Georgia Democrats believe the Minnesota governor might change the game.
Flipping Georgia Jackson County toward the Democrats is a tall order-- Donald Trump got 78% of the vote there in 2020.Len Fatica is a member of a political species that's practically extinct in deep red Statesboro, Georgia -- a rural Democrat."People are, for the most part, very friendly," Fatica, the Georgia Democratic Party's rural council chair, told ABC News. "They will sit down and have a conversation with you even if they disagree with you.
Fatica accepted the persistent criticism that Democrats left rural voters behind long ago in favor of urban populations, but he believes locals might be gradually drawn back -- a possibility suggested when Joe Biden Robin Hutcheson and her daughter Aliya are hopeful that the Harris-Walz ticket could be a step in bringing more rural Americans back to the Democrats.Lifelong Democrats Robin Hutcheson and her daughter Aliya Johnson highlighted how unusual they are, living in Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's northwest Georgia congressional district.
"The economic issue is really what's, I think, pushing people because you have not had the economic growth outside of these urban nodes," Hicks said of the rural areas.
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