ATLANTA—On Oct. 19, Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally just south of Atlanta. Thousands turned out for the event, including many black voters from the area—voters crucial to Harris’s aspirations to hold onto the Peach State.
In 2020, candidate Joe Biden won Georgia by a paper-thin 0.23-point margin, or just over 11,000 votes.
The narrow victory was something of an upset in a state that had voted for Republicans in every presidential contest since 1992.
Biden’s slim 2020 victory was due in large part to high black voter turnout in Fulton, DeKalb, and Clayton counties, located in and around the city center of Atlanta, boosted by former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’s voter turnout machine….