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Within hours of Georgia voters’ November decision to make Joe Biden the first Democratic president to win the state since 1992, a national narrative emerged that the suburbs – imagined as mostly white areas around Atlanta – would be key in the pending twin Senate runoffs. Emory political scientist Bernard Fraga had been drafting a different story. It focused not only on his work as a voting behavior expert but also on his lived experience as one of the transplants behind the demographic shift in the state and the suburbs in question. “Elections in Georgia are inseparable from race and...

New Georgia runoffs data finds that more Black voters than usual came out. Trump voters stayed home. Bernard L. Fraga, Zachary Peskowitz, James Szewczyk Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff, left, and Raphael G. Warnock bump elbows onstage during a rally with Joe Biden in Atlanta. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images) This month, Georgia voters sent two Democrats to the U.S. Senate after runoff elections, breaking with a decades-long history of electing Republicans. Raphael G. Warnock and Jon Ossoff’s victories were particularly surprising, since Republicans usually have an ad...

Progressives invested in Georgia's Latino communities. Voter turnout shattered expectations. Suzanne Gamboa © Provided by NBC News Days before the Senate runoffs in Georgia this month, a canvasser with the Latino progressive political group Mijente knocked on the door of an 80-year-old man who didn’t know there was an election or who was running. The man asked the canvasser to talk to him about who was best for the community, and that’s who would get his vote, said Tania Unzueta Carrasco, political director for Mijente, who related the story told to her by a canvasser. �...

Save this story for later. On Monday night, Richard Steele, a chaplain with the sheriff’s office in Whitfield County, Georgia, wandered around the parking lot of the Dalton Mall, looking for a mask that he could wear. He was on his way to a “Save the Senate” rally for the Republican candidates David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, headlined by Donald Trump. The campaigns had reportedly chosen Dalton for the rally because early voting in the surrounding area, which is deep red and largely rural, was relatively low. Steele didn’t think that Loeffler or Perdue stood much of a chance against t...

Do his job effectively and abides by the constitution. if he does that, not only will his colleagues accept him and the majority of the american people. it will be ugly between now and election day. you have the worst ads and the worst dialogue back and forth. until enough to make you tune it. but you can't. it's too important. >> neil: and finally, is this going to move the needle on election day? in other words, the popular consensus was always risky if you reminded me that it would help democrats if it looked like he was going to make it to the court. help republicans if it looked like he w...