Are we on our way to another Democratic presidential election victory in Georgia?
New polling of registered Georgia voters circulated by Fox News finds a lead of two percentage points for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris over Republican pick Donald Trump. Harris’ leading margin was the same both with and without presidential candidates from outside the major political parties also named for poll participants.
Perhaps the most high-profile of those candidates in this year’s electoral cycle, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., recently ended his campaign, endorsing Trump. Members of Robert’s famous political family, including a group of his siblings, strongly condemned his decision, reaffirming their own support for Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Robert dropped out early enough that he was not included in this new polling, which was conducted by Beacon Research and Shaw & Company Research from August 23 through the twenty-sixth.
In the 2020 presidential race, nationally successful Democratic contender Joe Biden also won Georgia — the first time that a Democrat won the state in a presidential contest’s general election since 1992. Since then, Georgians also sent two Democrats to the U.S. Senate, trouncing Trump-backed Republican candidate Herschel Walker most recently. The victor in that election was Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock, an Atlanta pastor. Warnock serves at the same church where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a pastor in the 1960s.
Meanwhile, Harris was heading back to Georgia after the Democratic National Convention held last week in Chicago, where party delegates formalized — again — the Democrats’ general election nod for Harris (and Walz). The Democratic ticket took a bus tour in southeastern Georgia on Wednesday, and there was a campaign rally set for Thursday in Savannah, Georgia. The Harris campaign already stopped by Georgia very soon after she took over for Biden following his withdrawal from this year’s election, rallying in Atlanta.
