In one affluent Atlanta suburb, Biden and Trump work to win over wary Georgia voters

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From Atlanta public radio station WABE via the Associated Press, June 24, 2024 -
https://www.wabe.org/in-one-affluent-atlanta-suburb-biden-and-trump-work-to-win-over-wary-georgia-voters/


Suzanne Brown waves flags for Donald Trump before a ceremony to open his first Georgia campaign office, Thursday, June 13, 2024, in Fayetteville, Ga. Democratic President Joe Biden and former Republican President Donald Trump are working to win over Georgia voters ahead of the pair's first 2024 debate scheduled for Thursday, June 27, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will meet for their first general election debate Thursday in Georgia, the battleground that yielded the closest 2020 margin of any state and became the epicenter of Trump’s efforts to overturn Biden’s election.

Now, in their rematch, Georgia will test which man can best assemble a winning coalition despite their respective weaknesses. Each must persuade grumpy voters in places like Fayette County, a suburb south of Atlanta, that they’re less frightening than the alternative.

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One of Georgia’s richest counties, Fayette has long housed retirees and Delta Air Lines workers seeking homes near Atlanta’s airport. Now it’s also a bastion of Georgia’s state-subsidized movie industry. At the Trillith development, a rapidly growing high-end town and movie studio, workers can be overheard discussing the latest Captain America movie being filmed there.

Like other Atlanta suburbs, the 120,000-resident county has been angling left. Democrats haven’t yet deposed Fayette’s Republican majority, but they got close in December 2022, when Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock won 49.5% of Fayette’s votes in defeating Republican Herschel Walker.

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This is an interesting story for many reasons. In a close election where votes from the entire state matter, Biden has a chance to erode Trump's vote total in Fayette County. It's a county Trump will still probably win, but let's hope the college-educated citizens there, as well as disaffected Trump 2020 voters, help Biden statewide.