Atlanta suburbs defy a national trend, shifting left

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61% : Trump also did particularly well in the more rural areas south of Atlanta.
55% : Fayette County, which Democrats hoped to flip, shifted nearly 4 points left, though Trump still won it by about 3 points.
55% : Even as Atlanta's suburbs shifted toward the Democrats, Trump actually gained ground in the city itself.
55% : Rural Webster County saw a double-digit swing toward Trump from 2020, backing him by 19 points this year.
50% : In Georgia, as in the other six battlegrounds he won, Trump made gains with most voter groups regardless of where they lived.
49% : The suburbs of Atlanta saw some of the largest swings in her direction this year, though they were not enough to counter his modest gains in the city itself and larger shifts in the rural areas of the state toward Trump.
49% : States like New York and New Jersey saw the largest shifts toward Trump, with New York moving rightward by double digits.
45% : Cobb County voted only 0.27 points to the left compared with its 2020 vote, while Gwinnett County narrowly shifted to Trump by less than two points.
42% : Four years earlier, Trump carried the county by less than eight percentage points.
39% : Charleston County, South Carolina shifted more than seven points to Trump.
31% : Georgia was a key battleground in the race between Trump and Harris that ultimately backed Trump by about 2.2 percentage points with about 99 percent reporting, according to CNN.

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