lead in an average of national polling from FiveThirtyEight.
