Stacey Abrams helped swing Georgia for the Democrats. So why is she trailing?

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Georgia in focus: Hailed as architect of Georgia’s political transformation, Abrams is still an underdog in her rematch with Republican Brian Kemp for reasons that make Democrats nervous

, it concluded that her path to victory was “much narrower”.

“Every success I’ve ever had in politics has been about building the electorate I need – building the electorate we should have, which is an electorate that’s much more reflective of the state,” Abrams said during an interview at a coffee shop inGeorgia is nearly evenly divided between the parties, and in many ways, Abrams and Kemp embody the dueling factions of the state’s polarized electorate.

Republican Brian Kemp at a rally in Alpharetta, Georgia last week, as an Abrams supporter holds up a sign.Canvassers with the New Georgia Project are pounding the pavement to register and turn out voters this cycle. Their goal is to knock on at least 2m doors by election day.Ufot said it has already proven effective by paving the way for Biden’s victory in 2020 and the election of two Democratic senators in 2021, which delivered the party control of the chamber.

But it may be making it harder for Abrams to attract the vanishingly thin slice of independent and moderate Republican voters whose discomfort with Trump pushed them toward Democrats in recent elections. A Marist Pollthat 11% of Georgians who voted for Biden in 2020 plan to back Kemp for governor, while just 5% of Trump voters favor Abrams.

 

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