In the crucially important state of Georgia, women in particular have voted enthusiastically in advance.
ATLANTA Soon to be eighty With Tina Maddox have mixed feelings about the Democratic presidential candidate Terrible Harris towards.
Maddox thinks Harris did well in the Republican debate Donald Trump against. At the same time, Maddox would like Harris to be better able to articulate what he intends to do as president.
But the decision has to be made, because Maddox has arrived today at the library in the Atlanta suburb to vote.
– I just have to take the risk. Harris is still better than Trump, Maddox says.
Maddox says he is aware that Trump might be a better option for his own finances. That’s why he voted for Trump in the last election in 2020.
– But I can’t do that anymore. He [Trump] is not a good person and I can’t stand him representing us in the world, says Maddox.
Her friends are also going to vote for Harris Diane Barber80, for whom the most important theme of the election is women’s right to health care.
Barber has voted for Democrats before. Former Trump voters like Tina Maddox, on the other hand, are the Harris campaign’s dream — and best hope for winning the election.
In the freshest of all polls show Trump leading Harris by a slim margin in Georgia. The difference is within the margin of error.
The Democrats hope that in these elections the influence of women on the election result would be more significant than the final conclusions of the opinion polls. So far, it doesn’t seem like it.
Almost 40 percent of all eligible voters in Georgia had already cast early ballots by Monday evening. About 55 percent of those who voted were women. It is very close to the numbers for the 2020 election, when 56 percent of those who voted in advance were women.
Another group Harris’ campaign is trying to appeal to in the election is moderate Republican voters.
Converting them may be easier in Georgia than in other states, in part because of the events that followed the last election.
In 2020, Trump lost the state of Georgia by only about 12,000 votes. After the election, Trump called the Secretary of State of Georgia, and demanded that he find more votes for himself in order to reverse the election result.
Finnish researcher living in Atlanta Marko Maunula says that as a result of the last election, the Republican Party in Georgia is divided. The state is currently run by Republicans, who represent the moderate wing of the party.
According to him, it is the most significant election in the United States since 1860, when Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election before the start of the American Civil War.
Georgia has reserved also to the fact that Trump would try to dispute the election result if necessary.
Election security and confirmation are guaranteed by the same people as in 2020. They are the Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the director of this agency Gabriel Sterlingwho already once blocked Trump’s attempts to reverse the election result. Both men are Republicans.
However, it may very well be that Trump has no need to delay the election result at all in Georgia, where the result may well be clear already on election night.
In his campaign, Trump has tried to appeal above all to people who don’t usually vote. In 2020, about a third of the state’s eligible voters did not vote, so there is plenty of room for growth.