VP Kamala Harris to return to Atlanta as she campaigns to be president

ATLANTA — The revised version of the 2024 Presidential Election will land in Atlanta on Tuesday when presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris visits what she hopes will be a competitive state.

Publish Date: Thursday 25th July 2024
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ATLANTA — The revised version of the 2024 Presidential Election will land in Atlanta on Tuesday when presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris visits what she hopes will be a competitive state.

Georgia flipped just enough in 2020 to help get Joe Biden elected. His running mate is visiting next week to try to keep it that way this year.

Harris has appeared in Georgia repeatedly -- talking up environmental policy, decrying gun violence and sometimes raising campaign money.

RELATED: Georgia poll: Harris eclipses Biden but doesn't pass Trump

But when she visits next week, it’ll be her first as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.

"Georgia can comfortably say that our vote matters and we are a true battleground," said state Sen. Jason Estevez (D-Atlanta), a high-profile Harris booster, on Thursday.

Georgia was a battleground state in 2020 in which Joe Biden barely beat Donald Trump. Two years later, Republicans came back with Brian Kemp at the top of the ticket – turning back a list of well-funded Democrats, with the exception of U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock.

A poll released this week indicated with Harris at the top of the ticket – Georgia is once again a tossup in the presidential race against Republican Donald Trump.

"I predict a historic turnout that would elect her as the first woman president of the United States of America," said DeKalb CEO Michael Thurmond at a rally on Wednesday.

RELATED: Kamala Harris zeroes in on four potential VP candidates for her 2024 campaign

Republicans say despite Trump’s loss in Georgia in 2020, the state still leans Republican and is poised to do so again in November.

Meanwhile, Democrats say a win for Harris this November will require a massive effort that they are preparing for.

"We are already organizing. People are already knocking on doors. We have hundreds of volunteers across the state already activated on behalf of Vice President Harris," Estevez said.

December 22, 2024

Story attribution: Doug Richards
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