“Did you hear the news? Hillary Clinton is going to be making a significant investment in turning Georgia blue. In fact, our first new expansion staffer is heading here this week, and it would not have happened without your support.”
So begins a fund-raising email appeal yesterday from state House of Representatives Minority Leader Stacey Abrams to the Democrat faithful in anticipation of a ramped-up Peach State general election effort and an August 24th Atlanta visit by former President Bill Clinton on behalf of his presidential candidate wife Hillary.
And today — also in anticipation of a stepped-up Clinton-Kaine campaign effort in the state— there will be an announcement by the national Trump campaign of the hiring of two key staffers (including a statewide communications director). Also to be announced soon will be the opening of a Trump-Pence general election campaign office in metro Atlanta. (It is unclear why the Trump primary election headquarters near the location of the new SunTrust Park in Cobb County was ever closed.)
“We are at a crossroads in Georgia,” Abrams continues in her email exhortation. “Our work to flip (state) House seats is accelerating because of Donald Trump’s divisive, bigoted campaign. Now more than ever, we need to send a clear message: that’s not our Georgia. With your help, we can continue to elect Democrats at the House level who will push back against harmful legislation and help
pass laws that will expand opportunity for Georgians.” But even the most optimistic Democrats tell InsiderAdvantage they don’t believe their party can add more than one or two seats in the heavily-Republican state House. And the state Senate, so far, could lose just one GOP seat in November.
