Battleground: Could Atlanta debate change voters' minds in swing state Georgia?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : "I think it could have an effect both in Georgia, [and] everywhere, if one of two things happens: either Biden has some kind of 'senior moment' and it's really obvious ... or Trump appears sort of unpresidential, argumentative and yelling," M.V. "Trey" Hood III, the director of the Survey Research Center at UGA, told The Center Square.
52% : Trump wrote on his social media platform on Monday.
51% : Currently, Trump leads Biden by a margin of 5 percentage points in the state, according to a June poll by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
47% : "Georgia voted for Trump in 2016's election and Biden in 2020, with the later result being widely attributed to suburban voters in Metropolitan Atlanta - particularly, the counties of Gwinnett, Cobb, Henry, and DeKalb - voting for Biden.
42% : Biden and Trump have debated each other twice before, during 2020's election, which were watched in real time by 73 million and 62 million Americans, respectively, according to Pew Research.
42% : "Hood's observation about behavior echoes the first presidential debate of 2020, when Biden and Trump faced off in an event moderated by then-Fox News anchor Chris Wallace.
19% : The event was widely criticized after Trump repeatedly interrupted Biden and challenged Wallace's moderating, with experts claiming that his performance hurt his outreach to suburban voters.
16% : Biden, who is currently 81 years old, has made several public gaffes in office and has been attacked by Trump, 78, about his mental fitness to participate in the debate.

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