Why Trump, Biden campaigns are targeting Black voters in Macon. Is it working?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : States that border Georgia, like South Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama, aren't considered swing states because they consistently lean toward the same political party.
41% : Trump has held a narrow polling lead leading up to the 2024 election, according to a poll in May by FiveThirtyEight.
31% : Now, Biden and Trump are in a tight race in the newly-purple state.
30% : "For Trump, his ads are probably more targeted toward trying to depress Black turnout, or to say there's not a difference between them so why bother voting for either," Lawrence said.
26% : The ad responded, "It's why Trump stood with violent white supremacists, warned of a blood bath if he loses the next election, and if he is president again, vowed to be a dictator who wants revenge on his enemies.
20% : "Of course I hate these people," Trump said of the teens during a 1989 interview with Larry King.
18% : "Biden's stark claims about Trump could be more about mobilizing voters, and less about gaining a vote, Lawrence said.
13% : Biden's recent ad replayed a clip of Trump condemning the "Central Park Five," a term often used to refer to five Black teenagers were wrongly convicted of sexually abusing a woman in New York.
7% : "Whereas for Biden, it's more about emphasizing the contrast between them, that Trump has this fairly lengthy history of questionable statements."

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