In Georgia, Democrats hope to win a state they flipped in 2020. Do Republicans have the edge?

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69% : In 2012, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney won Georgia by 8 percentage points; in 2016, Trump won by 5 percentage points.
50% : With turnout among Black voters, who make up a third of Georgia's population and form the backbone of the state's Democratic Party, making up just 26% of the early vote, some Republicans are confident Trump will prevail on election day.
49% : This year, the strongest surge in voter turnout in Georgia isn't in the Democratic bastions of metro Atlanta, but in rural red counties, such as Pickens County, a North Georgia county that voted 82% for Trump in 2020 and has seen 157% more early voters this year.
42% : "Asked if voters consider Trump a better candidate than they did in 2020, Robinson said he thought many white college-educated Republicans in Georgia who had abandoned the GOP in the Trump era had drifted back at the same time as Republicans were attracting more Black and Latino men.
40% : "Others said they were concerned that Trump had won over a large number of voters across rural Georgia.
34% : Some voters in Atlanta are confident of a Harris victory even as polls show Trump ahead in Georgia by about 1.5 percentage points, well within the margin of error.
34% : "Trump's on a pathway to winning Georgia," said Brian Robinson, a GOP strategist and former communications director for former Gov. Nathan Deal.
24% : But although women have gravitated away from Trump after his Supreme Court appointees helped overturn Roe vs. Wade in 2022, the Trump campaign is trying to make a last-ditch appeal to Georgia women.
21% : "Harris described Trump, who will hold a rally Sunday in Macon, Ga., as "increasingly unstable" and "out for unchecked power.

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