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Obama calls on Georgia Democrats to vote, be optimistic the country will improve

ATLANTA — Former President Barack Obama told a crowd of Georgia Democrats in College Park Friday night that he understands times are difficult and things won’t change overnight. But if they vote for Democrats up and down the ballot, he said, the state of the country will improve.

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Thousands of Georgia Democrats pack Obama event for Abrams, Warnock

ATLANTA — A crowd of thousands of Georgia Democrats packed the Gateway Center Arena in College Park on Friday for a rally headlined by former President Barack Obama to rev up support for U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, Stacey Abrams and other candidates.

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Why Georgia’s midterm could set the stakes for 2024

ATLANTA — Georgia may be one of the nation’s most politically competitive states, but its midterm election doesn’t fit into the national narrative as a referendum of President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump.

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Man who attacked speaker’s husband Paul Pelosi facing attempted homicide charge – as it happened

Paul Pelosi was attacked at San Francisco home while House speaker was in Washington

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Obama brings Democratic star power to key Georgia U.S. Senate race

Democrats turned to former President Barack Obama on Friday to rally Georgia voters in a tight U.S. Senate race that could determine whether the party keeps control of the chamber after the upcoming midterm elections.

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2020 changed how America votes. The question now is whether those changes stick

The pandemic led to a historic rise in early voting, as 70% of the electorate cast ballots before Election Day in 2020. In 2022, it looks like more of the same.

WEKU

Georgia candidates head to party bastions amid early voting

Georgia’s top candidates are campaigning in communities dominated by their own supporters as they seek to boost turnout amid heavy early voting statewide

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Patricia Murphy: Can Georgia Democrats’ turnout machine deliver again?

ATLANTA — When Joe Biden won Georgia in 2020 and Democrats swept both Senate seats nine weeks later, a lion’s share of the credit went to the Democrats’ expansive ground game, the sophisticated, data-driven operation that was seeded for years by Stacey Abrams and her fellow progressives.

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Stacey Abrams could make history in the upcoming US midterms. Republicans are determined to stop her

Democrat Stacey Abrams rose to fame in 2018 after nearly becoming the first black woman elected governor in the United States. Four years later, she's giving it another shot. But Georgia Republicans have changed the rules.

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In final campaign stretch, Georgia candidates clash on crime

Georgia elections this year have been dominated by pocketbook struggles, rollbacks to abortion access and wavering confidence in democracy itself. But another familiar issue has elicited fireworks at recent matchups between candidates at the top of the ticket: crime.

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Expanding Medicaid is popular. That's why it's a key issue in some statewide midterms

Next month, South Dakotans will decide whether to expand Medicaid to 42,500 state residents. Democratic candidates elsewhere are making it a part of their pitch to flip GOP-held governors' offices.

WEKU

Early votes in Georgia, nation could signal high '22 turnout

Strong early voting could point to high turnout in Georgia and nationwide in the 2022 midterms

The Independent UK

Abrams offers lots of plans, but she’ll face uphill fight putting them into action

SAVANNAH, Ga. — A wholesale overhaul of how to confront systemic poverty in Georgia. A multipronged plan to combat the scourge of climate change. A set of policy changes to address the state’s growing affordable housing crisis.

Tribune News Service

Georgia is ground zero for democracy

Black voters have the power to decide the election in Georgia, which will probably decide the future of our country in some ways we can predict and others we can’t.

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Dems push Medicaid expansion for left-behind rural Georgia

Democrats want Georgia to join 38 other states in expanding the state-federal Medicaid health insurance program to cover all able-bodied adults

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Politicians seek to leverage celebrities to reach voters

Candidates in high-profile races nationwide are using celebrity appearances and endorsements as they try to reach voters

Salon

GOP is bad on abortion — and inflation

Republicans have no ideas on how to fix the economy — and what they are planning will only make things worse

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Oprah seeks to lend her appeal to Abrams in Georgia election

Oprah Winfrey is again shining her star power on Democrat Stacey Abrams’s bid for governor in Georgia

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Stacey Abrams slams ‘grotesque’ Brian Kemp for Covid failings during event with Oprah

Democrat says Medicaid expansion could give 500,000 people healthcare

The Conversation

Georgia's GOP overhauled the state's election laws in 2021 – and critics argue the target was Black voter turnout, not election fraud

In the rash of election reform laws enacted after former President Donald Trump’s false claims of fraud during the 2020 presidential election, few were tougher than SB 202 – the Election Integrity Act – passed in 2021 in Georgia, a state long known for its history of suppressing the Black…

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Oprah Winfrey to host virtual campaign event with Stacey Abrams

ATLANTA — Oprah Winfrey will campaign for Stacey Abrams on Thursday, becoming the latest high-profile surrogate working to boost the Democrat’s campaign.

The Independent UK

Georgia Republican seeks to put 2020 aside for other issues

Republican state Sen. Burt Jones is running for Georgia lieutenant governor on a platform of fighting inflation and crime and improving education

Reason

Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams Both Advocate More Government in Georgia Governor Debate

The governor favors more punitive policing, while his Democratic opponent thinks the governor should have a say in who buys what properties in the state.

The Guardian - US

Biden pledges to codify abortion rights if Democrats win midterms: ‘I’ll sign it in January’ – as it happened

President says his first move will be to codify Roe v Wade ‘once and for all’

WEKU

Suburbs delivered recent wins for Georgia Democrats. This year, they're up for grabs

Whether Democrats can hold onto the Georgia suburbs may come down to candidate quality, shifting demographics and whether voters are more discouraged by inflation or abortion restrictions.

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