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Georgia s Lt Governor won t run again after taking on Trump
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Georgia s Lt Governor won t run again after taking on Trump
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Georgia Today; I m Steve Fennessy. 2020 was an election year that saw record turnout by men and women from both parties, but census data show more women eligible to vote did. They turned out in greater numbers nationwide than men did last year. And the women s vote was decisive in helping Joe Biden capture the White House, and in pushing Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock over the finish line in the tight Senate runoffs. Former gubernatorial candidate turned voting-rights activist Stacey Abrams claims credit for helping to boost Black voter turnout across the state.
Stacey Abrams: My dad was arrested at the age of 14 for registering Black people to vote during Jim Crow. Fighting for the right to vote is in my bones because I know that voting is how we get the change we need.
An internal poll commissioned by Jones’s campaign and conducted by the GOP firm Remington Research Group shows Kemp with a narrow 39 percent to 35 percent lead over Jones among likely Republican primary voters, putting him just slightly outside the survey’s 3 percentage point margin of error.
There are signs that Jones has room to grow his support further. Twenty-six percent of respondents said they are still undecided in the race, and overall, 55 percent said they are open to considering another candidate, compared to 35 percent who are committed to backing Kemp’s reelection in 2022.
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Jones, a former state representative and Democrat who joined the GOP in January, launched his bid for governor last month, becoming the first and only prominent Republican so far to challenge Kemp.
Bee Nguyen, Georgia Democrat, Enters Race for Secretary of State
Ms. Nguyen, the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, is the first major Democrat to announce a bid for the seat held by Brad Raffensperger, the Republican who defied former President Donald Trump.
State Representative Bee Nguyen has helped lead the fight against Republican-backed bills that restrict voting rights in Georgia.Credit.Nicole Craine for The New York Times
May 4, 2021, 6:00 a.m. ET
ATLANTA Next year’s secretary of state election in Georgia was already shaping up to be a tense and dramatic fight: the incumbent, Brad Raffensperger who enraged former President Donald J. Trump for refusing to overturn the state’s election results is facing a primary challenge from a Trump-endorsed fellow Republican, Representative Jody Hice.
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